• Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Wikipedia is astroturfed BS for anything remotely politically related.
    Useful if you want to learn about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker or a closed-cycle regenerative heat engine, etc…
    So no politics and subjects with political implications such as history.

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        7 days ago

        I trust no one with my history or geopolitics but ML’s.
        Most informed, well read and thorough people on the planet

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      7 days ago

      It’s really “strange” how people have this delusional viewpoint of wikipedia as neutral, honest, etc.

      I guess it seems fine if you’ve got lib politics completely within the hegemonic narrative.

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        The point is you can check the citations to validate. It can be poisoned by wuzzles but you can discover that with just a bit of effort checking the citations.