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Wikipedia is too often the final source of truth for people. While I'm not saying it's intentionally wrong very often, but accidental wrongs get repeated elsewh
by chungy 3y ago
Wikipedia is too often the final source of truth for people. While I'm not saying it's intentionally wrong very often, but accidental wrongs get repeated elsewhere. It happens especially with things like the Vatican flag ("Surely Wikipedians haven't fabricated some alternate version?").
Another example: The Windows Me logo (yes, seriously). At the bottom of the stylized "Me" are the words "Millennium Edition"; Wikipedians like to recreate logos into vector format. Unfortunately, someone had misspelled those words to say "Millenium Edition" instead. I personally fixed that image, but I still see the misspelled version crop up from time to time in articles, YouTube videos, etc (how are they still getting the wrong version? I don't know...).
- MortimerDukePhD 3y agoI'd be willing to wager there's an endless discussion on the Talk page about this, where someone is arguing that the Vatican is wrong about their own flag, and they should be the ones to change.
- conradfr 3y agoI've been on a forum where from time to time we would put harmless wrong infos in Wikipedia pages, mostly from inside jokes. Few remain but at least one that is still there is now in multiple articles and actual books.
- sitkack 3y agoAbsolve your sins!
- cm2187 3y agoThis is of the level of Ron Burgundy and his teleprompter.
- Kwpolska 3y agoThe fourth hit on Google Images for "Windows ME" (at least over here) is this misspelled version: https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:Windows_ME_Logo.png https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:Window...
- chungy 3y agoOh my, there's a ton of the misspelled versions on Google Images. That could explain a lot.