🔗 jwz: Wikipedia: Constructed entirely of the Appeal to Authority Fallacy

The canonical example of this is when the author of Station Eleven could not get her Wikipedia page to stop claiming she was married, any change being immediately reverted with [citation needed]. She finally got it fixed by imposing on a friend to get this factoid published in Slate, in _A Totally Normal Interview With Author Emily St. John Mandel_. An approach that is obviously scalable and readily available to everyone.