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They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is wildly inaccurate and you know it. There are like 6.5 million articles on Wikipedia and the majority (since people are pedantic, we'll say 50.1%) are well cited and accurate

[โ€“] zephyreks@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Have you looked at what's considered a valid "source" on Wikipedia?

The fact that there's an odd good article does not make the site a reliable source of anything.