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This is such a strange response. Byuu's two posts later in the thread contain several corrections, particularly on their alleged cartridge hoarding behavior. It invalidates the claims of the original post while not denying any of the evidence was true. A well sourced Wikipedia article can still be biased. The presence of sources isn't mutually exclusive with bias.

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> It invalidates the claims of the original post while not denying any of the evidence was true.

So the evidence is still true, then? And the paragraph at the top of the OP states that it is slightly out of date.

> A well sourced Wikipedia article can still be biased.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/978/

I'm increasingly becoming convinced Wikipedia is a toxic garbage dump. The Wii U article states that it had the fewest game releases of any Nintendo console. I tried adding the words "…since the Virtual Boy" to turn that into a factually correct statement and it got reverted. I don't have the time to get into a slapfight with another editor about facts, so the incorrect statement remains. Whatever.

I've found that sometimes it is better to add a {{fact}} macro to incorrect information, and let others do the hard work.

Contributing to Wikipedia is unfortunately hard to navigate, with a lot of social trickery required just to get blatant incorrect information fixed.

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