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Sacha Baron Cohen Wikipedia Entry Creates Circular References

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the 10-goto-20;-20-goto-10 dept.

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."

4 of 234 comments (clear)

  1. What's wrong with that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  2. Recursion, see also: Recursion. by grm_wnr · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    I hope this isnt a circular reference to THIS post.

  3. Re:Ronnie Hazlehurst by matt+me · · Score: 5, Funny

    He now receives royalties.

  4. Re:Fact checking by bongomanaic · · Score: 5, Funny

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