Thursday, September 18, 2008

Untrusted Wikipedia

Wikipedia, commonly used a source on a paper, is not as reliable as one may believe. On the site anyone can go in and change or alter all the information typed in as a definition. It is very hard to know exactly where the information is coming from directly and whether or not is in fact truthful!

Once invented, it allowed the public to be able to check whose been deleting or altering information. Even though Wikipedia may seem to be very resourceful and politicians use it to advertise, it is not and should never be trusted. Wikipedia is known to many as, "a free encyclopedia," but with that you take the risk of not getting 100% accuracy. Although Virgil has allowed we the public and the government to obtain records of those changing information, we all know that the source is not reliable. I don't understand why people are getting upset with this site not serving as a resource when they know the information can be changed!

1 comment:

noelle shipman said...

I like the title of your post!!!