Hello world. I have a different gripe with Wikipedia that has nothing to do with whether articles within it are factual or not: poor writing style. Wikipedia

Hello world. I have a different gripe with Wikipedia that has nothing to do with whether articles within it are factual or not: poor writing style. Wikipedia editor guidelines encourage cooperation and consensus, but this regularly results in edit wars, where editors aggressively delete each other's edits. To resolve this, editors will usually resort to an unspoken system in which one editor will write one fragment of a sentence and cite sources for that fragment, the other editor writes the next fragment and cites it and so on. The result is a horrible mess that, although most likely entirely factual, is perfectly unreadable. Worse yet, it is very difficult to simply copy such a paragraph from Wikipedia and paste it to your friend's chat box - the inline citation marks remain as full blown numbers and have to be removed by hand.