sourceless

English

Etymology

From source +‎ -less.

Adjective

sourceless (not comparable)

  1. Without a source.
    • 2025 September 30, Larry Sanger, “6. Reveal who Wikipedia’s leaders are.”, in larrysanger.org‎[1]:
      Wikipedia-derived factoids can be so important that there is a well-known feedback loop, called citogenesis, in which the mainstream news finds some claim made in a Wikipedia article, and publishes it (without citing Wikipedia). Then Wikipedia itself makes use of the news article. By means of this loop, an ultimately “sourceless” factoid gains a spurious authority.

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