The same core flows exist in Wikipedia as exist in any example of human information.

1. Incomplete facts
2. Injection of data that has no bearing or is doistortive or is inapplicable.
3. Distorted sequences of events.
4. Skewing importances.
5. Falsifying or distorting time.
6. Contradictory data not resolved.
7. SImply false data.


The more of these flags you get, the worse the data is tot hink with. You get a lot more of these in the rantings of a hot political diatribe, or one of Novak's columns, for example, than you do from anything that survives 24 houras on Wikipedia.


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