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by tweaktastic 1379 days ago
I think the main problem with the accuracy of Wikipedia comes into play when reading about events related to politics or similar controversial topics. I have seen plenty of wrong information on Wikipedia related to recent events which I knew for a fact that were wrong because those events happened in my city and the area in which I reside in.

The information related to the field of science is accurate but can't say the same for modern events or history.

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Without even looking, I'm willing to bet that articles related to sex and gender are heavily politicized despite being scientific topics (well, sex at least, gender is questionable). Likely the same for climate change, racial groups, and thousands of other scientific topics.