Are you perhaps discussing different meanings of "obvious"?
I think so. It's now obvious to me and pretty much anyone following this discussion that the article was false. I mean, the person who wrote it even admitted it. I don't think it was obvious to the average edit patroller at the time. That's all I was saying. Poor phrasing, I suppose, but not trolling.
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And I agree for whatever it's worth, as someone who does RC patrol a lot, that edit would not have set off any alarm bells. I would have looked at it and tried to make a decision whether it's worth chasing it down and letting a page or two of CDFV screens roll by....we see lot's of stuff added to articles, vandal fighting would grind to a halt if we started fact checking everything. I assume that a subject matter expert catches that stuff on the flip side. Obviously not all the time...