Why we can't trust Wikipedia!

[Marieh]

Am I the only one who can see it? hmm oh well:

[.Amy.]

Yes i seen that and i was like what!

Also they said Rebecca Cartwright WILL be returning to H&A in 2007, thankfully that has now been changed.

[dsingles]

Well thats not what I see when I click the link on the first post, mine reads,

He used to be a Ballet Dancer and also has played in many live theatre events and shows.

He is married to dancer Linda Ridgeway. They have two sons - Kelly, born in 2000, and Marlon, born in 2004.

Anyway I love wikipedia and use it all the time for browsing stuff at home and some really important stuff from uni. It's the internet and sometimes you have to use your brain and think about the things you're reading and whether they are true or not.

Dsingles xxx

[Ross]

^^You often have to refresh the page with Wikpedia. Sometimes, I go on there, and what it says on a page has got bits missing etc when I next go back. It's because it sometimes takes you back to the version that existed before it was last updated, which is probably what's happened here.

As far as the Lynne McGranger thing goes...somebody has way too much time on their hands to be writing that!

[ste]

Why can't people understand that Wikipedia is a great source as long as it's about a field where you have many competent writers who make the articles - This is getting quite ridiculous. I don't see how people can dismiss Wikipedia because of some bored teenybopper leading you on over something, IMO, as trivial as a tv-series.

I heartt Wikipedia.

I think when people on this forum say you can't trust wiki, they just mean you can't trust it when it comes to Home and Away

[MarMar]

I get that, but they make it sound like Wikipedia is a site full of misinformation, which is not true, and that gives off the wrong impression to members who has no experience with the site.

[Eli]

My french teacher talks a lot about Wikipedia, and I agree with her: It's a good tool if you know how to use it.

I don't use Wikipedia for diving deep in to information about say a religion or a person, but it can be a great source to check quick details while writing something. If you think you know something but you don't quite remember it can be very good because it's easy to look up and you will have a little backgroundinformation (enough to know what to trust) and if you find something that doesn't back up what you thought then you might want to check it out more carefully.

Not sure if that made much sense to anyone...

[MarMar]

It did. In the newest Firefox version (at least for Mac) you have the search bar at the top right with not only Google, as in the past, but with other search engines as well - for example Wikipedia. I use it in pretty much every lecture to check up names of sociologists and get information of their work so that I can add it in my lecture notes.

[Nicom]

You can't trust it with quite a few things...

For example, I watched my sister the other week go on this famous music composer's Wikipedia page and edit it, writing in something about him being able to fly, and me dancing in dark rooms. For that reason, I don't trust it for anything. There's other internet sites to research on anyway.. no biggy.

Lol to the Kip thing! Some people have too much time on their hands I think. Yes, including my sister. lol.

[MarMar]

That's the beauty of Wikipedia - anyone can edit it, but thanks to moderators and very involved people it's edited back pretty quickly.

I won't bother trying to explain this further. Some people seem too set to on disagreeing - it's just not worth it.

Use it if you will, but as with everything else, take it with a grain of salt and check the info against other sites. This is the rule one should live by on the net, but it seems that a lot of people are either too naïve or just plain stupid to realize.