Yep yep. Fact checkers at any of the magazines I work for would give me serious side-eye if I offered Wikipedia as a source, heh
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Replying to @pomeranian99 @Wikipedia
This was a big eye opener for me, too, in last year or two. I’ve since redoubled efforts to scan and upload original sources to Internet Archive.
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Replying to @mwichary @Wikipedia
A good idea! For me, Wikipedia works *very* well as a way to quickly figure out the overall shape and jargon of a new subject matter. One can (for a longer, multiply-authored/edited article, at any rate) trust the *general gist* of the article, if not every specific detail.
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Which is precisely in line with the "best place to start, but never finish there" way of looking at it ...
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Replying to @pomeranian99
Yep! Get to know the concepts and the vocabulary, fish out the first wave of sources… Has anyone actually written about this? Peeling successively more and more deeper into sources was such a fascinating discovery I’m still learning about.
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Replying to @mwichary @pomeranian99
For example, I learned to appreciate bad self-published memoirs and books – they are usually awful, but there’s one or two anecdotes or trivia in each one that makes it worth it.
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Replying to @alexismadrigal @mwichary
Absolutely, yes -- there's bits of absolute gold hidden inside those books
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Replying to @pomeranian99 @alexismadrigal
Ah!!! So much appreciation. They’re also the most transparent: you can easily see the shape of sour grapes, the scores to settle, the very human desires to be acknowledged now and not forgotten later…
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Replying to @mwichary @alexismadrigal
Heh, absolutely. The grudgebearing in some of those books is worthy of the Illiad, which I mean as a sign of respect
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