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Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia (www.rollingstone.com)
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[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Also, again, there are absolutely editors who will just wordlessly revert objective, factual edits, with clear, proper citations from accepted primary sources...

That might be the misunderstanding. Primary sources are not directly allowed on wikipedia without very careful consideration that no analysis was done. Wikipedia article are, and should be, mostly derived from secondary sources to avoid bias. The Wikipedia page does a pretty good job of describing the guideline:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research