twesterm said:
You missed the point and I apologize for not clarifying. The reason why you should never use the Wiki as a reference and why any English teacher or professor should fail you for doing so is that anyone can edit it. This guy obviously thought he knew what he was talking about and thought he was absolutely right. If he was the type of person who took it upon himself to keep a Wiki up to date he would fill it wrong information. Then there's also the fact there are jerks that change it to be jerks. You even told me no cheating which even further proves my point that the Wiki should never be used as a reference. |
Just because anyone can edit it does not mean it would necessarily be worse off than having some random person who's supposed to be an "expert" editing it.
Teachers and professors are saying not to use it because often times they don't understand and are not used to a style that's different than the archaic thought of "it is in a published book, therefore it must be correct." You are making a huge mistake by assuming that he looked up this information there and found it there. I bet you that if he actually did try using wikipedia, his report will be much more accurate than it is. People can edit it to be jerks but mistakes are usually corrected in a fast manner.
Tell me, do you really think a mainstream media journalist would be more accurate than you or a good portion of the VGChartz population if they printed an article about videogames? The NYTimes just published an article a week ago where they mistakenly had the price of the PS3 lower by $100 and stated that both the 360 and PS3 used blu-ray. Will you make that same mistake?
