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It's interesting, I always theoretically appreciated that wikipedia could be inaccurate and that the strict requirements could be a bad thing, but I never saw i
by doix 3y ago
It's interesting, I always theoretically appreciated that wikipedia could be inaccurate and that the strict requirements could be a bad thing, but I never saw it in action. Until I was in Tunisia and wanted to visit all the star wars film sites that I could.
There's a place called Ksar Ouled Soltane [0] and I couldn't quite figure out if it was a film site or not. The locals assured me it was, but there were conflicting reports online. I saw that it was listed on Wikipedia, but when I went through the history, I saw that someone tried to remove it [1]. Unfortunately their removal was reverted and their source [2] wasn't considered good enough.
That said, I read their article and I'm much more inclined to believe them than the wikipedia editors.
It was the first time I ever encountered something like this in the wild.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksar_Ouled_Soltane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksar_Ouled_Soltane
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dbavandy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dbavandy
[2] https://galaxytours.com/research/ksar-ouled-soltane-debunking-the-myth/ https://galaxytours.com/research/ksar-ouled-soltane-debunkin...
- irrational 3y agoI have to wonder if Billinghurst even looked at the galaxytours website. I suspect not. It is telling that he never responded to Davin Dbavandy question about why it is not a reliable source.
- epolanski 3y agoI have followed Ukraine-Russia related articles for a decade and saw thousands of articles changed over that time span. One thing that always stood out to me was how till 2014 you could find many references on wikipedia to pre-2014 attempts from Crimea to secede from Ukraine. "Crimea" (quoted, as it may refer to different groups/leaderships in Crimea) tried to split from Ukraine twice already during Soviet times. But this whole thing got edited away in years across dozens of articles. I think there's a significant nuance between the two narratives.