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Re:Why do I care the open web is dying? by cthor on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:38PM (#25262033)
It's probably related to their policy of preferring secondary sources[1]. (Without a link to the article in question though I can only guess.) You could argue this is a bad policy, but it's certainly not a new one.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research...

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Re:Why do I care the open web is dying? by tw25261371 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @02:20AM (#25263154)
Not at all. If a journalist interviews someone and then goes to print, and a Wikipedia article is trying to cite a source for something the interviewee said, you don't need another organization to quote the part of the article where the interviewee's words appear in order for a secondary source to come into existence. The article where the quote was first printed is a valid secondary source.
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