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Re:Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near th... by bakuninsbart on Thursday September 12, 2019 @10:46AM (#20952045)
Wikipedia can be quite problematic if you just look at the page - the way you describe using it, and adding in checking the sources and references, it is a great tool.

But if you want to see an example of "opinionated" people ruining wikipedia, just look at the pages about specific philosophy topics and compare them to the SEP. - On wikipedia a self-learned person is worth as much as an expert, and might be able to push his opinion into the article through sheer stubbornness.

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Re:Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near th... by ceejayoz on Thursday September 12, 2019 @11:57AM (#20952964)
An author I follow on Twitter had trouble getting his birthday corrected on Wikipedia - it got reverted repeatedly as "original research" when he tried to fix it. Had to launder it through a third party by posting the correct one to Twitter and asking his fans to edit it on his behalf.
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Re:Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near th... by JetSpiegel on Thursday September 12, 2019 @09:18PM (#20958210)
https://xkcd.com/978/
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