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 :Any babbling idiot can self-publish what they like on the Web and on Wikipedia.  (Thus, the famous cartoon that ""On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."")  Do you have citations to a published BOOK or periodical article that satisfies WP:RS?  Like the popular, widely used, heavily footnoted textbook on Local Government Law by Osborne Reynolds, to which I inserted a citation to in the article for the assertion that Massachusetts had counties first?    "