I have found egregious postings on Wikipedia and they were quite prompt in making corrections as well as watching and blocking questionable postings

Now, to be clear, I’m defending references to Wikipedia rather than cutting and pasting. I don’t believe in stealing, just helping people find the answers.

No one is “staking their intelligence” on their answer here. But when someone asks a factual questions like “What is term life insurance?” why should I type 500 words when Wikipedia already has 2000 carefully chosen words on the subject?

I believe wikipedia to be much more credible than googling and hoping for a correct answer somewhere amongst the results.

And yes, some people and way too lazy to summarize or give opinions… just as alot of people who post are way too lazy to find the answer themselves on a site like wikipedia!

It’s a decent source of pop-culture information and some basic factoids – but I wouldn’t take it as “gospel” until I’d done further research elsewhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia. It is against the law if you write what it says on wikipedia and then don’t give it credit.

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