Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
Wikipedia isn't "Not Ready for Prime Time" any more... we were recently mentioned in a U.S. prime time broadcast network television program. At the end of this past Sunday's episode of "American Dad", which concerned exposing a historical conspiracy, a character asks the rhetorical question of where he can publish his expose of the "true facts" he has uncovered so that people will believe it in absence of actual proof... then answers it by creating an article on Wikipedia. (This actually violates several policies, including No Original Research and Verifiability / References.)
I prefer not to believe everything I hear on an American sitcoms. Writers of fiction in particular can be allowed certain licence on the road to making their stories work.
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