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Strictly speaking, Wikipedia isn't a place to find truth, but rather information about what might be the truth. It is an attempt at getting something as close to the truth as possible, containing all human knowledge. But this is unlikely to actually ever happen.

More reliable information (closer to the truth) in a Wikipedia article is likely to have citations (see Citing sources) which point to things like news articles, scientific studies, and books, which give information credibility. It's good practice to take anything without citations with a pinch of salt, and not believe Wikipedia at face value. If your project involves schoolwork, your educators are unlikely to find Wikipedia as a reliable source. Rather, look at the citations and mention them as your sources.

Besides, what is the truth? Who judges it? Humans? Are humans not opinionated? What is reality? Is it not simply how we interpret the world to be, rather than what it actually might be? How do you know you're not in the Matrix or something? The matter of truth is a whole branch of philosophy altogether.

BurritoBazooka (talk) 02:15, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Another thing.. Wikipedia is, like all human repositories of knowledge, affected by systemic bias (Systemic Bias). The average Wikipedia editor is of a specific demographic, to say the least. The most extreme example which springs to my mind of such bias would be made clear if I tried to edit something with what I regard as the truth (say I'm Christian and use the Bible as a source, and regard my interpretation of it as absolute truth). Someone else is obviously going to quash that, because most people around here believe in the scientific method, even when trying to prove extra-universal things. People like me in the example would just have to work their way around this, by saying that "[x] type of people believe that [y]," even though that belief is what I, in the example, regard as reality.
 * Such a compromise as what I last mentioned is probably what made you confused about what the "TRUTH" really is when looking on here. There are so many different people in the world, with different viewpoints, any of which technically have the probability to be true. The major ones need to be represented well, and the reader can use the concious mind s/he has been given to discern all of this. --BurritoBazooka (talk) 02:40, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

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