• Mister Neon@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Depends on the subject matter. The less popular subject matters still should be read in books.

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      Depends on how “popular” of a subject it is. There are plenty of subjects on Wikipedia that are not popular enough to have ever been published about in print.

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        4 months ago

        I guess that’s the other side of the coin. I’m a Mesoamerican history nerd and a lot of the articles on Wiki are sparse at best on the subject or outright misinformation (repeated misinformation I see almost verbatim copied and pasted). I see your point though, without an easy way of archiving information a lot of subjects would and have fallen through the cracks in humanity’s notice.