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“ With Wikipedia accuracy, the question is "is it reliable/accurate enough for x?" A bet over a beer? Sure. A basic orientation on a topic? A lot of the time, yes. Knowing enough about a politician to decide whether to vote for them? Depends on how comprehensive the article is, but usually, yes. To support a key plank of argument in your Ph.D thesis? Hell no. To remove your own appendix? Definitely not. If you have to know with 100% reliability whether or not some particular celebrity is gay or not... yeah, perhaps not. But then, generalist encyclopedias were never really intended for that purpose. ”

— Is Wikipedia, in general, inaccurate? If not, why is it believed to be so? - Quora

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