7.16 // The one with the golden oldies

I got in a discussion the other day with a fellow...person about the wikipedia.

Frankly I use it a lot. There's so much good in it because it's got information on virtually everything! The only problem is that it is user-submitted, meaning anyone could insert any information and it does not necessarily have to be true. You could look it up and find information on elephants. Like that elephants come in only 2 colors, pink and red. Untrue, but it's possible that people could submit this info on the internet.

I believe some tv show, the daily show, or something similar was doing an experiment once having their watchers put improper info in the wiki about elephants.

So this discussion I got into with this, person, was about just that. This person is a news person. All reporters are right. All things you read in the newspaper are right. All things you hear on a reliable news channel is right. I pointed out, that how do they know they're right? They double-check their sources right? Well that's how the wikipedia works. You read the information and there are usually source links...you double check the sources. This person said, true...but how do you know anything you read on the internet is right? I said...How do you know everything you read in the newspaper is right? I mean, News Reporters have been wrong. In that sense... how do you know anything is right?

Point being, Wiki's are a great great source of information. But you should still always double-check the facts.