{"id":50030,"date":"2023-07-14T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=50030"},"modified":"2023-07-13T09:47:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T13:47:36","slug":"qotd-resolving-disagreements-on-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/07\/14\/qotd-resolving-disagreements-on-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Resolving &#8220;disagreements&#8221; on Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>I keep telling anybody who&#8217;ll listen, anytime the subject comes up: <em>Always<\/em> go to the Wikipedia talk page when you do your &#8220;researching&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>! Take what you read in the main article with a huge grain of salt if you find a big back-and-forth melee going on in the talk page, for you can take it to the bank that if there&#8217;s a disagreement going on between conservative and liberal editors, it will be &#8220;resolved&#8221; by way of the liberal editors locking the article down after they&#8217;ve made sure to get the last word in. Which means what you&#8217;ve just read is mostly nothing but pure bovine product. If you&#8217;re gleaning this information for any kind of actual <em>purpose<\/em>, it goes without saying that this is something you should know. Information is meaningless without the &#8220;meta data&#8221;; without context.<\/p>\n<p>And if there isn&#8217;t anything going on back there at all, you should probably still take the main article with a grain of salt because you might be reading a bunch of &#8220;everybody knows&#8221; gibberish without too much thought behind it.<\/p>\n<p>M.K. Freeberg, <!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/latest-wikipedia-talk-page-mess-socialism\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">-->&#8220;Latest Wikipedia Talk Page Mess: Socialism&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2012-12-01.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep telling anybody who&#8217;ll listen, anytime the subject comes up: Always go to the Wikipedia talk page when you do your &#8220;researching&#8221; on Wikipedia! Take what you read in the main article with a huge grain of salt if you find a big back-and-forth melee going on in the talk page, for you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,41,15],"tags":[431,1020,444],"class_list":["post-50030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-technology","tag-conservatism","tag-progressives","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-d0W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83554,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50030\/revisions\/83554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}