[WikiEN-l] Reverberating self-reinforcing autoregenerative circular sourcing

[Thomas Dalton]

> Good, right? Unfortunately the reporter did not cite his source. So someone contacted that reporter and asked.
>
> And, guess what: the reporter's source was the Wikipedia article.

Someone should tell his boss and get him fired. What kind of
journalist uses Wikipedia as a source for any like that (especially
without saying "according to Wikipedia", so people can decide how much
to trust the "fact")? We don't use tertiary sources for articles, and
neither should journalists...