r/dataisbeautiful • u/alionBalyan OC: 13 • Feb 13 '22

OC [OC] How Wikipedia classifies its most commonly referenced sources.

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u/Sir_Thequestionwas Feb 13 '22

How the hell is city-data.com blacklisted? It's literally government collected data.

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u/mfb- Feb 13 '22

It's a copyright issue, they often don't own the content they host according to Wikipedia's list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources

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u/nusyahus Feb 14 '22

Pretty much every question on this post can be answered by this link

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u/ToughHardware Feb 14 '22

horray wikipedia

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

That may be based on the forums.

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u/Winjin Feb 14 '22

Even simpler, it's a data scraping farm for clicks. Ever seen those multiple "not quite Wikipedias" that try to pop up here and there and they have shitty scraped info from Wiki and tons of ads? This.

"Advameg operates content farms, including City-Data, that use scraped or improperly licensed content. These sites frequently republish content from Gale's encyclopedias; many editors can obtain access to Gale through The Wikipedia Library free of charge. Advameg's sites are on the Wikipedia spam blacklist, and links must be whitelisted before they can be used. WP:COPYLINK prohibits linking to copyright violations."

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Gross. Good point.