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==Notable examples==

==Notable examples==

*Philip Roth: An absurd situation at [[Wikipedia]] took place when Philip Roth, author of the novel “The Human Stain” was trying to correct a serious misstatement that  this novel was “inspired by the life of the writer Anatole Broyard.” This alleged allegation was in no way substantiated by fact as “The Human Stain” was inspired, rather, by an unhappy event in the life of author's late friend Melvin Tumin, professor of sociology at Princeton. The correction was refused on grounds that Roth, was not a credible source: “I understand your point that the author is the greatest authority on their own work,” wrote the Wikipedia Administrator—“but we require secondary sources.”<ref name="Open letter"/> Consequently, author Philip Roth had to publish an open letter in The New Yorker to satisfy the editors of Wikipedia<ref name="The Guardian">{{cite web |author=Cory Doctorow|title=Why Philip Roth needs a secondary source|publisher=The Guardian|date=19 September 2012 |accessdate=03-June-2013|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/19/why-philip-roth-needs-secondary-source|quote=Author Philip Roth had to publish a letter in The New Yorker to satisfy the editors of Wikipedia...}}</ref> while complaining that items entering Wikipedia are not from the world of truthfulness but from the babble of literary gossip—there is no truth in it at all.<ref name="Open letter">{{cite web |author=Philip Roth|title=An Open Letter To Wikipedia|date=September 7, 2012|accessdate=03-June-2013|url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/09/an-open-letter-to-wikipedia.html|quote=Dear Wikipedia, I am Philip Roth. I had reason recently to read for the first time the Wikipedia entry discussing my novel “The Human Stain.” The entry contains a serious misstatement that I would like to ask to have removed. This item entered Wikipedia not from the world of truthfulness but from the babble of literary gossip—there is no truth in it at all.}}</ref>

*Philip Roth: An absurd situation took place at [[Wikipedia]] when Philip Roth, author of the novel “The Human Stain” was trying to correct a serious misstatement that  this novel was “inspired by the life of the writer Anatole Broyard.” This alleged allegation was in no way substantiated by fact as “The Human Stain” was inspired, rather, by an unhappy event in the life of author's late friend Melvin Tumin, professor of sociology at Princeton. The correction was refused on grounds that Roth, was not a credible source: “I understand your point that the author is the greatest authority on their own work,” wrote the Wikipedia Administrator—“but we require secondary sources.”<ref name="Open letter"/> Consequently, author Philip Roth had to publish an open letter in The New Yorker to satisfy the editors of Wikipedia<ref name="The Guardian">{{cite web |author=Cory Doctorow|title=Why Philip Roth needs a secondary source|publisher=The Guardian|date=19 September 2012 |accessdate=03-June-2013|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/19/why-philip-roth-needs-secondary-source|quote=Author Philip Roth had to publish a letter in The New Yorker to satisfy the editors of Wikipedia...}}</ref> while complaining that items entering Wikipedia are not from the world of truthfulness but from the babble of literary gossip—there is no truth in it at all.<ref name="Open letter">{{cite web |author=Philip Roth|title=An Open Letter To Wikipedia|date=September 7, 2012|accessdate=03-June-2013|url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/09/an-open-letter-to-wikipedia.html|quote=Dear Wikipedia, I am Philip Roth. I had reason recently to read for the first time the Wikipedia entry discussing my novel “The Human Stain.” The entry contains a serious misstatement that I would like to ask to have removed. This item entered Wikipedia not from the world of truthfulness but from the babble of literary gossip—there is no truth in it at all.}}</ref>

*'''Example''': when confronted with the logic and even miracles performed by [[Jesus]], [[Pharisees]] insisted that Jesus cite "authorities" for his truths.  Imagine listening to the [[Prodigal Son]] and then asking the absurd question, ''do you have any references for this?''

*'''Example''': when confronted with the logic and even miracles performed by [[Jesus]], [[Pharisees]] insisted that Jesus cite "authorities" for his truths.  Imagine listening to the [[Prodigal Son]] and then asking the absurd question, ''do you have any references for this?''