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Further information: Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?[edit]

The sentence "He also failed to predict that he himself would not survive 1980" is fairly ridiculous. It seems unfair to call the inability to predict one's own death a "failure" and isn't really relevant to the text, is it?Kilkeel (talk) 18:17, 8 May 2014 (UTC)Kilkeel[reply]

Problem

That is so weird, I don't know if this is a bug or intentional, here is what happened:

I typed in [[Further information: Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?]] using the {{Further| }} tag, on the Predictions of Soviet collapse page,
When I pressed "save", I was redirected to Andrei Amalrik (this page).

Question

Is wikipedia that intutive? Is this an unintentional bug (a very useful bug, I might add) or was this intended?

Theory

Computer programs (particuarly wikipedia and open source in general) are similar to evolution: Like evoution, in computer programming, some bugs (traits/mutations) are found to be useful, but most traits are discarded, and only the strongest survive.

Occasionally there is a genetic defect which is accidental, but it is so useful, that despite the "defect" being cast away, it survives and florishes.

I am sure there is an acedemic article about this.

Answer? (later)

Is there somekind of template embedded in either the Andrei Amalrik and/or Predictions of Soviet collapse pages? I think there maybe a template in either the Andrei Amalrik and/or Predictions of Soviet collapse pages.

I think I may have actually created this redirect, :) without really knowing the usefulness of this function/power.Odessaukrain 15:13, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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NPOV[edit]

This article is impressively biased against the author. Between citing the guy that called his predictions "accidents" while not including anything other writers have said of his achievements, mentioning a 7-year gap between his predictions and the real thing like that's a failure and not an award-deserving prediction, and the hilarious "failed to predict his own death" part that luckily was spotted and removed by some editors in the first topic above, this article at times feels almost hostile against Amalrik. I have begun adding notes to other sources about him that show different points of view, and i invite more editors to do the same. YuriNikolai (talk) 21:40, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]