[iammattmurphy]

I’m immediately reminded of John Siracusa’s rant about Wikipedia on his old Hypercritical podcast. This is a lengthy rebuttal from (presumably) a Wikipedia lover that includes a link and timestamp to the original podcast segment [0]

I agree, verifiability makes sense, and truth can’t really be claimed without verification, and so it’s a confusing argument to say: truth should be above verifiability; but I must admit: I find it very strange that some people have information about them on their Wikipedia pages that they’re not able to correct despite _being the person_ because one can only cite a source.

The problem of circular citations exists as well, where an article is cited which itself only cites another article, and it might loop back on itself.

0 - https://www.thewikipedian.net/p/verifiability-truth-john-sir...

[pksebben]

People not being allowed to edit their own page (and by extension, anyone that comes without verifiable info because they could be agents of said person) is an unfortunate need. I refer you to the oft-sockpuppeted page of former airline exec Frank Lorenzo [0]

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Frank_Lorenzo