User:GissetteM25/sandbox

When completing assignments its always important to know where you are getting your information from. Finding reliable sources is also important. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that has about 2.2 million different articles. When first learning about this, it sounds amazing and astonishing to have an easily accessible encyclopedia. Especially nowadays flipping through dozens of pages can be very time consuming. An online encyclopedia is very useful because you can obtain information in a click of a button. Wikipedia allows for people to edit the pages and put in information to each article. This could mean that one might not get the most accurate information at all time. This could be a down fall to wikipedia because it allows anyone to edit the pages and add in their own information. But usually wikipedia is very reliable and helpful. It also allows us to add important information that others may not be aware about. It is a way in which our intelligence and knowledge about different topics can be shared with the world. Another downfall can be that people are allowed to delete information that they may think is not valid. This means that if you write information it cold possibly get deleted and all that hard work would be thrown away. People in my opinion probably would not bother to take time out of their lives to go and add false information into wikipedia. When people do enter false information onto Wikipedia I think as a researcher it would be easy to detect whether something is false. A researcher should always use more than one reference anyways. Overall Wikipedia is a helpful and easily accessible online encyclopedia.