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Wikipedia as a self-parody[edit]

"By an unconscious self-parody I mean a poem or a passage in which the author is both characteristic and unintentionally absurd. I regret it has not been possible to include any Carlyle because, when I came to look through that fulgurating prose again after a happy lapse of thirty years since I had to read it in Freshman English at Yale, I discovered it was all self-parody."
— Dwight MacDonald, Parodies, p. 474

Dwight MacDonald dichotomizes self-parodies as either conscious or unconscious. Is Wikipedia unconsciously or consciously a self-parody?

Kiefer.Wolfowitz 21:22, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]