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[–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Especially considering the sources are always listed at the end of the article and most include internet archive links.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Are supposed to, and generally are, but there is a risk of somebody making unsourced changes and you seeing the article before it's caught. Not a big deal for popular articles, but there are a lot of niche topics.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Tons of cited links are utter bunk, just in ways that don't blatantly violate Wikipedia's guidelines. So many references to slop (in the pre-AI sense) books written by people with no real subject matter authority. Actually looking at the sources section makes it a lot more apparent how flawed Wikipedia is for anything that is not cut and dry.

    More websites should archive their linked content. Great practice in general.

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