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Here is a famous example of such an article which looked great, appeared to have sources, and even won distinction as a "Good Article": "After a half-decade, m

• akolbe 5y ago
  And on Twitter just yesterday, someone tweeted a confession https://twitter.com/aobate/status/1466101687773503493 https://twitter.com/aobate/status/1466101687773503493 that SIXTEEN YEARS ago they made up a person on Wikipedia ... the biography still exists today (though probably not for much longer, hence the archive link): https://archive.md/BBRC4 https://archive.md/BBRC4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Farrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Farrow Dr. William Henry Farrow (20 June 1805? – 17 November 1876) was a physician born and trained in England. Farrow practiced in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario. He is most notable for providing one of the first detailed descriptions of synesthesia.[1] Farrow reported the details of the illness, (in this case temporary) in an article published in the Lower Canada Journal of Medicine.[2] Footnotes 1. New, Chester (1929). Lord Durham. Oxford University Press. pp. 374–376. 2. "An Analysis of Confusion Occurring between the Senses". The Lower Canada Journal of Medicine. The Medical Society of Lower Canada. 12: 56–62. September 1838. It's always worth remembering that Wikipedia has different sorts of quality problems from conventional encyclopedias.