Wouldn't that be running afoul of the "Citogenesis" problem that Randall
Munroe so succinctly pointed out in his xkcd web comic:
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On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 1:19 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8 March 2014 18:04, Brian J Mingus
<brian.mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote:
The reason the name stuck is that
"Baader-Meinhof" is a weird name, and
one
would not expect to see it multiple times
independently in short
succession.
Hence the name "Baader-Meinhof
phenomenon" (which is also the name of a
book) is analogous to onomatopoeia in that both represent the thing they
are
describing in some way - this is also similar to
homoiconicity. It's a
perfect name - much better than "frequency illusion" - and a substantial
number of people now know it by this name, in part due to its
longstanding
and interesting history of existence on
Wikipedia, which has advertised
it
to hundreds of thousands of people and generated
tens of thousands of
websites which use it by that name.
The article should clearly stay!
Now you just need sources to this effect. There's always writing them ...
- d.
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