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The citations on Wikipedia articles are often either broken, in a foreign language, or not up to an academic standard. However, following this practice is what
by mountainb 4y ago
The citations on Wikipedia articles are often either broken, in a foreign language, or not up to an academic standard. However, following this practice is what eventually lead me to stop using Wikipedia for anything. When I tried to trace the citations to make my research easier, I found it actually made it a lot slower because I kept running into junk. Before I actually paid attention to the citations on a broad selection of articles, I was under the mistaken belief that Wikipedia was "good enough."
- MisterMower 4y agoThey have weird requirements for citations. Want to cite a link to a blog where a guy has spent 20,000 hours researching a topic but doesn’t have a degree? Not allowed. Want to post a link to a NYT article written by a journalist with no relevant experience in that same field? Go for it. It’s really strange. It’s like they’re aiming for narrative over fact or something.
- asdff 4y agoTo be fair usually when the nyt article is wrong they issue a retraction and when the blogger is wrong they triple down
- 15amxn15 4y ago
- pwdisswordfish0 4y agoCitation needed.