There are man good sources on the internet to get information from. You can go to the libraries website of your school for cerified sources, you can get online book, or you can go to a website most people use every so often liike myself, Wikipedia.
This is a website that was made to put up factual information on a subject and to keep it that way by having monitor on it making sure people keep the information free from opinions... not to argue over. The whole ordeal began with the wiki page of the Iranian Presidential candidate Ahmadinejad. I never knew that the mediation of a website would cause such drama and agrumentative cases on one's biography. The mediatiors would post back and forth changing as some would say what should be on the site. But getting onto the site to call Ahmadinejad a fascist is too much. It shouldn't be left to college students and bickering on the internet to decide what to believe about a presidential candidate. That power should belong to credited sites and doing such war on a website about a person is damaging to a career. He did speak some pretty controversial things when running, and yes controversy brings up arguing and not everyone agreeing, but seeing as to argue on Wikipedia for people to take information from shouldn't have happened and brought to that extent
I initially thought the article was going to tell me that Wikipedia is not a credible source, that it cannot be backed because it is just facts people put up; shared articles and what not. And now I know this fact to be true that even though one might think something is true they could be completely wrong in taking ideas from a site that ANYTHING on it can be monitored and changed. I guess this, in a way, opened a light on Wikipedia I need to look at more often than none, because this information seems less credible than ever as of now.
Monday, September 14, 2009
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I understand what you mean by anything on this site being false whether we acknowledge it or not. I feel like there is a lot of credible information on Wikipedia and it needs regulations in order to keep it credible. Don't just give up on the site, just peruse through the information with caution.
ReplyDeletei agree that the editing of wikipedia shouldn't be in the hands of random people with opinions. you can't expect the whole truth if that is how things are done. i believe that it still remains a good starting point for research though. Some information on the site is true, and you can use it as a basis for finding new credible information from much more trust worthy sites.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you. I think that information from Wikipedia just can't be trusted. Sure some information from Wikipedia entries are true, but after reading this article, the information is not credible in my opinion. This post was well written.
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