Sacha Baron Cohen Wikipedia Entry Creates Circular References

Lantrix writes "An anonymous user added information to Wikipedia's entry on Sacha Baron Cohen three days before the now-referenced external article was written. The Independent wrote the referenced article apparently using Wikipedia as the source establishing his 'Goldman Sachs' career. Now Wikipedia uses as a references the article that came after the initial modification to Wikipedia itself."

Comments

What's wrong with that?

[Anonymous Coward]

When the whole world uses Wikipedia as the reference for a lot of things, what's wrong when Wikipedia does it? This is completely biased...

Recursion, see also: Recursion.

[grm_wnr]

From TFA:
>A recent post on SlashDot quotes an IT professor saying

I hope this isnt a circular reference to THIS post.

Re:Ronnie Hazlehurst

[matt me]

He now receives royalties.

Re:Fact checking

[bongomanaic]

This is the British press we're talking about. Instead of "Is it true?" the question they ask is "Will they sue?"

Re:Fact checking

[HeroreV]

we will all suffer from the loss of reliable, fact-checked information. I don't see how that's related to newspapers.

Re:Accountability

[budgenator]

Wikipedia is notoriously bad at biographical content regarding famous people, it's just the nature of the beast. The wikinazi's can plaster citation needed all over the place, but it's not going to change the spin that PR types are going to places on every bit of information they can lay their lying hands on. I'm waiting for a Wikipedia article explaining how the Chinese have rolled out modern infra-structure and established human rights in Tibet