User blog comment:CloverLeafNine/Deepest Sigh/@comment-53539-20150429085020

The whole "wikis aren't reliable" stuff is mostly wikipedias fault. The scale of people going to wikipedia who don't use it correctly is difficult to compact.

A wiki, is, for all better reasons not a thing you take as gospel. The idea is that its pointing you in the right direction and acting as a starting point to find information. Your suppose to use it to look up the CORRECT information further. Yeah, we're not 100% accurate, but it comes with the cost of human error. the idea is that with a community behind them, wikias can counter human error by having someone else correct that error. Someone with the knowledge that person lacked to begin with. Being human... and a community, it does come with flaws, but overall we tend to be more accurate then all other references, save the sources themselves.

As I said in the dumb thing topic... People will believe 1 random guy on youtube more. And even if you don't want to believe the wiki, you can always just link to the sources themselves Clover, so either way, its not up to you to make them believe. You can tell a person that a butterfly comes from a caterpillar but you can't make them believe it.