Apparently, Middlebury College in Virginia has banned students from using the famous informational website 'Wikipedia,' claiming "Wikipedia is not an acceptable citation, even though it may lead one to a citable source."
I completely agree with this movement considering the information on the website isn't properly edited. Wikipedia allows random speculators to change the information without having the data confirmed by a second opinion. This most definitely puts students at risk for accumulating the wrong information. However, I can't say that I'm completely against it. After all, I've used it a few times myself! Even though I have used the website before, I've never used the information for project research for school (honestly!). I think the website does help people to get the jist of an idea, but the details in the articles, on the other hand, are very misleading. At first, I didn't know that the articles were vulnerable to incorrect editing, so I used the website to look up information that would feed my curiosity. As soon as I found out that the website was not such a good source after all, I stopped taking the information so seriously. So this is my warning to you: be careful!
(For those of you who haven't visited the website and are curious as to what I'm babbling about, the website is http://www.wikipedia.org)
Do you use Wikipedia?
(Information provided by http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070213/ap_on_fe_st/wikipedia_ban%3B_ylt%3DApzVgnEPOOWeWes.joDihpeek3Qf )
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