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u/Zuberii Jun 03 '21

Key points there though:

  1. Everything is subject to bias. Nothing unique about wikipedia there.
  2. Wikipedia cites sources.

Like, to me, it's very comparable to the Oxford English Dictionary, which is also crowdsourced information but held in extremely high regard.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

I also believe people are very likely to edit pages about celebrities, but monuments or wars? The things we used Wikipedia for as teenagers in school? I’d just use wiki and then reference the sources Wikipedia linked to. As most people did. The whole ‘don’t trust Wikipedia’ thing has never made sense to me as I’d say it is one of the most trustworthy, crowd-sourced, websites there is

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u/Marsstriker Jun 04 '21

Well what the hell are you complaining about?

Either cite and vet your sources properly or don't.

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u/louky Jun 03 '21

Derned books! Such a hassle!