There's a music channel on YouTube that does "Fact or Fiction" with musicians, where they fact-check the person's Wikipedia page with them.

Sometimes they don't even get through the first sentence before the person has to stop them with corrections.

Loudwire — Wikipeda: Fact or Fiction? https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvXmarOi5xICV0X4HfMH7S29E...

That's it. Sorry, didn't know the name of the channel.

Which assumes that the musicians aren't lying, but yes, an occasional lying musician is probably still more accurate overall than Wikipedia's sourcing.

And thank you for the link.

edit: sorry, was being a bit rude.

There is a lot of ego, especially on political debates, other articles have a much better quality.

I don't know a feasible solution, but I often think the prominent voices are more of a problem than the average contributor.

Maybe not tracking the amount of contributios would help. More anonymous access to help against echo chambers and networks?

That's very interesting RE prominent voices. I guess getting into an ego-war with whoever likes to crit your ideas probably happens from time to time.

But I do remember reading about a physicist who wasn't allowed to edit the Wiki on their theory! (sorry can't remember who / when)

Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer".

:Would you really prefer it if Wikipedia allowed David Miscavige ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Miscavige ) to edit the Wikipedia page on Scientology ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology )?

:Wikipedia's policies on writing about yourself are spot on. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Best_practices_for_e...

iirc it was someone from Periodic Videos or Numberphile

Compared to what? I have the same issue with books in my focus areas that are widely revered, and even some peer-reviewed articles in good journals. I often disagree with things said on Wikipedia, but that's because I often disagree with the novice-accessible versions of things I know a lot about.