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> I'm genuinely curious about the cost of having a page about your cat's water bowl. Several billion cat-water bowl pages are probably just an annoyance for s
by _jal 7y ago
> I'm genuinely curious about the cost of having a page about your cat's water bowl.
Several billion cat-water bowl pages are probably just an annoyance for someone.
But what would you think of a page explaining, say, all the healthy virtues of drinking diluted bleach for fighting C19 being hosted on wikipedia.org?
How do you think that's going to work out, in the first instance, when panicking people read it, and in the second, when people start treating wikipedia.org as trustworthy as their spam folder?
- CDSlice 7y agoWouldn’t that be blocked by Wikipedia’s source requirements? Presumably no trustworthy source will say that drinking diluted bleach is good for you so there won’t be any sources to make a Wikipedia article out of.
- mauvehaus 7y agoI realize that you and the parent are referring to recent news, but bleach can be used to disinfect water for drinking in an emergency[0]. I'm not going to argue with anybody who feels like this is pedantry (yes, technically the resulting water is highly diluted bleach, but that's not the point), but it is worth filing away for the future. You know, the one where we can buy bleach again. [0] https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/emergency-disinfection-drinking-water https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/emergenc...