Okay, out of my 6 classes this semester, I think 3 of my professors mentioned something to the effect of how Wikipedia is not a reliable source for research. I've got a beef.
Granted there's a lot of crap in Wikipedia, between political and business people pushing sides of an issue, 9-year-olds with AOL accounts who just like to mess things up, and people who just don't know what they're talking about, but the Wikipedia community as a whole is fairly on-top of their shit, particularly when it comes to technology-related issues, which happens to be my field. I think the key to using Wikipedia as a resource is knowing how to look at and understand the history of an article, as well as being able to reason and understand what you read.
I'm not working on any papers, and I'd never use Wikipedia as my only resource. I'm just saying. Don't trash it.
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