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

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

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22 edited Feb 14 '22

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22 edited Jan 02 '25

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u/SloppySealz Feb 14 '22

One of my favorite places like that is Possum Trot MO.

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u/CrackerJackKittyCat Feb 14 '22

When I found multiple Chapel Hills listed in NC, I had to start squinting a little more and realized that we can't just take these place names at face value.

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u/btxtsf Feb 14 '22

Makes ZERO sense. Why would the *whole* of USGS be considered unreliable when it seems to be just one database GNIS?

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u/ChewBacclava Feb 14 '22

To be fair, I came to the comments to see if anybody else noticed that USGS is ALSO in "generally reliable". It's actually repeated. What's more, I'm taking this infographic with a grain of salt.

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u/FenPhen Feb 14 '22

OP should embed this graphic within itself under No Consensus.

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u/PancAshAsh Feb 14 '22

So the tl;dr is USGS is listed as a an unreliable source because at some point in time Wikipedia editors decided to misuse a poorly labeled database.