At 4:34 PM -0400 3/29/10, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>Hmm, just because a given page is linked to from a wikipedia page, can one 
>assume that the target of the link is about the same thing as the original 
>page?   I'm not sure how often this assumption would be violated?

Well, it got violated on one of my very rarely updated ones, but in a very fun 
way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch/sqzm14.ust.hk

Note the first  link from "Talk:Hiking equipment" to my copy of a 1995 document 
rating the quality of condoms.  The original page has extensive discussion of 
the possible use of a condom as an emergency water container for hiking, and 
reference the 1995 document due to its reference to a condom being bale to hold 
3 liters of water.

I had a lot of fun reading through their discussion. :)

-Spode

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