• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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      1 年前

      If you’re going to try to cite a claim, please don’t just drop the Wikipedia pages on the subjects. In fact, don’t cite Wikipedia at all.

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        1 年前

        Complicated subjects like this have dozens of citations which often contradict eachother. The great thing about wikipedia is that it shows multiple sources and where they came from. This is a far higher standard of evidence than just cherry-picking one source that agrees with me and pretending that it’s definitive. Meanwhile the only thing you’ve cited is your imagination.

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          Yeah, but you don’t actually check any it the citations, nobody who cites Wikipedia does.

          You didn’t even say which part of the Wikipedia articles you were citing