Is Wikipedia Fair Or Inaccurate?

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia available to everyone. If a person needs information on a subject they no longer need an entire set of encyclopedias in their home. They can simply use Wikipedia on their computers or other devices that have access to the internet. With tools like Wikipedia any information we need is at our fingertips. Much of it available in multiple languages. There are many branches of Wikipedia. Just to name a few, there is Wikibooks, Wikiquotes, and Wikinews. Wikipedia is composed by voluntary and at times anonymous contributors. Unless an article is protected it can be edited by anyone. This can prove to be both beneficial and detrimental to users. This makes it more comprehensive and up to date. But it can also make it false or inaccurate if someone submits or edits in false information. An editor could do this knowingly or unknowingly. They
may believe the information they submitted to be accurate and true. The fact that anyone can contribute should reveal to the user that they shouldn’t rely strictly on Wikipedia. The upside to the way Wikipedia was created is that when the information comes from a reliable source it will often be copyrighted and have a link to the original source or list other resources that back up their information. So instead of citing Wikipedia or relying on it, one can go to the original website and see if it comes from a reputable source. Wikipedia tries to keep its content dependable and accurate.
They try to encourage contributors to register and by having guidelines that they encourage them to follow. Encouraging people to only add verified sources and to cite these sources. To keep the peace, mediate, and monitor the pages there are administrators and editors that have been elected into roles that have authority over the pages. These administrators or system operators “have been granted the technical ability to perform certain special actions on the English Wikipedia. They include the ability to block and unblock user accounts and IP addresses from editing, edit fully protected pages, protect and unprotect pages from editing, delete and undelete pages, rename pages without restriction, and use certain other tools” as described by Wikipedia (en.m.wikipedia.org). Though these administrators try, they can’t watch every edit or every page on Wikipedia. When writing an essay or doing research one should never solely depend on information found on Wikipedia. Always back up your research with other
sources.