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There are so many Wikipedia articles which have extremely poor cited works, like literally just somebody’s crappy blog.


Yes, like many of humankind's creations, it is not perfect.


That’s fine with me. What I’m taking issue with here is the assertion that “factual assertions must largely be supported by (some metric) of published sources”. In reality, those sources are often extremely low quality, so it’s not really a useful point.




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