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This is going to be a growing problem that Wikipedia will have to address. Wikipedia is increasingly becoming a primary source. If you witness an important eve
by sambeau 16y ago
This is going to be a growing problem that Wikipedia will have to address. Wikipedia is increasingly becoming a primary source.
If you witness an important event that has been reported inaccurately would your first reaction be to write a newspaper article, write a blog, or edit the Wikipedia page?
- piguy314 16y agoThat's going to be a problem because of https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:No_... As an alternative I recommend you check out: http://www.wikinews.org/ http://www.wikinews.org/
- tokenadult 16y agoWikipedia is increasingly becoming a primary source. That's not what Wikipedia claims to be, for any ordinary definition of "primary source." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT
- sambeau 16y agoI realise this, I am suggesting they will eventually have to change. At some point, the weight of millions of edits to itself will have to outweigh a link to another single source.
- khafra 16y agoI'd post it with an inflammatory headline to reddit.