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Re: Does Wikipedia provide false authority to our sound-bite society?
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Originally Posted by TheFaithfulStone
Hey, Wikipedia may not be much of a source for "real" topics - but if you want to know about Transformers, Airwolf, or the Smurfs, then it's the world's authority.
TFS
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I have found Wikipedia to be quite good. There is the potential for errors, just as with any other source of information.
A study was recently done about the accuracy of Wikipedia vs The Encyclopia Britanica. Wikipedia actually did very well ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4530930.stm).
Conisdering it is 100% public contributions, to do almost as well as The Encylopedia Britanica is pretty impressive 
The other thing I like is if you find something wrong, you can correct it.
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