The Danger of Using the Internet as Reference

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Wiki lost credibility for me long ago. It's a playground of nationalists, revivalists, fantasizers, skepticals, believers, deniers.....whatever type you can think of with a lot of free time in their hands. (That said, there is still plenty of good information there but one has to know what to be looking for and how.)

Indeed, you have to be careful about using Wikipedia as a source. On most topics it's good as a quick and sloppy reference, but not something for serious debate. It's not usually too hard to notice when articles are biased, though; the bigger worries are ignorance and (occasionally, on infrequently-trafficked pages) hard-to-spot vandalism. Some of the more contentious pages have bazillions of references, too, which is nice.

Not that I have anything at all to do with Wikipedia.