Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. Although it is an online "encyclopedia" it is not a very valuable resource. It allows anyone to make edits to the information that is available. People do not need to be informed on the subject at hand or anything. Anyone can go in and delete information or just add anything they want, whether its true or not. All in all I think wikipedia is a very untrusting source.
Although wikipedia does let anybody edit the information they do have a couple of things that they do to try to keep the correct information at hand. There is something called the Wikiscanner and it lets the public see who has edited the information that they are reading. If they can see who has written the information then maybe they can differentiate the true from the lies. Next they have a thing called Wikipedia scanner. Its a search tool that traves the comments and edits on Wikipedia entries back to their source IP address. Even with these tools I still think Wikipedia is not very useful for accurate information.
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