So its obviously not just wikipedias invention, but a wider phenomenon.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
That doesn't make a difference, IMO. There were all sorts of wrong statements before wikipedia, but it wouldn't reflect well on wikipedia if they presented them.
The photo of the Apollo 11 display shown in the thread was taken from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded in 2008 [0].
The other one, with Pope Benedict seated next to a red-tiara'd flag comes from archivio.quirinale.it, the official archives of the Italian presidency [1].
[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Vatican_City_lun...
[1] https://archivio.quirinale.it/image-h/Ciampi/grandi_immagini...
https://twitter.com/scheeko/status/1639673883719618562
It's one of the 139 images linked from here:
https://archivio.quirinale.it/aspr/diari/EVENT-002-021416/pr...
Named:
ASPR_SG-USC_09-SCALFARO_f2603_0094_ST.jpg
On the right from the Pope John Paul II and the flag with the red detail is Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, the president of Italy from 1992 to 1999.
Noted in that discussion by Francisco Feijó Delgado, @scheeko Mar 25, 2023.