There's an xkcd cartoon that shows a stick figure making up a fact and submitting it to Wikipedia. Another stick figure—a rushed writer—uses that “fact” in a piece they're publishing, and then someone flags the made-up Wikipedia-fact, which results in another stick figure—this one a Wikipedia editor—finding that piece of published writing which uses the false fact, and then citing it on Wikipedia to validate said false fact.
Citogensis
Citogensis
Citogensis
There's an xkcd cartoon that shows a stick figure making up a fact and submitting it to Wikipedia. Another stick figure—a rushed writer—uses that “fact” in a piece they're publishing, and then someone flags the made-up Wikipedia-fact, which results in another stick figure—this one a Wikipedia editor—finding that piece of published writing which uses the false fact, and then citing it on Wikipedia to validate said false fact.