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Just yesterday, someone posted on Twitter: "I'm never sure when is a good time to share that I made up a person on Wikipedia sixteen years ago and he is still
by akolbe 5y ago
Just yesterday, someone posted on Twitter:
"I'm never sure when is a good time to share that I made up a person on Wikipedia sixteen years ago and he is still there"
https://twitter.com/aobate/status/1466101687773503493 https://twitter.com/aobate/status/1466101687773503493
The biography still exists today (though probably not for much longer, so here is an archive link as well):
https://archive.md/BBRC4 https://archive.md/BBRC4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Farrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Farrow
It reads:
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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.
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It's always worth remembering that Wikipedia has different sorts of quality problems from conventional encyclopedias.
Its quality control system, for example, is not systematic or methodical, but completely haphazard, because everything is done by volunteers. And volunteers volunteer for what they feel like doing.