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Re:School vs. Wikipedia by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday October 07, 2022 @12:47PM (#33123803)
> Wikipedia isn't even a valid source for Wikipedia itself,

First-hand direct presence isn't even a valid source for Wikipedia. Part of my account of the founding of amazon.com was removed because it wasn't "backed up by published citable sources". I pointed out that I would be the primary source cited by any such source, and was told that wasn't good enough: the contents had to be published somewhere else and then cited on Wikipedia.

Re:School vs. Wikipedia by Kim_Bruning on Friday October 07, 2022 @01:07PM (#33124079)
Originally it was permitted, but too many people abused this and wasted a lot of volunteer time. :-(

Now you need to get cited by someone else before wikipedia will accept it. (and preferably someone else needs to be cited too of course)

Re:School vs. Wikipedia by bombcar on Friday October 07, 2022 @01:17PM (#33124248)
It's outsourcing verification, and it mostly works, but "small tidbits" like you find in Hacker News comments now and then will likely never make it.
Re:School vs. Wikipedia by skybrian on Friday October 07, 2022 @02:34PM (#33125227)
That's a good rule.

Anything you write on Wikipedia is written in "anonymous worker bee" mode. It doesn't count as written by you, even if you wrote it. Any editor could change what you wrote.

If you want to tell the story of something that happened at Amazon, you should write an article on your own website and publish it under your own name. Then anyone can cite it (including Wikipedia) as written by you, and it can't be changed or removed without your consent.

(Some might not think a personal blog is a good enough citation, but that's their problem.)

Re:School vs. Wikipedia by jacobolus on Friday October 07, 2022 @02:56PM (#33125460)
Personal blogs, facebook posts, self-published papers on arxiv, web forum comments, etc. are not in general credible sources (for Wikipedia’s purposes) but can be in this kind of circumstance.

PaulDavisThe1st: you should definitely publish your anecdote(s) and corrections somewhere, and not just for Wikipedia’s benefit.