Do you trust Wikipedia?

From the George Bush thread.

Of course, the above quote is from wikipedia. Should you choose to trust the content... that is up to you.

 

2nd post...Cool..
From the information provided above...it doesnt sound so...yeah.

 

ive found wikipedia to be extremely inaccurate on several occasions. specifically when i was looking for tryptamine containing/entheogenic plants.
most of the acacia's they have listed there dont have ANY tryptamine content whatsoever.

 

I don't trust the articles that anyone can edit, and dislike it when someone posts Wikipedia as a source to back them up.

 

me and my buds from skool edited the actor chris kleins page!! were ffin hardcore

 

But doesn't the power of free edit keep things current and free of disputes?

 

I trust it on a few kind of things. General historical information is usually fairly accurate, and pretty much anything else that doesn't get too controversial. Most of the important topics they end up locking anyway. I do agree that every once in a while you get a bum article though.

 

lol, if the history teachers dumb enuf to give me an a+ for copy and pasting from wikipedia, i think i trust it.

 

hmm.....I didnt get a "a+" but got a 47/50 by copy pasting from wika and googling some pics and "dumbing down" the words with the Synonyms function, so it looks like an year 8 wrote it and not a environmentalist or nerd.

 

Wikipedia is better than 99% of the other shit out there.

1) It lists its sources, so cross referencing is always possible.

2) Vandalism, is monitored very closely, and usually is edited out immediately.

And yes, the very good articles are locked.

 

Nah. To much people like me who go around editting the pages. I editted my schools page and got suspended for 3 days

 

There's no doubt Wikipedia has a great source of information that is legit and accurate - however this being the internet, there's always going to be some bogus stuff out there. It's really up to your own ability to make logical decisions about information you read, checking other sources or just plain knowing when something is just silly and false.

 

But that only means we can't trust you - it doesn't mean that the entirety of wikipedia is inaccurate.

 

Agreed.

 

I find it to be a good starting point for research, yet it should not be taken at face value (due to the editability of Wikipedia).

 

I have no trust issues with Wikipedia.

However, the user base is something else entirely.

 

Wikipedia can be edited by any person, which means the facts could be completely wronnnng its a useless place to do research

 

No. I don't trust it.

There's been plenty of mistakes in Wikipedia; the worst I found last night.
It claims London is the capital of the United Kingdom. As far as I know, London is the capital of England, and England only.

 

No i don't trust wikipedia.. But wikihow rocks ^^

 

my teachers dont let us use wikipedia
i dont think its trustworthy