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The Problem With Circular Sources on Wikipedia

The topic really is stories that aren't true. And that's why the mainstream media aren't reporting them, he says. It isn't part of the problem than not naming the person in the first place. For a while, we had this situation with circular sourcing on Wikipedia,. where Wikipedia would reference a story from from one newspaper report and then everybody would rely on it as definitive.

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