NATOpedia removes ISIS as Israeli ally
NATOpedia removes ISIS as Israeli ally
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This is why your elementary school teacher didn't accept Wikipedia as a source. Actually, is that still a thing in schools? It's honestly infuriating to see how normalized it's becoming to use Wikipedia as a source of absolute unbiased truth is especially for the things the West hates. You give someone on Lemmy ten different primary sources and they go "duuh Wikipedia says you're wrong" which gets you ratioed to hell and back. And if you point out the glaring issues with Wikipedia they just accuse you of being a Chinese bot because they can't even fathom how Wikipedia can possibly not be reliable.
Also, the people defending Wikipedia usually use the argument that it uses a lot of primary sources. Great! Cite those sources then, not Wikipedia. It's not a substitute for primary sources just because it uses them. Actually look through the sources vs the article body and you'll find TONS of citations on Wikipedia where the source material is misinterpreted, out of context, doesn't even mention the topic, or even straight up contradicts the claim being cited. Weirdly enough those kinds of mistakes don't get moderated nearly as often when they're in line with Western propaganda vs a rebuttal to it, wonder why.
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Actually, is that still a thing in schools?
Its AI trained on wikipedia articles now
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I haven't combed through the recent edits, but the most recent version of the Gaza War article lists the folllowing
(isis not listed above)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
keep in mind this page was originally titled Israel Hamas war, wikipedia is a battle ground, there's a lot of people putting in the time, doing the work
I won't surrender wikipedia, if there are communists involved, we will always win.
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For clarification: It used to list ISIS under Israel with the ISIS flag next to it. And that was accurate.
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I have. The edit in question was made yesterday at 7 am-ish and reverted within 2 hours. In that time, editors reached a consensus that the person who made the change had an ideological motivation to defame Palestinians, topic blocked them the poster, then a revert was submitted. It was posted to X and then shared here while that happened. By the time I responded below, it was already corrected.
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Liberals, think about it when you're going post yet another pro-US hit piece from that place as gotcha.
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This link was originally added about 3 months ago by a single user and then removed by another, and ISIS was previously listed as an Israeli ally. Wikipedia is not a monolith.
ISIS was on the Israeli side. Which it literally is with the Abu Shabab gang.
Yes, and it still is on the Israeli side under 'Popular forces'. The article for Popular Forces specifically mentions abu-shabab.
My mistake: ISIS was added as a Hamas ally and removed TODAY. Within 2 hours of being posted.
people of the west rely on wikipedia as a news source; so it's ALWAYS being watched.