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> “…some ideas are given so little attention…” (Long time since I _attempted_ to create an article on Wikipedia, but the form of entries makes it clear) factua
by xtiansimon 1y ago
> “…some ideas are given so little attention…”
(Long time since I _attempted_ to create an article on Wikipedia, but the form of entries makes it clear) factual assertions must largely be supported by (some metric) of published sources. A fringe topic would by definition would have “so little attention”. So it stands to reason Wikipedia would need a _policy_ of supporting fringe in order to allow page creation.
In other words, fringe is what has few supporting references, but is otherwise noteworthy. With a number of notable exceptions.
- binary132 1y agoThere are so many Wikipedia articles which have extremely poor cited works, like literally just somebody’s crappy blog.
- IAmBroom 1y agoYes, like many of humankind's creations, it is not perfect.
- binary132 1y agoThat’s fine with me. What I’m taking issue with here is the assertion that “factual assertions must largely be supported by (some metric) of published sources”. In reality, those sources are often extremely low quality, so it’s not really a useful point.