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Annie Rauwerda

Remember when Wikipedia killed the ‘you can help by expanding it’ meme?

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, puts banners at the top of certain articles to alert the reader to potential issues.

There are thousands of them: “This article is a stub,” “This article is written like a résumé,” “This article needs additional citations.” They’re little notices that let you know that an article covers a rapidly-evolving new subject, or perhaps that it contains too many buzzwords or weasel words, or that it lacks information about some crucial aspect of the topic at hand.

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