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Long-Term Wikipedia Vandalism Exposed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pseudoscience-and-self-promotion dept.

Daveydweeb writes, "The accuracy of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, came into question again when a long-standing article on 'NPA personality theory' was confirmed to be a hoax. Not only had the article survived at Wikipedia for the better part of a year, but it had even been listed as a 'Good Article,' supposedly placing it in the top 0.2-0.3% of all Wikipedia articles — despite being almost entirely written by the creator of the theory himself."

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  1. Re:Irregardless is not a fucking word by isorox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Irregardless is not a word

    Yes it is, I saw it in wikipedia!

    Irregardless is a word