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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yep. I was in elementary school in the 80s, so, of course, all of their encyclopedias were from the early 70s and had all kinds of out-of-date information.

Wikipedia may be untrustworthy at times, but at least they try to keep things up to date if there's a major change- like a country no longer exists- the encyclopedias and our globe both showed Vietnam as a divided country.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Wikipedia updates to use the past tense within seconds of a celebrity death, I trust them to keep up with most stuff.