Have we just all become googlets. Or something? How does a person get hard copies of stuff for science and other things for a fiscal year? I can further explain if need be.
Have we just all become googlets. Or something? How does a person get hard copies of stuff for science and other things for a fiscal year? I can further explain if need be.
They are almost extinct because it’s now easier than ever to get information actually
Yea but nothing against it like Wikipedia. People can go in there in seconds and change shit fast. So basically if you use it for court or thesis someone could have already changed it and your/my point is moot. Because they edited it. Almost seems like you have get a screen grab of what your looking at then and there with clock showing. Otherwise any fact can be questioned unfairly.
Bad examples, I think. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It’s cooperative and online, but it’s still just an encyclopedia. It’s not even a suitable source for a high school paper, much less anything more substantial.
Others have already noted the edit history. I think your concern about people making bogus changes is overblown. Malicious edits tend to get reversed pretty quickly (but again, double check for anything more important than a Lemmy comment).
Wikipedia has an edit history. You can cite a specific revision if you need to. But you shouldn’t be doing that for court cases or theses, unless it’s about Wikipedia itself.
But the same is true for other sites, they can change without notice too. You’d have to archive a copy.
But then, even in paper reference documents, what’s stopping someone from going to city hall and replacing pages in a binder? Or merely going into court and lying, saying “no THIS is the contract we signed”?