Welcome to Twitter, where everyone thinks they're an expert at literally everything and will give you second-hand embarrassment while trying to prove their pointless points. A beautiful Twitter exchange like that happened yesterday when a few ‘desi’ people tried to argue about how Wikipedia works, with, wait for it, the founder of Wikipedia. It all started with some questioning why a Wikipedia page was deleted and I mean asking questions are fine but the entire bribing narrative? Oof.

Just googled and found this,@Wikipedia how much were you paid for this?

How much will our media and woke intellectuals hide their wrong doings? pic.twitter.com/jnMUIYkram — Nicki minach (@nickiminachhh) April 16, 2020

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, decided to resolve the matter but that would be in vain.

Hi Nicki,



Wikipedia doesn't work that way. We don't accept payment to include things, nor to delete them.



The relevant discussion is here:https://t.co/xwMuxEccjq — Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) April 16, 2020

The argument continued with Jimmy again telling how it works on HIS site.

Wikipedia doesn't work like that. We engage in serious rational discussion. It's very different from the madhouse of twitter. — Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) April 16, 2020

He's not even talking about religion, he's talking about how Wikipedia works and well, I would think that he's somewhat of an expert on it.

I don't recommend that you do that - it is important to join the discussion. In actual fact, the article was incredibly poorly written and has zero sources. https://t.co/W19OXEBwFY



This isn't about religious sentiments, it's about not putting junk into Wikipedia. — Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) April 16, 2020

The man is just trying to tell them the quality of whatever is written on different pages matters and they're still not listening.

Did you look at the article? Please do so and then try to tell me with a straight face that it was quality.



Wikipedia is not about "lefts propaganda" - that's just a slur by people who haven't bothered to actually look into it. — Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) April 16, 2020

He's still trying to politely diffuse the situation and is even open to a discussion. Reliable sources are required by people; it's not that hard of a concept to grasp.

Reliable sources for a start. You have zero references, much less references to quality sources. The fact that this probably belongs as a part of another article (I can't say for sure) would also be a valid question to discuss. — Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) April 16, 2020

Just to fill the gaps since the tweet Jimmy is replying to below has been deleted but the person basically said that almost every article on Wikipedia doesn't have sources. Yep, people are that thick.

Almost every article on Wikipedia has sources. Are you on drugs? — Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) April 16, 2020

One would think it can't get worse than this, but just wait for it. Someone thought this was actually a valid argument to put forward.

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I can feel his frustration through the screen.



Poor guy is getting brain damage because of a stupid ass chick who can’t even cite her sources https://t.co/jaHlyyThrq — Gaytri (@kantatabatata) April 16, 2020

Same.

I'm never leaving this app. Never.

Where else do you get to see the Wikipedia founder take down stupid trolls in his free time. ️ https://t.co/p2ApXzvQQv — A (@_khwabida) April 16, 2020

The quality content we need.

Jimmy Wales giving it back to trolls is genuinely the highest point of quarantine this week. https://t.co/Xdj5OU7XEw — Floyd (@floydian_sleep) April 16, 2020

I would personally like to say thank you to everyone involved, this was way too hilarious.

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