• zephyreks@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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.