Maybe I Should Be More Skeptical About What I Read On Wikipedia

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But even if I knew that 10-20% of each article I read was inaccurate, I would still probably use it as a resource. Off the top of my head, I don't know any substitutes that compare to Wikipedia (although I'm sure I could find some mediocre alternatives if I tried), and it's become such a habit at this point that it's sort of strange imagining a world without it. At this point, I think that, similar to Napster and music filesharing, Wikipedia has become embedded in enough people's lives that if anything should ever happen to it (legally or otherwise), plenty of substitutes would pop up immediately.

Upon Googling "define: wikipedia", I came up with some interesting results:

  • “A Web-based, free-content encyclopedia,” available in numerous languages. It "is one of the most popular reference sites on the Internet."
  • Modern aluminium beer barrels - also called casks or kegs - outside the Castle Rock Barrels often have a convex shape, bulging at the middle.
  • The term church originated from the pre-Christian Germanic kirika. St.Simon church in Aleppo,Syria is considered to be one of the oldest.
  • A nonparasitic antigen capable of stimulating a type I hypersensitivity reaction in atopic individuals is called an allergens.
  • The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. They began playing in the National Hockey League as an expansion team in...
  • FAME can also be an abbreviation for:. Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer, an astrometric satellite designed to measure the positions of stars very...
  • Dean Blakesley was the author of the first English Life of Aristotle (1839), an edition of Herodotus (1852-1854) in the Bibliotheca Classica.
  • The is a small breed of dog usually Such s can be seen in many of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
  • Among other problems, the real Billy the Kid spoke Spanish fluently and could read and write ... Jon Bon Jovi's album Blaze of Glory; Charlie Daniels 's song, Billy the Kid; Billy Dean 's song...

Maybe I should be more concerned with the information I encounter using Google's "define" method (which also comes up very frequently for me)...

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