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This, but for Wikipedia.
Edit: Ironically, the down votes are really driving home the point in the OP. When you aren't an expert in a subject, you're incapable of recognizing the flaws in someone's discussion, whether it's an LLM or Wikipedia. Just like the GPT bros defending the LLM's inaccuracies because they lack the knowledge to recognize them, we've got Wiki bros defending Wikipedia's inaccuracies because they lack the knowledge to recognize them. At the end of the day, neither one is a reliable source for information.
What topics are you an expert on and can you provide some links to Wikipedia pages about them that are wrong?
I'm a doctor of classical philology and most of the articles on ancient languages, texts, history contain errors. I haven't made a list of those articles because the lesson I took from the experience was simply never to use Wikipedia.
The fun part about Wikipedia is you can take your expertise and help correct the information, that's the entire point of the site
Can you at least link one article and tell us what is wrong about it?
How do you get a fucking PhD but you can't be bothered to post a single source for your unlikely claims? That person is full of shit.