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."

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And the story here is?

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If they state their own article itself as the only reference they have, isn't that useful information in and of itself? This just tells people that the article is effectively pulled direct out of someones head.

As long as it's not saying there ARE other data sources involved and NOT listing those, then what exactly is the issue here? I'd be more worried if someone found as many bogus references that were close as possible to pad the article, ensuring people think it is exhaustively researched.