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Re:Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior by coffeeblack on Sunday July 31, 2022 @07:44AM (#32294908)
The problem is that the news sources that Wp trusts have gone completely bananas over the past decade.
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Re:Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior by tomrod on Sunday July 31, 2022 @07:50AM (#32294930)
Citation, please.
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Re:Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior by specialist on Sunday July 31, 2022 @09:15AM (#32295285)
IIRC, as an example, Newsweek lost its trusted status as it adopted a news tabloid format. Further, they no longer have fact checkers and do not print corrections. Surely that's a disqualification right there.

Though I don't see that specific criteria listed:

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

FWIW, here's Wikipedia's roundup of sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...

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Re:Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior by tomrod on Sunday July 31, 2022 @12:17PM (#32296576)
If a news source loses reliability and wiki no longer uses it, how does that support the claim that wiki sources are bad?
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Re:Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior by vanattab on Sunday July 31, 2022 @08:43AM (#32295136)
Just ask anyone over 40...
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Re:Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior by phdelightful on Sunday July 31, 2022 @08:55AM (#32295197)
I wish those people over 40 hadn't put a US government in place that abolished the fairness doctrine. Then our news sources would probably not be so bananas.
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Re:Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior by andsoitis on Sunday July 31, 2022 @11:35AM (#32296253)
> IRC, as an example, Newsweek lost its trusted status

Precisely, it lost its trusted status, but the GP posts that WP trusts publications that have gone bananas. So your example speaks in favor of Wikipedia's reliability.

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Re:Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior by tomrod on Sunday July 31, 2022 @12:17PM (#32296567)
That is not a citation. It's an appeal to generational bias, and fails miserably.

Please provide an appropriate citation.

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