Burgerbrained "key events of the 20th century" article on Wikipedia cites an undergraduate thesis by a nobody
Burgerbrained "key events of the 20th century" article on Wikipedia cites an undergraduate thesis by a nobody
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_events_of_the_20th_century#The_Russian_Revolution_and_Communism
Footnote 19: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1169&context=honorsprojects
The whole section of the Wiki article is regurgitated bad history, but citing a literal rando is low even for Wikipedia
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It's pretty low on the Wikipedia reliable source hierarchy, you could remove it. Then again, some chud could reverse it.
The content was there before the citation anyways.
I'm 100% sure that Wikipedia editors of contentious topics know what they want to write and then just go to Google Scholar to source their idea. Heaps of the references are terrible.
That's clearly what happened here. There's no way they happened to know this undergraduate thesis.
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