The Astronomer and the Amateur meet on Wikipedia

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The Moon is made of green cheese.

or, an editor's personal recounting of a painful conversation

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Here’s how the conversation should have ended:

Amateur: The Moon is made of green cheese.

Astronomer: No it's not, it's made (after oxygen) of silicon, aluminium, calcium, magnesium, and iron.

Amateur: Find me a citation that says it's not made of green cheese.

Astronomer: Here's a chart I just found in my files and uploaded which gives the composition.

Amateur: How do you know that's what it is? I say it's a chart of the composition of Pluto.

Astronomer: Understandable. Have a nice day.

The conversation was painful because the astronomer didn’t know when to stop talking.

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Unfortunately that's not conducive to getting the verifiable facts in an article.

As I mention, this is a retelling of a real conversation the author had:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:History_of_the_Internet/Archive_3#Pictures

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