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There wasn't anything said about Wikipedia being a bad idea, but rather that it shouldn't be your sole source for fact-checking. I've learned that people only t
by jtuente 8y ago
There wasn't anything said about Wikipedia being a bad idea, but rather that it shouldn't be your sole source for fact-checking. I've learned that people only trust Wikipedia to the point at which it confirms their biases.
- penagwin 8y agoPart of the problem is that Wikipedia is generally pretty darn accurate. Everybody always talks about funny vandalism stories, but generally it's pretty good. The issue of course is that there's parts of it that definitely aren't correct. This makes it easy to say "Well if it's accurate 99% of the time then it must confirm what I thought!".
- drilldrive 8y agoI have found that Wikipedia is pretty great, with the sole exception for anything that is remotely political. I would look elsewhere for such content.
- stingraycharles 8y agoThe flow of the conversation was: - OP made an open platform - Someone said it could be a good idea because Wikipedia - Someone else said that Wikipedia has flaws Hence my comment.