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Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/978/ "Citogenesis"

Wikipedia touches briefly on this problem in "Reliability of Wikipedia": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia#Infor...

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The most entertaining example is arguably the Coati, which due to a widely-picked-up piece of wikivandalism arguably now is "also known as the Brazilian Aardvark"... except, after editorial discussion, on Wikipedia where the name was coined https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Coati

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