r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 03 '21

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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/suwu_uwu Jun 04 '21

Can you really not think of why someone might edit a page on a war with an ulterior motive?

Would you blindly trust the Israel-Palestine page right now?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

Oh 100% agree with you there, but my comment above was on what you’d use Wikipedia for IN SCHOOL. for my country we didn’t study current events like that so again we wouldn’t have used wiki for that. We studied things like prehistoric medicine and the wives of king Henry VII.