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Wikipedia’s Pyrrhic Victory
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this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2026
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The reason I down voted you is you're ignoring duplicative information...
And mainly because instead of asking questions to learn, you just went off with a halfbaked thought and presented it like it was fact.
Do better
I certainly ignored "duplicative information", because I don't even know what those words are supposed to mean.
You haven't asked any questions either, you made up a claim and are now seemingly very insulted when an obvious correction is pointed out. Those two sites contain hundreds upon hundreds of thosands of entire books, entire encyclopedias, and god knows how many scientific articles, inevitably way more stuff than Wikipedia. Every Wikipedia editor should have them open in a tab while editing ready to verify the existing sources and look for new ones.
How many websites about Pokemon do you think are archived?
How much of that info is duplicative (meaning it exists multiple times)?
If 2 gigs of data all says charmander evolves into charazard, why is that worth more than a single text string saying it once?
I already understand it...
You don't even know what "duplicative" means, and were too lazy to even look it up, you just wanted to argue about how your opinion matters more than facts.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duplicative
With no context I didn't know what you might have meant by "duplicative information". Now it makes sense, apparently you think Internet Archive is just Wayback Machine, with its archived duplicate Pokemon websites. Which is comically false, try to dial down your arrogance. Perhaps you could have asked questions about whether I really think Internet Archive's collection of Pokemon sites contains more knowledge than Wikipedia, or maybe something else:
What did they do with the books after they scanned them?
Made them free to access and download, if the book is in the public domain or under a Creative Commons license. Allowed limited access if copyrighted (through some weirdly legal solution where they technically "loan" the book to you while you view it in your browser), although that option has been partly limited in the recent years due to lawsuits by book publishers.
https://archive.org/details/texts
No I mean like the physical books. What happened to them after they were scanned?
Congrats bud.
You kept going long enough I'll never try to clarify anything for you again, every single reply you make to one of my comments from here on out will not receive any further clarification and you'll always believe it's 100% correct.
It won't be, but I won't see it to tell you that anymore.
So you win, enjoy it.
Edit:
2-0 bud!
Apparently I blocked your original account already, the streak continues
As if you tried to clarify anything up until this point anyway 🤣
Eh. They've got a history out the ass of being rude shits, you're just the latest. Block them and move on.