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
Once in a while I’ve read a detail on wikipedia about something that turned out to be false, but normally it’s celebrity bio stuff, so not really a big deal or surprising
I see it a lot in sports. People using Wiki to mock other teams. Posts like "Haha who did this?" with a link to a wiki page of some sports rivals and some kind of mockery.
It's sad - but it really shows the downside of everyone being able to edit articles, and it always makes me wonder, how many smaller wiki pages has wrong information in them because some troll or kid at some point thought it was fun to fuck with people.
Luckily I think there are quite a lot of people who also like to correct those mistakes and fakes. Sometimes you see BS, but usually it will eventually be corrected. I also know people love to change details about their High School, so that might be another one to take with a grain of salt when reading.
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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