> Don’t be afraid of destroying things. Wikipedia isn’t unique or precious really.

Surely you’re joking?

Before LLMs, Wikipedia was the greatest source of misinformation in all of human history. It is at best good for satiating an idle curiosity with some plausible-sounding fun facts to amuse oneself with without care for whether they're really true or not, but so many people rely on it for so much more, and I have little doubt it causes more harm than good. Real encyclopedias with professional standards exist.

That’s very correct. Wikipedia has been an unending source of failing exams among my students.

What do you teach?

What truly grinds my gears about Wikipedia isn't the amount of false information but the amount of uncorroborated info. The amount of times I've read an article that made large, sweeping claims about something and then not have any citations, often not even a "citation needed" box should be frankly unacceptable.

Come help! Here's the August 2026 unreferenced articles backlog drive, with instructions and a leaderboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Unrefere...

I hope they mean the project is precious but the formal organisation that funds the project isn't. Like Firefox and Mozilla.

You are clearly deteriorating and self destructive, especially as evidenced by your recent flagged "randomize skin tone" rant.

Well do you apologize for threatening my life, and rescind your death threats? Or are you still threatening to shoot me?

You need to stop making death threats on Hacker News, get rid of your gun, and get help.

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