Doesn't authority come from accuracy, not recency? If you see any part of the article that is inaccurate, you should edit it and make it more authoritative.

True, but at the heart of this assertion is that Go was already a language name that was taken _before_ Google used it.

Which might entirely be true.

But that assertion would be strengthened by pointing to a link/post that was somewhat _older_.

I remember seeing papers and presentations on go! from eight or so years ago. Fujitsu Labs of America used it to build some multiagent systems. It drew on many years of previous work by Clark and McCabe, which I first came to know of in the mid 1980s.

Wikipedia is the über-encyclopædia. ;-)