{"id":1392,"date":"2011-11-16T10:37:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T15:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2011-11-16T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T19:00:45","slug":"where-good-citations-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2011\/11\/16\/where-good-citations-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Good Citations come From"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call me old-fashioned, but I never thought that truth was simply generated by whoever is in power. (This would require that those in power had a perfect ability to not only control everybody, but also to predict what fabricated truths would be in their interest for all eternity &#8211; well, no, nobody really knows that.)<\/p>\n<p>Here is another way in which things can become considered to be true: the always observant XKCD shows how <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/978\/\">the citation policies of Wikipedia (always refer to external source) quickly go wrong when Wikipedia is used for writing those external sources in the first place:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/citogenesis1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1393\" title=\"citogenesis[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/citogenesis1-450x513.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/citogenesis1-450x513.png 450w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/citogenesis1.png 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me old-fashioned, but I never thought that truth was simply generated by whoever is in power. (This would require that those in power had a perfect ability to not only control everybody, but also to predict what fabricated truths would be in their interest for all eternity &#8211; well, no, nobody really knows that.) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2011\/11\/16\/where-good-citations-come-from\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where Good Citations come From&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}