Wikipedia (and the Internet) Learn an Important Lesson
All this recent news about Wikipedia and how unreliable it is makes me laugh. Are we just not teaching people about critical analysis of sources anymore? As a college student, I have this drilled into me like my life depends on it. So how is it all these people are putting so much faith in something that is editable by anyone? Anyone with any critical reading skills should immediately be wary of such a site, and look for information that corroborates or debunks it.
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Seems to me one single source hasn't been valid since about the third grade. I love the wikipedia for quick reference but wouldn't take anything off the web at face value especially without several corroborating (reliable) sources and neither should anyone else. Another case of someone that doesn't have two brain cells to rub together.
the hippy commune "idea" of wiki is a nice pipe dream. and like most pipe dreams you need to smoke something to get that dreamy haze. a lot like what some of the posters that gravitate towards things like wiki have smoked. there's no content editor or proofreader for that matter! the thing they modeled after, an ENCYCLOPEDIA, has all those things and more! when you're adding as 'fact' a piece of info you've pilfered from a weekly rag you can pretty much bet that .001 bit of that info is true and can be proven as such. i bet GWB likes wiki - it's a good place where he can make stuff up and look smart at the same time.
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