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Originally Posted by CFrance

In my former job as an editor, we would not allow our employees to use wikipedia to fact check. There were too many errors.

Just recently, I was talking to my son about wikipedia and how unreliable it is, and while we were on the phone, he got on wikipedia and totally changed facts about the Pittsburgh Penguins and was able to have the misinformation saved and put online. Of course he immediately went in and changed it back, but his point was how easy it is to change what's on wikipedia.

I use it to look up answers to things for my own curiosity, but I would never rely on it for research purposes, and if I really needed a definitive answer, I would look elsewhere.

I happen to agree with you.

I often go to Wikipedia for "general" information, but also do not count on it for absolute accuracy. When I want the "gospel" on a subject, I Google the topic and draw from a number of different reliable sources and compare them.