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> Wikipedia's job isn't to push forward the frontiers of knowledge. It's to summarize the stuff you can look up elsewhere. Citation needed.
by markdown 5y ago
> Wikipedia's job isn't to push forward the frontiers of knowledge. It's to summarize the stuff you can look up elsewhere.
Citation needed.
- ericye16 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research
- mardifoufs 5y agoTo push forward the frontiers of knowledge is literally not the point of an encyclopedia, by definition. Even if it was, how could you see frontier pushing happen with volunteer editors ? With more unsourced/trust me bro/self describes experts editing online? I kind of doubt that
- dragonwriter 5y ago> > Wikipedia's job isn't to push forward the frontiers of knowledge. It's to summarize the stuff you can look up elsewhere. > Citation needed. The exact policy under discussion in this sub thread (and, to a lesser extent, the other two in Wikipedia’s trio of core content policies) is exactly a statement of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_resear... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_v...