> > Wikipedia's job isn't to push forward the frontiers of knowledge. It's to summarize the stuff you can look up elsewhere.
> Citation needed.
The exact policy under discussion in this sub thread (and, to a lesser extent, the other two in Wikipedia’s trio of core content policies) is exactly a statement of this:
To push forward the frontiers of knowledge is literally not the point of an encyclopedia, by definition. Even if it was, how could you see frontier pushing happen with volunteer editors ? With more unsourced/trust me bro/self describes experts editing online? I kind of doubt that
> Citation needed.
The exact policy under discussion in this sub thread (and, to a lesser extent, the other two in Wikipedia’s trio of core content policies) is exactly a statement of this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_resear...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_v...