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I looked it up and Wikipedia says that Wikipedia is pretty reliable, so that settles it for me.

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I looked it up and Wikipedia says that Wikipedia is pretty reliable, so that settles it for me.

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Saymalyn Aradji Sabdaini-jimenez

Kay Stansberry

...why is it yellow tho

Neb Saitiam

I used Wikipedia in school anyway and just cited Wikipedia's sources.

Jeta Jeta

wiki is pretty good for science, engineering etc but politics not so much

Robin Guillory Franks

I've seen many mistakes in Wikipedia. Namely, production numbers are inconsistent with manufacturers in some cases.

Ajay C. Arellano

Wikipedia is a starting point, not the end goal.

Nook Luvin Hers Stiff

I once wrote at wikipedia (russian) that german ww2 mortar shells were unreliable and can explode in mortar, was just arguing with a friend that anyone can write whatever they want in wikipedia... Now I see this words in many historical sites, and can't actually delete this from wikipedia.

Karl Wilbanks

Nah, there's a lot of shite on Wikipedia if you move slightly away from the stronger corrective streams.

Crystal Huey

At least german wikipedia is really bad, people remove your edits cause they dont like them and so on

Milliy Davis

My Geomorphlogy lecturer once gave us an essay on certain desert-rock formations created by wind which we had to back up with references. He created a fake wikipedia article for a false formation and busted anyone who tried to write about it.

Bunnary Hang

And yet according to the wiki page for electricity usage in Sub-Saharan Africa, about 800 million people use the equivalent power of running a 100 space heaters 24/7 for a year. Oh what is that? The source is from a book written in 1972? Ah OK, maybe put that in the damn article then. This article is still unchanged and has been up for longer than a year, when I last checked. That's why most people will tell hmyou to use Wikipedia as a search engine where you can start with a basic overview and then follow the sources, but don't believe everything as it is stated.

Vickie Osborne

Its an effort to protect bad teachers. If a person can go to wikipedia or simply read a textbook and come our better informed than a person who had a class on a subject, thats a bad teacher.

Kylie Hood

In my first language Wiki literally sucks. I've seen cases when actual documents from archives, available on request, were rejected as sources ("because access is limited" - access to books is also limited because, you know, you have to go to store and buy them). At the same time, for the same topic, the same mod approved tabloid articles.

Janet Castillo

Yeah, the problem is that the editors in power often curate the pages without real oversight and absolute power. There is a very well made documentary on YouTube on how bias Wikipedia can be because of that. Sure, there are sources on the bottom, but that doesn't mean very much. If I write an article on how vaccines cause autism, cite the Wakefield study and then actively supress any other sources on the page because I am a trusted editor and high up in my little circle, then boom: unreliable wiki article. Might not work for something as well known as the vaccine thing, but how much do you know about the Armenian genocide? The Muslim genocide in India? Chinese concentration camps? Got the point?

Matilda Lot

Yet entire pages based on undesirable information (such as 'Cultural Marxism') get removed. Sure it's reliable if all you want to think is what you're told to think.

Muhammad Naseer

wiki is ureliable and has been used as a political mean, use infogalactic

Sam Mckay

Here. Let me put this in a way you'll understand: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_text#Secondary_and_tertiary en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_source

Melissa Huotari Carlson

In my mis-spent youth I did some vandalizing of Wikipedia. I'm no proud of it now, but I did do it. For quite a while I had my friend's name inserted in dozens of pages. It was harmless stuff for the most part, just inserting his name as spokesman of a company or as inventor of some minor thing. Some of those pages lasted for months and months before it was discovered and all came tumbling down. The point is that it IS possible to have bad information on Wikipedia. I generally consider it 99% reliable, but if you're trying to use it as a source for things, there is a real, if slim, danger of using bad information. The solution is to simply check the sources and use those as your sources for whatever you're citing.

Darla Davis

I used wiki when it first came around, i edited so many pages and they wouldn't be changed for almost 2 weeks

Cindy Parent

That's why you cite the sources on wikipedia lol. Worse case is I use it as a launching point to get some interesting information and look for my own sources from Scholarly stuff to support it.

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