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Around the same year in October, a similar battleboarding site named VS Battles Wiki was created. [1] [5] In the VS Battles Wiki, users can create profiles and power levels of fictional characters, post match-ups in its threads and forums, and list down the winners and losers of these threads in said character profiles. [3] The wiki is ...
A known example is the Sacha Baron Cohen article, where false information added in Wikipedia was apparently used by two newspapers, leading to it being treated as reliable in Wikipedia. [124] [better source needed] This process of creating reliable sources for false facts has been termed "citogenesis" by xkcd webcomic artist Randall Munroe.
Surprisingly, Wikipedia's wiki nature, or open source collaboration, has helped the site prosper and become increasingly popular. As author of the Wikipedia Revolution, Andrew Lih, put it, “what would surely seem to create chaos has actually produced increasingly respected content which has been evaluated and revised by the thousands of ...
Wikipedia's guideline on Reliable sources states that "Articles should be based on reliable, independent, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy." Wikipedia's guideline on Notability states that "A topic is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list when it has received significant coverage in reliable ...
This can adversely affect the new wiki's search rankings, [115] potentially also resulting in outdated or incorrect information being present and viewed more often than the information on the new wiki. Fandom allows only a message directing viewers to a discussion about whether to fork for as long as the discussion is active before the message ...
Wikipedia pages often cite reliable secondary sources that vet data from primary sources. If the information on another Wikipedia page (which you want to cite as the source) has a primary or secondary source, you ought be able to cite that primary or secondary source and eliminate the middleman (or "middle-page" in this case).
Base articles on reliable, independent, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. Source material must be published, on Wikipedia meaning made available to the public in some form. [f] Unpublished material is not considered reliable. Use sources that directly support the material presented in an article and are ...
Wikipedia is not a place to hold grudges or import personal conflicts, nor is it the place to carry on ideological battles or nurture prejudice, hatred, or fear. Making personal battles out of Wikipedia discussions is in direct conflict of Wikipedia's policies and goals, as well as Wikipedia's founding principles. In addition to avoiding ...