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Originally Posted by jersysman
What exactly is Wikipedia for anyway? Is it not an information dump? A place where information is kept on various subjects? I can see where rumors as such should not be used as fact, but one thing it is not is a media source where you should have independent corroboration. If that were the case, nothing would be published on that site.
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What it is is something were you have to have independent sources to publish anything. Which is a good thing. In that way they try to use the other sources work in confirming the claims. It is not for original data or information.