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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • There’s nothing intrinsically non-primary in the format. At the end of the day they’re collaborative writing projects, split into pages with internal and external links; it’s just that the biggest one out there happens to be tertiary.

    This is an accurate point. Thanks for the correction. I think what I should have said is that the biggest one has that policy and, as a result, there is a trend of others following suit.


  • Wikis are not really a defense against this issue, they are by nature a secondary or (occasionally by policy) a tertiary source of information. Once the source they are recoding does so does the value of that page on the wiki. From the OP:

    54% of Wikipedia pages contain at least one link in their “References” section that points to a page that no longer exists.