"Take a look at almost any living famous person's profile and chances are you'll see a large amount of spin and fluff." Citation needed. According to recent t

"Take a look at almost any living famous person's profile and chances are you'll see a large amount of spin and fluff." Citation needed. According to recent traffic reports,[1] some of the most popular biographies of living people recently are as follows: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorde (449,871 views) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai (362,657 views) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miley_Cyrus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miley_Cyrus (342,994 views) Other popular bios include Barack Obama and Ted Cruz. Obviously popularity of these swings heavily toward recent news items in most cases. Now, I wouldn't argue against the assertion that fans of these celebrities have written in some amazing fluff in these articles. But you'd really claim that these articles have been spun by PR people? Looking at the history and the content, I seriously doubt it. Now, if you don't care for how Wikipedia's reliance on third party sources bends content... well, there's not much anyone can do to help you. That's a problem of the media environment Wikipedia exists in, and you haven't really proposed a viable alternative to relying on secondary source material. The way we correct for bias in sources is to use more sources, and be selective about ones we use, taking in to account the fact that some are highly unreliable. In the end, if you have a problem with how Wikipedia relies on certain sources or what it says on certain articles, there's an easy solution: edit the damn thing. I don't particularly care about the Miley Cyrus article, but if I did, I'd be doing something about it. Wikipedia's best defense against fluff, spin, and PR influence is for smart people (like Hacker News denizens) to participate. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-10-16/Traffic_report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...