• Manuel 🦡🦡
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    19 months ago

    @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
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      29 months ago

      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.

      • Manuel 🦡🦡
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        19 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