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Wikipedia as a source
I generally don’t use the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as a source, mainly due to the fact that literally anyone can come in and edit the content. I know that the entries are corrected eventually, but as a general rule I will use it as a starting point for info, and use other sources to verify the content.
Here’s a story about a man who had an entry written about him on Wikipedia that contained some major falsehoods.
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Wikipedia is toy of the internet. You can have Ward Churchill’s devotees writing absolutely flattering lies about him and against the 9/11 victims and it be left out on the internet polluting the true information out there.
This is one reason I say anyone citing Wickpedia as a source buttressing their argument is admitting defeat for going to a source of comprimised entries.