You are probably right, if your edit is obviously ridiculous. If I go in there and change the article on Elvis, to say that he was signing autographs outside my local grocery store yesterday, then yeah, somebody would be all over that. But what if I changed the article to say that he had one more number one single than he actually had? Or if I changed it to say that he got married one year earlier than he actually did. Do you see how information there can be inaccurate without being obviously ridiculous? It is an encyclopedia of general consensus, it is inherently impossible for it to be consistently accurate.Wardnath said:Someone should go on there and actually edit an article.
Would probably take only 5 minutes to have it edited back.
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I have only ever once encountered an issue with wikipedia.
I needed to look up a specific battle for a report regarding WW2 and the wiki page was blatantly vandalized.
From memory it went something like
"On February 31st General Patton sent his army of Panzers behind enemy lines to locate the Nazi Overlord and cut his dick off"
but then like that for the whole history of the battle.
I found another source.
I needed to look up a specific battle for a report regarding WW2 and the wiki page was blatantly vandalized.
From memory it went something like
"On February 31st General Patton sent his army of Panzers behind enemy lines to locate the Nazi Overlord and cut his dick off"
but then like that for the whole history of the battle.
I found another source.
There aren't too many accuracies as such, but I wouldn't look up anything there to construct a detailed historical/political/religious argument (I mean like a detailed one from an essay or something), some of the articles do have a slant of bias.
I've also been told by a friend that looking up religion on the internet is useless (he says that stuff on Islam can be very unreliable written by Christians/atheists who think they understand what it is).
Overall, it's good for basic info. Check for citations. They may or may not be reliable (you know what the internet's like). It's a pretty good tool though.
I've also been told by a friend that looking up religion on the internet is useless (he says that stuff on Islam can be very unreliable written by Christians/atheists who think they understand what it is).
Overall, it's good for basic info. Check for citations. They may or may not be reliable (you know what the internet's like). It's a pretty good tool though.
