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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!