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The best part is that if someone said Steve Ballmer wrote the BSOD message, people will believe him because he could cite 10 sources, not knowing that those sou
by yen223 12y ago
The best part is that if someone said Steve Ballmer wrote the BSOD message, people will believe him because he could cite 10 sources, not knowing that those sources all stemmed from the same incorrect source.
- m_myers 12y agoRelevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/978/ http://xkcd.com/978/ "Citogenesis" Wikipedia touches briefly on this problem in "Reliability of Wikipedia": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia#Information_loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia#Infor...
- notahacker 12y agoThe most entertaining example is arguably the Coati, which due to a widely-picked-up piece of wikivandalism arguably now is "also known as the Brazilian Aardvark"... except, after editorial discussion, on Wikipedia where the name was coined https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Coati https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Coati