Is Wikipedia Accurate?

[uncle eddy]

I wonder how many people have used it to pass exams?

 

i have, but as has been said already it has to be double checked and verified.

[megalithic]

i have, but as has been said already it has to be double checked and verified.

 

I just used it to look up "exams".

[DaFoot]

I just looked up Sheffield and it says it's in cornwall ?

Rubbish !

 

Perfectly accurate then

 

 

Cornish Sheffield

[megalithic]

Perfectly accurate then

 

 

Cornish Sheffield

 

Yeah but my mate Nige said that sheffield was 38 miles from cornwall, and Nige knows his stuff. I think that's a plant.

[jfish1936]

I just looked up Sheffield and it says it's in cornwall ?

Rubbish !

 

No! Sheffield is in Tasmania, and is famous for its street murals:

 

http://www.sheffieldmurals.com/

 

Seriously, I use a wikipaedia article as a start for my research into something.

Then I cross-check with other sources, some suggested by the WP article.

 

Maybe even cross-check "Christopher Columbus" against "Discovery of America" in Wikipaedia itself.

 

As the paper nears completion, I check a lot of things -- local news archives for one -- if the matter is important enough.

 

I'm prepared to accept Wikipaedia's date for the accession of HGM Queen Elizabeth II & I ( thank you loyal Scots), but I'd be very wary of accepting it at face value on the beliefs of a small religious sect, for instance.

 

Finally, remember: nothing is ever known with 100% accuracy! (99.99999% maybe)

[Lockjaw]

Finally, remember: nothing is ever known with 100% accuracy! (99.99999% maybe)

 

I exist.

 

100% certain.