Wikipedia should not be trusted as a reliable source for a research paper. In my opinion I don't think that wikipedia should be trusted. I think that because anybody can edit the site and change information. Some of the information they change could be false or irrelevant to the subject your studying. "Students should never use information in Wikipedia (or any other online encyclopedia) for formal purposes (such as school essays)," said by a person who has the same opinion as me because they agree that Wikipedia isn't reliable because of untrue or false information. Wikipedia should not be used as a reliable source. Jimmy Wales was comparing Wikipedia and Britannic to find which source is more reliable. He compared two of he same articles one from Wikipedia and one from Britannica but not knowing which Was from which encyclopedia. Wikipedia had 162 errors while Britannica had about 30 less errors. Saying that Wikipedia should not be trusted as a reliable source because it has many errors. When I was in elementary school our teachers told us to only use the information you find when you know something about it. I watched one of my teachers change something on Wikipedia and it was totally irrelevant to the subject. Meaning that you don't need any qualification to change anything.There are many reasonable examples of why people shouldn't use Wikipedia as a good site.
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