>    Reminds me of the case where wikipedia (being a user-edited encyclopedia)
> inadvertedly created its own sourced fact.
...
>    So now wikipedia had a referenced fact that it had created itself
> (until someone figured this whole thing out).

I vaguely remember something similar with some relatively unknown 
football team.  Someone put some incorrect fact in the wikipedia page 
(IIRC to do with hats the fans wear or something), the local paper 
copied it out, then the wikipedia page could source the newspaper article.

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