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Surely it would be trivial to get a nice reassuringly high reading on the meter by including lots of references which were irrelevant but easy to access. If you
by takno 10y ago
Surely it would be trivial to get a nice reassuringly high reading on the meter by including lots of references which were irrelevant but easy to access. If you were careful to heavily reference uncontroversial statements they wouldn't even need to be inaccurate
- chris_wot 10y agoIf the source for the citation is irrelevant, then that would have to be considered inaccurate. I don't think an automated metric could ever check the accuracy of a source, only its verifiability and reliability. Any system that relies on metrics can be gamed. Wikipedia has had to deal with an immense amount of gamesmanship over the years, and experienced editors can spot it normally very quickly by now.