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I've been editing here^[a] since 2005, off and on, but I've learnt a lot more than I've contributed.

For he has not written what was said nor the true sense of what was said, but instead offers what he thinks should have been said, and enumerates in all these speeches the concomitant details like someone at school trying his hand at a set theme; as if he were making a display of his own ability but not offering an account of what was truly spoken.
— Polybius 12.25a, ^[1]

Yet despite all the failures, preconceptions and deceptions, Wikipedia's a marvel.

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^ Marincola, John, ed. (2017). On writing history: from Herodotus to Herodian. Penguin classics. London: Penguin Books. pp. 96–97. ISBN 978-0-14-139357-5. OCLC 991754046.

[2] Marincola, John, ed. (2017). On writing history: from Herodotus to Herodian. Penguin classics. London: Penguin Books. pp. 96–97. ISBN 978-0-14-139357-5. OCLC 991754046.

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