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!scope=row|Hey, I found a trove of old records! They don't turn out to be particularly useful, but still, cool!
 
!scope=row|Hey, I found a trove of old records! They don't turn out to be particularly useful, but still, cool!
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|Rather than starting with the aim of investigating some question, and finding some way of answering it by uncovering evidence, sometimes a writer may have stumbled upon a cache of historic documents that they then feel compelled to justify the resulting 'WikiWalk' they may have found themselves sucked into. The author may be far more excited about this than any future reader. This could also be a paper by a historian who found out ancient records which could be useful. A similar sentiment appears in [[1979: History]].
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|Rather than starting with the aim of investigating some question, and finding some way of answering it by uncovering evidence, sometimes a writer may have stumbled upon a cache of historic documents that they then feel compelled to justify the resulting 'WikiWalk' they may have found themselves sucked into. The author may be far more excited about this than any future reader. This could also be a paper by a historian who found out ancient records which could be useful.
 
|Small figure may show the most interesting fragment of the records.
 
|Small figure may show the most interesting fragment of the records.
 
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