Kurado Classic: Wikipedia vs. YouTube

Tough one. Wikipedia is very useful, especially for random facts, but it's also fairly inaccurate, and there's not much warning when it is. YouTube, on the other hand, is just what it purports to be - entertainment. There's a lot more hit-and-miss on YouTube, but it's also been the easiest way, in some cases, to go back and find nostalgic clips of TV shows, old commercials, and the like, and is a great source of finding current commercials that are raucously funny.

I'm going to go YouTube for entertainment purposes. Wiki is often more useful, but googling gets part of the same effect, whereas YouTube is mostly unrivaled in its field of interest.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Elixir

Wikipedia's very accurate

o_O Are we talking about the same Wikipedia? I suppose it depends on what you're looking up. It's accurate for pop culture and such, but I only use it as a starting point to find more reliable sources for anything that matters. While it's sometimes accurate, it's hard to discern when it isn't.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I've seen some theoretical claims be passed off as fact because the only person 'confident enough' to write about it was the one who posed the theory (which has been debunked by multiple studies). There will always be incongruence in Wikipedia unless they lock it down from general editing, which would kill the purpose. This is not to say that it isn't a good resource or that I don't like it, I'm just playing devil's advocate. My avatar made me do it. =D

Also, if I could prop your post, Lix, I would. You made some good points.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.