On 7/29/20 11:18 PM, Win Treese wrote:
On Jul 29, 2020, at 4:22 PM, <thomas.haigh@gmail.com> <thomas.haigh@gmail.com> wrote: […]
The figure is also in Wikipedia, without a real source, so I'm acutely aware that it's one of those factoids that historians and journalists will find somewhere like Wikipedia or the Hobbes Timeline and then copy, thus creating a "reliable source" that Wikipedia can then cite to support the information. It's like a time paradox.
Of course, there’s an XKCD for that: https://xkcd.com/978/.
If we know which Wikipedia article exactly, the best thing to do would be to add a [[citation needed]] flag, or even better, to link to this SIGCIS thread in the artcile talk page with a short explanation. If you point me to the article, I can do that as a contribution to restore XKCD's faith in Wikipedia :) -- *********************************************** Alexandre Hocquet Archives Henri Poincaré & Science History Institute Alexandre.Hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr https://www.sciencehistory.org/profile/alexandre-hocquet https://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet ***********************************************