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Re:Toxic comments are associated with reduced volunteer edit... by ziddoap on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @12:29PM (#38534008)
>Otherwise any random social media influencer could be included if they publish their content in various formats.

I have yet to hear a compelling reason why this would be a bad thing. Are you able to expand on why?

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Re:Toxic comments are associated with reduced volunteer edit... by EnigmaFlare on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @02:42PM (#38535938)
I'm guessing because of self-promotion as well as the fact that if nobody's written about them, they probably aren't that significant. Wikipedia says it's not meant to be a collection of all human knowledge.
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