Post by That Duckfan on Jan 20, 2022 22:49:23 GMT
Thanks for that. Guess that's what I get for trusting Wikipedia!
...which brings us to the other side of the spectrum: Wikipedia has SO MUCH MISINFORMATION. Always has, always will. And yet, if something just manages to get onto Wikipedia and stay there for a little while, people WILL start seeing it as fact. It's really annoying when you see something you know is wrong, yet at the same time you know tons of others believe it to be true, because "everybody" by default trusts Wikipedia. It's just too much work to look up other sources of information, if there are other sources at all. (I'm speaking from experience here as well; it's so easy to fall into the trap of just skimming through Wikipedia and call it a day.)
There's so much fabrication on Wikipedia, impossibly detailed histories of the 10th century even though even only a handful of original sources from that time are known to exist. Dates made up from thin air, complete narratives copied from 19th century books that are completely out of date and probably made up, but freely available. But hey, a source is a source. The myth of scientific consensus is real on Wikipedia.