Wikipedia SYA- Emily Wootton

Wikipedia SYA By- Emily Wootton


Wikipedia is not a good website to use as a resource on a paper because everything on that website is in danger of being changed by the whole world no amount of people can fix it. Wikipedia in 1991 began, " the website became a self styled pre- eminent source", by David Farhie). The website was built with 1000 volunteers to fix and edit the site. Wiki means (quick) in Hawaiian language and Pedia means for and encyclopedia . If you look at a Wikipedia site you need to look for,

-Does the writing read well
-Are there any citations.
-Was the article recently created or edited.
-Whether or not there's two or more editors.
-Author.

If none of this is encountered in the website it tends to give false information. Wikipedia is known to teachers as an unreliable source in which most of the time is edited by the people who have no idea what there talking about. Most of the time the edits last more than a month. There is 3.5 million articles on Wikipedia in 125 languages which means more than half of those articles must be wrong or edited a day. There's about 2.92 mess ups on each article or journal. Wikipedia had an issue before when peers would post nude pictures on Wikipedia.

There was an article about the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and John F. Kennedy by Steven Seigenthaler . It was deleted by another person. Adam Curry was the one who was accused of deleting that article. It was a very good article , but I find that if they deleted it and it was good article then what do they find bad.

The rate of the difference between Wikipedia and Britannia is 126 to 123 errors in the website. It is commonly known as the website in which it has a lot of errors on it.


As you can see Wikipedia is known as a unreliable source to use for any research paper. Everyone seems to have an opinion on the way the articles are edited on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a source that I would suggest to use.