Ken Lay Dead; Wikipedia Confused

I've always wondered this, if Wikipedia can be changed so easily by a few clicks of the mouse, then why do people use it for more then just entertainment purposes? I mean shouldn't they come up with someway to stop this...Like maybe create a way for someone to verify the edits before allowing to appear on the site or something along those lines. Or is that expecting too much of them?

I don't use wikipedia unless I really, really, REALLY have to. Other times I just search for sites using a helpful search engine that are more researched then wikipeadia is. Heck...some fan sites are more creditable then Wikipedia! Personally...I think they should get they're act together and make the site harder to edit like I said.

And on a some what unrelated note...I'm surprised someone didn't add 'he got divine punishment from lord Kira' to the long list of the causes of death. Okay that was a bad joke, sorry about that.

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Originally Posted by RacinReaver

Sadly, most other websites aren't much more accurate than Wikipedia is (at least in my experience). I've actually found Wikipedia to be a decent starting place for research, using their links to external sites as places for more indepth reading (since often the include .edu or larger reliable websites).

True, it depends on what you're looking for. I also go there for the outside links. Some of them are actualy pretty good and it saves time rather then going through a million sites looking for one particular subject...espcially if you're short on time and need to double check something. But most of the time if you're using the Wikipedia entries and the entries only without checking out other sites...then how can you say all the info you used is 100% accurate? And alot of people happen to do just that....that's what I'm trying to say....

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