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Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository

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Re: Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository

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> The articles that get deleted by the little notability hitlers are contributions with no cost incurred by anyone, save the trivial storage space. Godwin, and wrong on the merits, as well. The stuff that gets deleted is the stuff that can't be verified, which means there's no way to fact-check it. It isn't about storage space or clutter: It's about not having stuff in there that can't be verified.

It's inaccurate to say that wikipedia is fact checked or verified. The existence of a citation does not imply the existence of a fact check or a verification, or verifiability. Even when citations are high quality, the info they're supporting is still usually unverifiable due to wikipedia's disconnection from the community of experts. Wikipedia is nothing more than the biggest plagiarist / content farm on the Interne…

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Re: Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository

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Britannica actually accepts user generated content. They are superior to wikipedia, however, in that they have credible experts vet the content. The complaint about wikipedia is that it fails to live up to its ideals. If you had ever been a wikipedia editor you wouldn't talk the way you do. Even as a domain expert it's intolerable to deal with the wikipedia amateur hour culture. It's far more rewarding to submit your…

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