Why I hate Wikipedia

So this is my second attempt at writing about this topic as It seems somewhere along my blogs it seems to have vanished somewhere and no, I did not unfortunately make a back up of my blogs until fairly recently.

We discussed in the lecture the issues surrounding Wikipedia in regards to anyone being able to edit the articles that appear on the site which has made the quality of the content available insufficient for knowledge. Wikipedia is one of the leading online databases providing information on almost everything. Despite the benefits of being able to look almost everything the downfall is that it is not always accurate and should never be used in academic referencing. The reason why is that the information provided is open for debate, is accessible all over the world and Wikipedia users may freely add, remove or edit an article and it is not checked before publishing by accredited academics. This then relates to the previously referred to reading by Jorge Luis, Tion, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (I have discussed this in an earlier reading).

I have never used Wikipedia that much, and have never used it as a reference for academic material, although I find that it is good to get a basic idea of what something is and is also good for movie outlines.