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*sigh* The nature of Wikipedia means that anyone can change any entry they want, to whatever they want (hence Penny-Arcades rant on Wikipedia a few days ago). Therefore, in the comic posted above, Skelator decided to produce... objective information on He-Man and deleted what was already there... it's not that hard.

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Obviously, I'd never just use one source, but I also wouldn't trust Wikipedia if I ever wanted to check something quickly. If anything, if I were writing a report or essay or something, I'd use it to find out bits about it so i can resaerch it much better elsewhere.

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Wikipedia is better for finding out about less serious things. Examples include television programmes, games, communities (as highlighted in this thread) and websites which may otherwise be difficult to find a collected, concise and third-party bit of information about (ie: not the "About Us" paragraph). For the most part, Wikipedia is accurate for that sort of thing.

 

Where I wouldn't ever use it for is researching serious work or whatever.

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the above artical says that next month, testing on a new mechanism will begin to review the accuracy of the articals. Considering the main point in Penny-arcades huge rant (and my small one right there) was that nothing like that existed, I guess it's good that they're improving on things.

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