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Originally Posted by Gillianren
I will note that Wikipedia tends to be fairly accurate in my preferred fields--though, for films, I prefer the greater scope of information at IMDB. Then again, IMDB doesn't really cover historical inaccuracies as much as they think they do.
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mathematics too--someone at work expressed the theory that there isn't enough difference of opinion on mathematics to cause edit wars, and non-mathematics-knowledgeable people rarely even try to contribute to articles as compared to other subjects where everyone thinks they know the subject because they read a chapter in a book on it once--and the language of mathematics is abstruse enough that vandalism is hard to make subtle.
Even within the field of mathematics, most are knowledgeable of a few topics, and not of others--it's getting to be a big and fragmented discipline, a long way from the days of Euclid when one person could know all the mathematics known to humanity.