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Another common misconception is that Wikipedia is a good place to get reliable facts. A serious question: Do you ever verify citations? Or do you just assume t
by emordnilap 16y ago
Another common misconception is that Wikipedia is a good place to get reliable facts.
A serious question: Do you ever verify citations? Or do you just assume that since there is one, the article is probably correct?
- emordnilap 16y agoWow, that came out a lot more snarky than I meant it to be. I recently spent a several hours trying to find correct information about some hardware, all the while running into incorrect information copied and pasted from a wikipedia article. I eventually found the information, but almost all the top search results from google and yahoo (and even duckduckgo) pointed to the inaccurate wikipedia information, most times pasted verbatim and passed off as truth.