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
Wouldn't that be running afoul of the Citogenesis problem that Randall
Munroe so succinctly pointed out in his xkcd web comic:
https://xkcd.com/978/
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On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 1:19 PM, David Gerard
On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 15:04:31 -0700, Brian J Mingus wrote:
Wikipedia's policies are irrelevant: This phenomenon has entered the
lexicon, and is now well known simply due to its existence in Wikipedia.
I wouldn't say that Wikipedia's policies are irrelevant to anything
regarding Wikipedia, as
