gwern comments on Terminology Thread (or "name that pattern") - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 15 July 2014 12:04:13AM 2 points [-]

/u/Morendil calls this 'leprechauns'; in a Wikipedia context, one might use 'citogenesis'. I run into this occasionally - most recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bicycle_face#Serious_sourcing_issues