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Suggestion: use LLMs coupled to playwright/puppeteer etc. to detect broken links to supporting references, and also use LLMs to analyze whether the supporting r
by photochemsyn 1y ago
Suggestion: use LLMs coupled to playwright/puppeteer etc. to detect broken links to supporting references, and also use LLMs to analyze whether the supporting reference really does back up the claim being made in the Wikipedia article.
This raises the thorny issue of what constitutes an 'authoritative reference' and given that many if not most such references are hidden behind various paywalls, and that the editors and volunteers are anonymoous actors with unknown special interests and biases, the conclusion is that Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information, and a wikipedia citation is essentially useless and should never be allowed in any reputable publication.
- card_zero 1y agoIt's been said since the beginning, by Wikipedia, that the idea is not to cite the page itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia > Normal academic usage of Wikipedia is for getting the general facts of a problem and to gather keywords, references and bibliographical pointers, but not as a source in itself. There is always an issue about claim not in source. Often this is a matter of perception and has to be decided by an argument about what the source means, or what a conventional reading of the source is.