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In fact, you can provide citations which don't actually say what you are using them for (or say what you want while totally failing to substantiate it in any wa
by pekk 14y ago
In fact, you can provide citations which don't actually say what you are using them for (or say what you want while totally failing to substantiate it in any way) and it tends to work as long as the group of people who camp that particular article agree with your editorial slant on the matter.
I'm always chasing down citations on wikipedia and finding this to be the case.
- mjn 14y agoThat's definitely something worth chasing down. I haven't found it in the articles I edit, but I guess I tend to avoid editing articles where people have axes to grind (Israel-Palestine, U.S. politics, climate-change, alternative medicine, that kind of thing). I do sometimes find misreferences, but in the areas I edit (archaeology, geography, engineering, history) they're most often misreads or misinterpretations by someone who was reading either too carelessly or without enough background.