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598 points leotravis10 | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 15:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source

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alex1138 ◴[05 Sep 25 01:44 UTC] No.45134250[source]▶

I can't defend Wiki any further after their politicization

How about not calling Peter McCullough or Ryan Cole or Pierre Kory misinformation spreaders about covid when they were right the whole time

Larry Sanger was correct

Edit: (I know we're not supposed to comment on downvotes but I seriously don't care) Those of you who insta-downvote stuff like this should not enjoy the privileges of the karma system on HN that allows you to downvote

(Further - how many of you actually work for big tech? Do you think it's ok to censor doctors like has been going on the last few years? Do you have any qualities of personal reflection, whatsoever?)

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Antibabelic ◴[05 Sep 25 12:10 UTC] No.45137616[source]▶

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The goal of Wikipedia has always been to summarize what mainstream secondary sources say, not what is "true" or "right" according to your or some other editor's personal opinion. See WP:DUE, WP:VNT and WP:RGW

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1. lp0_on_fire ◴[05 Sep 25 18:30 UTC] No.45141957[source]▶

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It literally styles itself as an encyclopedia, not a collection of summaries by "mainstream secondary sources".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

> Wikipedia combines many features of general and specialized encyclopedias, almanacs, and gazetteers. Wikipedia is not a soapbox, an advertising platform, a social network, a vanity press, an experiment in anarchy or democracy, an indiscriminate collection of information, nor a web directory. It is not a dictionary, a newspaper, an instruction manual, nor a collection of source documents or media files, although some of its fellow Wikimedia projects are.

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