Trust Wikipedia?

[Jed]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/g...rrun-by-left-wing-trolls-and-junk-historians/

Don't put too much faith in Snopes either, a married couple of Canadian extraction and notoriously Liberal.

 

[dantheman]

Here we go again .

 

[bs875]

Wikipedia is written by whoever wants to write it. It's decent for most stuff but I wouldn't treat it as gospel. Snopes at least has the look of something researched. Basically good for crap emails that get forwarded to you. I think we all have that friend/family member.

 

[James Cannon]

There's no reason not to trust Wikipedia any more or less than anyone else.

They cite their sources, so there's even more reason to use them as a source of investigation; just follow their footsteps for verification.

 

[Gus McCrae]

There's no reason not to trust Wikipedia any more or less than anyone else.

They cite their sources, so there's even more reason to use them as a source of investigation; just follow their footsteps for verification.

This, snopes too.... just use a dash of comon sense when reading. It may not be gospel, but it probably more accurate than most places.

 

[Speedlace]

Here we go again .

They cite their sources, so there's even more reason to use them as a source of investigation; just follow their footsteps for verification.

Going to copy and paste my response from the other threads:

"Snopes does provide their sources @ the bottom of the articles page, so you can look at what they read and figure out whether it's real, fake, fear mongering, etc."

"There is nothing wrong with Wikipedia as a source. When someone tries to post on a topic they have to site the source were they got their information, and it is moderated.

WIKIPEDIA articles themselves are just a segmented summery of a topic.If you wish you can click the are resources posted at the bottom."



The only troll here is the person that wrote that article.

 

[Gus McCrae]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/g...rrun-by-left-wing-trolls-and-junk-historians/

Don't put too much faith in Snopes either, a married couple of Canadian extraction and notoriously Liberal.

Looking at the blog, the guy is bitching about the accuracy of some historical entries in wiki. Everybody knows that historians argue about the details of historic accounts all the time.... this would be no different.

Is there some garbage on wiki? Sure, but I imagine that most of it is decent and most if not all does provide references.

 

[Kraut]

I think we all have that friend/family member.

Yep, and she was like that well before home computers were around. She burned up the phone lines so much her husband had to work for Ma Bell.

 

[flamatrix99]

This, snopes too.... just use a dash of comon sense when reading. It may not be gospel, but it probably more accurate than most places.

Exactly... Take it for what it is worth. It will probably get you in the ballpark for what you are looking for.