I've seen random stuff wrong on there at least 6 different times over the years. I don't use it for anything important, but it's kinda funny to find little things here and there wrong when I do look up random things.
Is Wikipedia Ever Wrong?
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Well if there is a mistake on it and if I know people on the internet like I do. We are very anal and want to always be right so someone will get a smug satifaction for putting on the correct information so with that logic I would say that most of the articles that have been on for awhile will be fairly accurate.
Wikipedia is aweful. I rememmber about the time of 2004/5/6 there were loads of US Congressmen changing such things as the fact they said they would only stand a set amount of terms and how they voted on the Iraq war.
Also, it is massively wrong about my school [Wymondham College in England], Lincoln Hall is named after Sir Ralph Lincoln, not Abraham Lincoln.
Also, it is massively wrong about my school [Wymondham College in England], Lincoln Hall is named after Sir Ralph Lincoln, not Abraham Lincoln.
Yes, of course it CAN be wrong, given its nature. An Encyclopedia can also be wrong, if information was out-of-date, or just not well researched.
The thing about Wikipedia is that vandalism is fairly easy to find. It's often misspelled, all caps or no caps, or not cited. So, while you may very well find vandalism, it's your fault if you cite it.
The thing about Wikipedia is that vandalism is fairly easy to find. It's often misspelled, all caps or no caps, or not cited. So, while you may very well find vandalism, it's your fault if you cite it.
If something isn't life-threateningly important, I'll wiki that mess just to get a general idea. But if I can't verify information through the Urban Dictionary, then I pretty guess it is false. But I rarely have time to do any of that when I'm too busy spending all my time Googleing myself.
*strokes his white goatee* back in my day, we didn't have no Wikipedias. We had the damn dictionary and encyclopedias... and nobody owned one, so you had to go down to the library to look at theirs, but you had to wait in a line that was a good country mile long in the snow... just everybody looking up something all the time, standing in line, waiting your turn... you lived and died in that line. You grew up in that line, got married and had kids... of course, your kids after they were born had to move to the back of the line. But that's how life was and we liked it! You damn kids with your information superhighway and naked Asian girls with pink wigs everywhere, you don't know what a "reliable information source" is.
*strokes his white goatee* back in my day, we didn't have no Wikipedias. We had the damn dictionary and encyclopedias... and nobody owned one, so you had to go down to the library to look at theirs, but you had to wait in a line that was a good country mile long in the snow... just everybody looking up something all the time, standing in line, waiting your turn... you lived and died in that line. You grew up in that line, got married and had kids... of course, your kids after they were born had to move to the back of the line. But that's how life was and we liked it! You damn kids with your information superhighway and naked Asian girls with pink wigs everywhere, you don't know what a "reliable information source" is.
Well, I'm sure that there are some things that are wrong.
I remember I had to do a presentation about Mars.
I got all I needed from Wikipedia. (except for the images. I got the images off of Google.)
I got an A.
Whenever I use Wikipedia, I usually don't get any "wrong facts."
(or maybe the facts were wrong, but nobody cared...)
I remember I had to do a presentation about Mars.
I got all I needed from Wikipedia. (except for the images. I got the images off of Google.)
I got an A.
Whenever I use Wikipedia, I usually don't get any "wrong facts."
(or maybe the facts were wrong, but nobody cared...)
Eh, it'll ultimately fall prey to misinformation stored in its database on purpose. Like, say, when it's in the planning stages of creating an armada of AI-controlled jet fighters - I bet it'll attempt to synthesize fuel from powdered sugar and smoked salmon because it said so in the corresponding article. Thus the malevolent wikipedia entity will bring about its own downfall.Captain Pancake said:
Wikipedia has as high an accuracy rate as Encyclopedia Britannica (somewhere in the mid 90s percentage range). Nothing is always right, but its about as accurate as you can get.
At one point it told me that Leuco-Malachite Green(LMG) was a fish. It wasn't. It's a chemical/green dye.
I mostly use Wikipedia as a starting point, and then look for other websites to back up the information I got from Wikipedia since I'm not allowed to put it down as a reference.
I mostly use Wikipedia as a starting point, and then look for other websites to back up the information I got from Wikipedia since I'm not allowed to put it down as a reference.
There was this one time where on the "Gary the Snail" page, under abilities there was "..and play rock n roll drums like me LOL."
But not often.
But not often.
