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So Dave Fleming, we both started in this business in journalism as fact checkers at Sports Illustrated.

Yes, please.

Unless you've fact-checked a Gary Smith bonus piece over a long weekend, don't even talk to me about

facts and figures and whatnot. It is a glorious fraternity. I'm glad to be in with you, Dave. We

had to, like, cross out individual words to make sure everything was accurate. And so to do an

episode with you here today about Wikipedia, it almost feels like

a perverse betrayal of our roots, to be honest. Yes, because you remember back then it was

do not use Wikipedia as a source. You cannot use Wikipedia as a source. Now, I may have

used Wikipedia as a source, but yeah,

Wikipedia is this incredible tool of knowledge, maybe the greatest in the history of

humankind, but you still can't rely on it for factual information. No, Dave, it's this

dystopian library of Alexandria.

And in sports in specific, the things we're supposed to be fact-checking here,

it's especially worrisome because there is a particular problem in sports, Dave,

that you've reported on here, which is what?

Yeah, it's actually kind of fascinating that people, sports fans actually come to Wikipedia

for maybe first and foremost reference and stats, but there's actually a unique thing about

Wikipedia sports is that it's known for this kind of vandalism and this kind of humor and

this sort of weird aspect of sports fans venting through Wikipedia.

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