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Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That’s Only About Roads (gizmodo.com) (gizmodo.com)

submitted 8 months ago by redd@discuss.tchncs.de to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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[–] mannivu@livellosegreto.it 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@woelkchen @Woovie as they said “The New York Times isn’t going to write an article about maintenance on highways in the middle-of-nowhere Texas or Colorado”, so it looks like they add informations that are not always backed with citations

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

as they said “The New York Times isn’t going to write an article about maintenance on highways in the middle-of-nowhere Texas or Colorado”, so it looks like they add informations that are not always backed with citations

I can't speak for US towns in particular but where I live such information is posted on websites all the time, be it the town's official newspaper or a local news website.

When English Wikipedia celebrated the millionth article, the topic was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanhill_railway_station, "a side-platformed suburban railway station in the Jordanhill area in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland." So, that type of information is fine.

[–] mannivu@livellosegreto.it 1 points 8 months ago

@woelkchen sure, but there are some infos that don't have enough notability to be on Wikipedia: for example if a road has a minor renovation that shouldn't be mentioned on Wikipedia, but it could be mentioned on this dedicated wiki