Nonsense. Wikipedia is a goldmine of information. You simply have to use your judgment about which articles contain fact and which contain opinion. In general, the hard science articles are factually correct, as are the articles related to pop culture. Those articles related to history, social issues, and politics each contain a mixture of fact and opinion. It is the user’s responsibility to sift the fact from the opinion.
The same is true of any source of information. All sources are biased to some degree. In any quest for information, the best one can do is to sample as many sources of data as possible and use one’s judgment to synthesize an opinion from them.
You should see what early Encyclopedia Britannica said about the Irish. Clear bias.
It isn’t nonsense, and the article proves the point. What Connolly is doing is trying to pass his propaganda as “hard science” and not a subjective science with a “he said, she said” unprovable theory motif, like sociology.
If they can lie with impunity and put down as scientific fact things that are not true - then how can you say it is a goldmine of information. Maybe to find the birthday of a celebrity - and that is still questionable. Let’s put it this way - if I were a judge and you were a prosecutor using wiki evidence - that case would be thrown out and the accused would be walking the street.
Wikipedia is adulterated, it is like Chinese pet food, some of it might be good and some of it will kill your cat. Its “facts” are the fruit of the poison tree and I would submit that wiki needs much more discipline before this is student eligible. This is why many teachers have outright banned it as a resource.
The judgment you speak of may be resident in some people but I am not confident at all that its dependence nullifies the risk of drinking at this deliberately poisoned well.
The Left knows that wiki is now the primary and sometimes only source for the public of basic information - and they have taken control of the process. This is dangerous.