[Foundation-l] Wikiquote: to be, or not to be

[Andrew Gray]

2008/9/11 Yann Forget <yann at forget-me.net>:
> mboverload wrote:
>> I messed the last section up:  A lazy reporter cites something from
>> Wikipedia that is not cited (and maybe not true).  The lazy reporter
>> then reports on it in a reliable source.  Then that reliable source
>> gets cited in the article to back up that "fact".
>
> A reliable source doing that is not reliable anymore, i.e. this source
> is not suitable as a reference for Wikipedia.

People do tend to remove these sort of loops, but only once they've
found out they exist. If the reporter doesn't mention where they got
the information, then it can be tricky...

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- Andrew Gray
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