# Why does iNat use Wikipedia as a reference?

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/why-does-inat-use-wikipedia-as-a-reference/34348>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** web, question, android-app, ios-classic-app, taxonomy\
**Created:** [August 10, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/why-does-inat-use-wikipedia-as-a-reference/34348 "2022-08-10T22:15:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/why-does-inat-use-wikipedia-as-a-reference/34348/2 "2022-08-10T22:20:29Z")

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There’s an [existing topic](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/should-wikipedia-be-used-as-a-qualified-resource-for-inaturalist/31285) with basically the same question. I’m going to close this but please feel free to chime in there.

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