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lonelappde on Dec 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer”

Wikipedia requires available sources, not reliable sources. Any published website is acceptable, regardless of fact check it standards.

commoner on Dec 12, 2019 [–]

Wikipedia's standards have tightened over time. Its current requirements are much stricter than that:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources

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