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A fact from John Henry Wright appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 October 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Harvard professor John Henry Wright(pictured), whose teaching range was "encyclopaedic", described Indian Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda as "more learned than all our learned professors put together"?
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I have removed two references citing my own work as a source. While I'm flattered, it does not meet wikipedia's standards for a reliable source. Not that I regard myself unreliable as such, but the citations pointed to my own self-published website, in once instance to a piece reproduced from an article I had previously written for wikipedia itself! I rather doubt it's permissible for wikipedia to cite itself as an authority, even at one remove. The ultimate reliable sources for the information are standard bibliographical resources; I'll see about tracking them down and adding them in at some point. BPK (talk) 14:59, 18 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
