Rolfcopter. This guy doesn’t know how to use Wikipedia.
Lawl, 1) 25% of Wikipedia in English is unsourced
lAwL 2) 77% of Wikipedia is written by 1% of its editors
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia#…
RaWfL 3) once a source is credited once, it isn’t rechecked and can be used as a source on Wikipedia countless times
LmFAo 4) literally anyone saying something does not make it credible or true.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You probably learned how to use Wikipedia from Wikipedia, that’s how you got so wrong.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not bad actually en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia_and_fact-checking
criitz@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Not at all. I’m responding to OP, and while my comment is informative and sourced so that other people can understand it too, I do not care at all that my in-kind response turns some people off.
soumerd_retardataire@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thanks, trusting wikipedia because it has a “source”(, as if a source meant the truth 🙄,) is super weird, and a lot of sources are inaccessible anyway, such as those pointing to books. Wikipedia will hopefully be replaced one day, it’s long overdue.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
They inaccessibility of many wiki sources is a very good point, thanks.
I think Wikipedia serves its purpose as a broad strokes indicator of things that are likely significant in some way, but its limitations are as important as its content.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lol… kinda reminds of something… Wikipedia?
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
As scrambled as your brain is, anything could.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It could even be someone purposefully poisoning the well
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Kinda like how the government hires people to put terrible music over all the UFO footage so we perceive it as crazy people stuff.