Wikipedia as a resource: by Leanne L.

The famous website and resource known as Wikipedia was created in 2001. It has the ability of an encyclopedia. I do not recommend that people use this as their source for homework and essays and such. The "wiki" in Wikipedia means that the information can be changed. If you go to Wikipedia and click on an article, there is the option to edit the information that was put onto it. The purpose for this choice was so that people could correct someone else's information if it happens to be incorrect. Some people have taken advantage of this and instead write even more false information to trick people. Wikipedia now has volunteers searching and reading different articles to make sure that all of the information that people are writing is correct. Because Wikipedia is such a known and used resource for essays, homework, etc. Wikipedia is trying to prevent the false information, this does not always help. There are just so many articles on Wikipedia and they cannot read all of them. Wikipedia doesn't seem to be the best resource because the people trying to fix the information cannot catch everybody who's writing falsely. People change the information into false knowledge, not always on purpose but people are going to believe that that information if correct and use it in whatever they're using Wikipedia for. I do not recommend Wikipedia as a #1 resource.