Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5665682-20131022150447/@comment-32500188-20131031045747

Misteryeevee wrote: @ Musicnote - I agree with you. In fact, a lot of the people who respond to my comments often say "Wikipedias are not reliable.  Your argument is invalid", when this wiki is actually pretty accurate or close. I honestly have to say that my teachers pissed me off whenever they stated that about Wikipedia in class. I often spoke up that if there were any doubts about the information, people should not just look at the Wiki page by itself, but key in on the reference links that were available. I think out of all the high school teachers and college professors I've been taught by, only two of 20-something even bothered to acknowledge that on their own. Checking through references really helped when it came to looking up info in databases and finding more sources for essays and research assignments, that's for sure.

I mean, it's not like people just sit around and type up random junk on these wikis just for the heck of it. You have a good number of users that take the time to research and cite subject matter in order to gather it into an easy-to-find medium. I don't see anything unreliable about that at all, especially if all the info is there for doubters to check for themselves. :-P