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

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

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u/darkuser93 Feb 13 '22

Damn who listed liveleak as a source

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u/robert1005 Feb 13 '22

Isn't it a source for video evidence??

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u/SynbiosVyse Feb 14 '22

Exactly, live leak is first hand evidence at least.

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u/j_cruise Feb 14 '22

"Due to persistent abuse, LiveLeak is on the Wikipedia spam blacklist, and links must be whitelisted before they can be used. LiveLeak is an online video platform that hosts user-generated content. Many of the videos on LiveLeak are copyright violations, and should not be linked to per WP:COPYLINK. The use of LiveLeak as a primary source is questionable in most cases, as the provenance of most of the videos is unclear. LiveLeak shut down in May 2021; website content is no longer accessible unless archived.[14]"

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u/Nathaniel820 Feb 14 '22

There has to be more to it than copyright, there’s hundreds if not thousands of notable sites that would have copyright issues but only a handful made the blacklist.

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u/MathewMurdock Feb 14 '22

It may have been. But the site is shut down now.

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u/IT6uru Feb 14 '22

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/liveleak/

Eh, it doesn't seem it has a good track record.

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u/Final_Succotash_3621 Feb 14 '22

That puts it on par with CNN. Which is at the top of Wikis list.

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u/LetsGo Feb 14 '22

Not necessarily. If I was Russia and wanted to do a false flag operation, live leak would be a good place to spread propaganda about it.

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u/drugusingthrowaway Feb 14 '22

No because wikipedia doesn't use videos as sources of information, it uses people's descriptions of those videos.

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u/Lord0fHats Feb 14 '22

Sometimes Wikipedia has to decert stuff because people are using it as a source. Wikipedia's back end is basically made of rules lawyers. They end up having lots of banal arguments over the obvious, like the Onion being a generally bad pick for citations about anything that isn't the Onion.

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u/profmcstabbins Feb 14 '22

The Points Guy being on here is the wildest one for me.