[wheels]

Kind of odd to see this turning up here: this theory isn't new and in fact is one of the couple most accepted theories about the origin of the gospels. It was proposed more than a century ago, and this article doesn't say anything particularly new or interesting about it. Honestly, the Wikipedia page is probably better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_source

[chris_wot]

Q is something that has been hypothesised, it has never been actually found. The Wikipedia article shows that it's definitely not universally accepted by any stretch.

[wheels]

That seems to literally just be restating what I said? Being one of the couple most accepted implies that there are other theories, and if it'd been found, it wouldn't be a theory, but simply part of the historical record.

[readthenotes1]

I was kind of wondering if the reason it showed up was that it was AI generated and then edited.

[emmelaich]

The conclusion feels a bit AI-ish.

[zifpanachr23]

Perhaps

[zargon]

https://xkcd.com/1053/

[andrewflnr]

Well yeah, but you can just post the wiki article if that's better. HN is usually cool with that.

[refulgentis]

We should reduce all links to Wikipedia if feasible?

Sounds like redux of https://xkcd.com/1053/

[andrewflnr]

If you want to post about a random topic, and Wikipedia is better than the random blog where you encountered the topic, you should prefer to post the Wikipedia article. This is a specific case of "prefer to post higher-quality pages", which I hope is not controversial.

[refulgentis]

I'm shaking my head over here. Never thought I'd hear people complaining they got a link to an article instead of Wikipedia. I literally can't believe it. This is a good article and its bone-headed for several obvious reasons to argue it should be replaced by a wikpedia article. Let's go with the most utilitarian: If this was just a site for entity-name-matching to wikipedia articles, it wouldn't be very popular.

[andrewflnr]

> entity-name-matching to wikipedia articles

I thought I made it clear that this was a strawman. Literally no one is proposing that. If you think OP is good actually, feel free to argue that on its own grounds.