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ahelwer
on March 24, 2020
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A mother and son who unraveled a geographic hoax
I was going to speculate that the wikipedia user was inspired by xkcd's "citogenesis" comic [0] but that was published in 2011 [1] while the edit happened in 2009.
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https://xkcd.com/978/
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https://xkcd.com/978/info.0.json
Sniffnoy
on March 24, 2020
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XKCD did not at all invent the idea of putting false information on Wikipedia.
kibwen
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Note that citogenesis is a fair bit more insidious than simple false information.
Sniffnoy
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Sure, but there's no particular reason to suspect that here; the original edit seems to have been simple vandalism.
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[0] https://xkcd.com/978/
[1] https://xkcd.com/978/info.0.json