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[–] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (6 children)

It’s very much the work of humans with all the challenges that entails. However

However liberals will disregard the idea that Wikipedia isn't an unattenuated connection to pure truth out of hand. That's why I call it scripture; the idea that it has pervasive biases and inaccuracies is rejected without consideration; anything it states has considered true without possibility of question, even if the source Wikipedia is using would never be believed if it wasn't getting laundered through Wikipedia.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 weeks ago* (5 children)

    You seem to be painting with a very broad brush there. I've never considered Wikipedia to be free of these problems, I doubt there is any reference work that is completely objectively true.

    But it tries to be better one edit at a time.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    I'm generalising. You may not be guilty of this, but your average western liberal is. See, for example, other comments in this thread.

    But it tries to be better one edit at a time.

    You're attaching a spiritual quality to an inanimate thing. Wikipedia doesn't "try" to be anything.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    fine, replace "it" with "the community" if the impersonal subject confuses you.

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