SIGH! Blooming vandals!
Someone is destroying F1 Wikipedia page(s)
Started by
William Hunt
, Mar 18 2025 18:56
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#52
red stick
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Posted 20 March 2025 - 16:17
I remember that one. That's the general problem. Wikipedia often has warnings where quoted facts are not accompanied by a source reference. But journalists and others publishing information read something on Wikipedia without a source reference and report it as fact, which then provides the source.
If we were truly diabolical, we could manipulate this to create the self-fulfilling prophecies of our choice. Good thing we're above all that.
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Jim Thurman
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Posted 20 March 2025 - 16:17
Trouble was, those sources had got it from Wikipedia in the first place and so you go round and round.
What you mention is similar for the Dario Resta-Buttonwillow, California situation. This fallacy appeared online, was inserted into Resta's Wikipedia entry, then propagated from everyone copying off of Wikipedia.
I've managed to get it removed from most sites that have anyone tending to them, but it still exists on several others.
It hasn't been re-entered into Dario Resta's Wikipedia page, yet...but it would not surprise me to see it return. "Go round", as you put it.
