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Clicking on the first link in the main text of an English Wikipedia article, and then repeating the process for subsequent articles, usually leads to the Philosophy article. In February 2016, this was true for 97% of all articles in Wikipedia,[1] an increase from 94.52% in 2011. The remaining articles lead to an article without any outgoing wikilinks, to pages that do not exist, or get stuck in loops. There have been some theories on this phenomenon, with the most prevalent being the tendency for Wikipedia pages to move up a "classification chain". According to this theory, the Wikipedia Manual of Style guidelines on how to write the lead section of an article recommend that articles begin by defining the topic of the article. A consequence of this style is that the first sentence of an article is almost always a definitional statement, a direct answer to the question "what is [the subject]?" Following the chain consists of: Mathematician Hannah Fry demonstrated the method in the 'Marm

Wikipedia:Getting to Philosophy - Wikipedia Wikipedia : Getting to Philosophy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search It has been suggested that Wikipedia philosophy phenomenon be merged into this page. ( Discuss ) Proposed since July 2026. This project page is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy . Please discuss the matter at this page's entry on the Miscellany for deletion page. You are welcome to edit this page, but please do not blank, merge, or move it, or remove this notice, while the discussion is in progress. For

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