I was one of the last people around who had no idea about the reliability of Wikipedia. I feel that Wikipedia should never be trusted in research for papers. It seems to me to be purely entertainment.
The Wikipedia Scanner developed by Virgil Griffith is a valuable tool that enables users to view who has made changed on the different entries. Different companies and people are changing their own Wikipedia entries to a sound more favorable. They are taking out the bad stuff and adding a spin on words. The Wikipedia Scanner makes it so those people are held accountable for changing their entries. I know I wouldn't want to be connected to changing my own entry.
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