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by taneq 1562 days ago
Reminds me of whoever it was that bootstrapped a "fact" into Wikipedia "truth" by ninja-editing some obscure public figure's wiki page with a fabricated piece of trivia just as they hit the headlines for whatever reason, which made it into a published (if hastily researched) article about the figure. Then when a Wikipedia editor reverted the edit, they re-added it, citing the article as a source.