No. Fuck you Snopes. Your site is continually full of bullshit. Anyone who donates to either Snopes or Wikipedia is a god damn fool. The Internet would evolve better tools if both of these pieces of shit went away.

@djsumdog Wikipedia has high quality good content and is relatively not biased (it is sometimes bias).

Snopes on the other hand is a bias piece of shit.

@freemo @djsumdog Wikipedia puts a message into any vessel that can hold one. It's difficult to do for articles like "Identification of alkaline earth cations," but they would if they could.

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@djsumdog

Maybe if you want to consider settled facts stated as fact as being a "bias" sure. ::shrug::

@freemo @djsumdog I'm not going to convince you that Wikipedia admins have a perspective.

@natsock

They do have a perspective. But is a democratic system so their perspective is little more than the perspective of experts on any one subject. There is a lean, as I said, but that lean is towards those facts which are accepted by the expert community on a subject. That said it is only their language that leans towards accepted consensus, they still include contrary opinions no matter how absurd.

@djsumdog

@freemo @djsumdog Not to be contrarian, but Wikipedia is comprised of citations, and the strength demanded of those citations is entirely up to the personal perspective of Wikipedia's admins.

That is how insane and poorly-cited narratives remain stated as fact on Wikipedia's article about the Tulsa Negro Uprising.
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@natsock

Typically a poorly cited article is flagged as such. But yea it does happen.

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