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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