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They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.

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zephyreks@lemmy.ca
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It’s also just often completely inaccurate. The standards it uses to cite works make them pretty much useless: any good information on Wikipedia is on there by accident.

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DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml
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That is wildly inaccurate and you know it. There are like 6.5 million articles on Wikipedia and the majority (since people are pedantic, we’ll say 50.1%) are well cited and accurate

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zephyreks@lemmy.ca
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Have you looked at what’s considered a valid “source” on Wikipedia?

The fact that there’s an odd good article does not make the site a reliable source of anything.

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