Wikipedia - Your thoughts?
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:42 pmWhat do you think about Wikipedia? I have found myself turning to it more often in recent months, often times against my better judgement, just because it's an easy & quick reference.
The part that makes me uncomfortable is that anyone can edit the material & I usually want to verify whatever I read there by doing another search on Google or something.
An example of something I found, was I did a search on plant diseases for a class & one entry stated "pansies get AIDS because they breed with each other." I corrected it, but wonder how much crapola is passed off.
What do you think? Do you love it? Hate it? Take it with a grain of salt? Just curious!
The part that makes me uncomfortable is that anyone can edit the material & I usually want to verify whatever I read there by doing another search on Google or something.
An example of something I found, was I did a search on plant diseases for a class & one entry stated "pansies get AIDS because they breed with each other." I corrected it, but wonder how much crapola is passed off.
What do you think? Do you love it? Hate it? Take it with a grain of salt? Just curious!