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20100225 13:54oh, that glorious wikipedia — quoted authoritatively by mushbrains over the world.
again i attempt to correct the stupid: if the wikipedia article you’re quoting as an authority is properly written, it will list its sources, and those sources (preferably stripped to their origin), at best, are what you should quote. original research is, with only extremely rare exception, prohibited by wikipedia policy.
me, writing the author of a post lew rockwell pointed to as a supposed refutation of helicopter bernanke:
"Even wikipedia".
absent referral to the direct source(s) that any properly written wikipedia article must have for any assertion (thereby bypassing wikipedia, except perhaps to say it's where you found your source), "wikipedia" is essentially a fancy way of saying "someone no one's ever heard of", while pretending it bears great weight.
then, in perspective, "Even [someone you've never heard of]" says blah blah? wow!
it marks you.



