• themurphy@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Wikipedia is very good, but ALWAYS look for more than one source.

    I also once wrote a paper about WW2 in school, and when I got into Wikipedia, someone had edited the entire page to say “Hitler won”. Nothing else.

    It was only in my language tho, and was resolved quickly.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Wikipedia is very good, but ALWAYS look for more than one source.

      Wikipedia is a terrible source, but it’s a great source for other sources.

      One of the biggest problems with the site is that it doesn’t archive the linked material. So you can have a bunch of dead links to older historical entries, which undermines the value over long terms.