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Originally Posted by sirbruce
And a moment later, it would be corrected.
Meanwhile, you could RIGHT NOW go write a printed academic publication and make drastic and erroneous errors and once it's in print that erroneous information could be cited FOREVER for academic papers.
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When using wikipedia there is a simple step that anyone should take and that is to look at the bottom of the screen and note when the last change was made. If it was just a few minutes ago then do not cite that page or use it for a reference unless you verify what was changes. This is also easy to do by looking at the history of the page. Like any source you need to validate the data yourself before trusting it. You need to understand how something works before blindly trusting it. A wiki is easy to check by looking at the date of the change and verify the validity of the change.
Dale