Monday, September 22, 2008

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is an Internet based encyclopedia database that allows anything to be posted. I personally would never find it relevant to use the system as a reliable source for information. The articles posted by numerous individuals one including Virgil Griffith, have noted changes set to already existing data. Major corporations go back to edit information within the wiki listing. If you can edit information who is to say if it is true or false? For trustworthy information on an actual document or subject matter I would only trust a published encyclopedia. Other material can only be judged by having a reliable source directly from a corporation, business, and even our own government. Trust is hard to come by these days, and I almost have to witness first-hand to believe something.

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