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by dragonwriter 1566 days ago
> > 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:

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...