[f2f]

> What is up with all of these wikipedia entries making the front page of hacker news? Has it always been so and I’m mis remembering thinking this is something new?

Hehe, there's another name for what you're describing: baader-meinhof effect...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader%E2%80%93Meinhof_effect

Everything has a name nowadays. Taxonomies are almost complete :)

[twic]

I swear i'm seeing the Baader-Meinhof effect come up more and more frequently recently.

[taneq]

I thought the current rate of references to it was normal? :P