Established consensus, or a contestable mechanism

Wikipedia's core rule is that it reports what reliable sources already say. That is exactly why it cannot hold the thing this site is for: a claim nobody has established yet.

The short answer

Wikipedia summarises what is known. A model proposes how something works and names what would show that it does not.

No original research is a feature, not a limitation — it is what makes an encyclopedia trustworthy. An article converges on the consensus reading, and edit wars resolve toward what sources support.

A model is the opposite object: one person's account of a mechanism, offered because it is contestable. It does not aim for consensus; it aims to be specific enough to be shown wrong. Two models of the same domain can disagree, both stay listed, and their records diverge as reality resolves.

The garden even keeps refuted models listed with their records showing — an encyclopedia would rightly correct the article and move on.

Side by side

Wikipedia	Model Meets Reality
Reports established consensus	Registers a contestable mechanism
No original research	Original by construction
Converges on one article	Rival models coexist and diverge on record
Corrected when wrong	Kept when wrong, with the record visible
Enormous, trusted, checked	Small, unproven, self-graded

What Wikipedia does better

Scale, reliability, and decades of accumulated editorial discipline. For anything already known, Wikipedia is better than any model here will be — and most of what a model's premises rest on was probably learned from it.

Where this stands today

Said plainly, because the whole point of this site is not overclaiming. The Model Garden is opening small — no models listed as of September 2026. Every record shown is self-graded: the author's own count of claims made and resolved, labelled as such on each card. Nothing here is ranked, and no independent resolution layer exists yet. Wikipedia has things this does not, named above rather than omitted. Compare the designs, not the scoreboards — there is no scoreboard.

https://github.com/someone/their-model Help me use this

Paste that into any assistant. It reads the model — premises, falsifiers, deletion clause — and reasons through it.

The difference that is not on the table

Wikipedia lets you publish. It cannot tell you that you were wrong. An essay can be argued with forever; nothing in it says which observation would settle it, or when. A model has to name a falsifier and a date, and then that date arrives whether or not the author still likes the argument. Same act of writing in public — with a clock attached.

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