• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    11 days ago

    This kind of shit was so common before the Internet. Encyclopedias would have completely wrong information or would cite just one source that was outdated.

    The way Wikipedia does stuff is so much better.

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      11 days ago

      you realize that’s how printed media works, right?

      if you read a book from 1960, it won’t have any info from the past 60 years. what they do, is typically re-issue the book with the new info every 5-20 years, depending.

      they are putting out new editions of books i read in college 20 years ago, that include updated citations and scholarship.