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What an adorable example of citogenesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telautograph&oldid=1005965933#cite_note-6 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.

• Rexxar 5y ago
  I'm surprised they don't have a bot that check circular references inside Wikipedia.
• nanna 5y ago
  Wait, why?
  • JadeNB 5y ago
    I think the idea is that the authority for the claim that Wikipedia is making is Wikipedia itself; citations "spontaneously generate", as it were: > The Allpoint Pen is currently in use and has been used to register tens of thousands of voters in the United States, and the Long Pen, an invention conceived of by writer Margaret Atwood, is used by authors to sign their books at a distance.[6] > [6] "LongPen", Wikipedia, 2019-10-15, retrieved 2020-05-08
    • nanna 5y ago
      Seems like a bit of a harsh critique to bring all the way out here on hn. Sure it references another Wikipedia page, but on that page external references to the same claim are provided. 'Allpoint pen' could just be internally linked to the relevant Wikipedia page, and the relevant citation brought to the telautograph page? Gp could just fix this on Wikipedia themselves...
      • JadeNB 5y ago
        I didn't mean to endorse the claim, just to explain what I took it to mean.
        • nanna 5y ago
          Totally appreciate that!
• renewiltord 5y ago
  That’s not citogenesis. Citogenesis requires laundering through the external world. Just fix the cite to an internal link. This doesn’t need to be “adorable”. It’s literally a self-fixable bug that takes less time to fix than to make this comment. Always confuses me why people make “Behold! A problem!” posts when the problem itself is fixable in less text than that.