User:Jambro

as a university professor, i assign wikipedia as a first point of entry for my students' internet research. however, i do not accept any student product based exclusively on wikipedia information. does this mean that i am skeptical about Wiki accuracy? yes and no! students need to check and compare varied sources to find the inevitable contradictions and different points of view, then to develop their faculties for reasoning and comparative evaluation to make their judgments over which direction to favor (personal choice) and find the middle-the balance between opposing points of view. wikipedia does not offer such a range of contradictory entries. but this is not a bad thing if it forces students (we are all students) to search elsewhere to find those varied points of view, and test for factuality and verifiability.