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BMaker11 on 27 August 2014
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OmegaRed421 said:
BMaker11 said:

What I really want to know is if it only ("only" is probably the wrong word to use) sold 600k in the first week, why is Wikipedia saying it sold 1.5M in 24 hours.


Because that key word in your question. Good for for general info but too many people can edit them for their own reasons.

Wikipedia is as accurate as the Encyclopedia Brittanica. So it's good for more than "general info". And I don't think how many units a game has sold is "specific info" that is out of the realm of Wikipedia being correct about. On the same page, it has TLOU PS3 at 7M. That's an accurate figure, right? Or is that "general info" that should be called into question because too many people can edit the page?

More importantly, when Wiki sees that people are editing in incorrect or irrelevant information, it is quickly removed. It's why, for example, when the Seahawks won the Super Bowl, it said "SUCK IT PEYTON" somewhere in there on the Super Bowl XLVIII page, and it was gone in like 2 minutes.

TLOU:R has been at 1.5M in 24 hours for nearly a month. For as quickly as Wikipedia is known for correcting information, that's a pretty pertinent piece of information that hasn't been changed back due to being wrong.