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I don't understand what the author imagines Wikipedia purpose to be As far as I can tell, the change the author wants is to make wikipedia the source of truth
by setr 10y ago
I don't understand what the author imagines Wikipedia purpose to be
As far as I can tell, the change the author wants is to make wikipedia the source of truth itself, and write articles on anyone so long as they produced some kind of media; but since I guess referring to other sources of writing on the creator is unreliable (unless they're cis white rich men?), I'm not sure what source wiki editors are supposed to refer to, beyond their own knowledge
- duskwuff 10y agoAnd if you try to relax the notability criteria for biographies of living people, you run squarely into another problem: those articles are inherently sensitive. If you don't require that facts be tracable to reliable sources, libel and self-promotion start to leak in very quickly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_livin...