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Originally Posted by dgruss23
For non-controversial topics Wikipedia is probably ok most of the time, but if there is any sort of debate - forget it. You get people with agenda's that disagree fighting over what it should say and it gets nasty.
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Why would you expect any controversial subject to be set in stone?
I don't see how you can use
anything as a single reference, for contrversial subjects.
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What students can do with it is use it as a first check on information - but then they have to verify that information with a reliable reference.
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But does that make it a "waste of time"?
That was my point. If you're using it to look up country statistics, for instance, there's not going to be a lot of controversy. But if you're expecting the final word on ATM theories--well, where
would you find it?