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If there is no decent reference available, IMHO the knowledge is useless anyways and might as well be deleted. Can anybody prove me wrong?
by nuancebydefault 4y ago
If there is no decent reference available, IMHO the knowledge is useless anyways and might as well be deleted. Can anybody prove me wrong?
- wpietri 4y agoYou're getting downvoted, but I think for Wikipedia you're correct. Wikipedia's purpose is not to be a cutting-edge repository of all truth. It's to conveniently organize all the knowledge that can be looked up. That's because every bit of it needs to be verifiable by non-expert editors. If there's some knowledge that can't be looked up, then that's not Wikipedia's problem to solve.
- nuancebydefault 4y agoIndeed. And even more in general, "truth" is a realtive term. More often than not, it is hardly verifiable, the best thing available is "consensus", which is the aim of Wikipedia content.