I agree with you that it was the right way to do it, but there are so many aviation myths floating around---"The Zero was just a copy of the Hughes Racer...the BMW engine in the FW-190 was just a copy of a Pratt & Whitney...etc."--that I enjoy pointing them out when I find them, Otherwise, Wikipedia will continue to lead us down the garden path as long as they have "a citation," no matter how wrong it is.