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fwipsytoday at 1:59 AM1 replyview on HN

The point of Wikipedia is to be accurate, not complete. Wikipedia does not want to just trust the developers of $ObscureLang to maintain their own wikipedia page. So, the existence of the $ObscureLang page (and, in the aggregate, many similar pages) imposes a maintenance burden on Wikipedia. Better to say nothing than to risk saying something inaccurate.


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greyface-today at 2:02 AM

> The point of Wikipedia is to be accurate, not complete

The point of Wikipedia is to be verifiable, not accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability,_not_t...

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