Talk:Factoid/Archives/2020

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Gobbledygook paragraph

This paragraph was in the Usage section, but it makes no sense to more than one person.

Historian Dion Smythe defines factoids to be assertions about the truth, as documented in primary sources of historical research. In this indirect meaning, the truthfulness of factoids comes from objectively observable existence of such assertions themselves, and not from the truthfulness of what they claim about the world.^[1]

It looks like meaningless jargon and it is also a factoid in the current usual sense (trivial). Thus, I removed it. If someone wants to restore it, first turn it into comprehensible English. Zaslav (talk) 18:59, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

^ Dion Smythe (2007). "A Whiter Shade of Pale: Issues and Opportunities in Prosopography". Unit for Prosopographical Research, Linacre College, University of Oxford. ISBN 978-1-900934-12-1.

[1] Dion Smythe (2007). "A Whiter Shade of Pale: Issues and Opportunities in Prosopography". Unit for Prosopographical Research, Linacre College, University of Oxford. ISBN 978-1-900934-12-1.

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