Wikipedia - truth or rubbish?.

[sparkythecat]

Links to Wikipedia pages are often posted in threads on here with posters using the content in support of their viewpoint. It's used as a reference tool and now appears to be as reverred by some as the Encyclopaedia Britannica used to be.

But how accurate is anything on wikipedia?

A lot of it can be edited by anyone. A recent edition of a computer magazine I bought featured a workshop article showing how to do it. Armed with this Numpties guide to Wikipedia editing, it would appear to me that any old crap can be created by anyone.

So, without any detailed knowledge of the topic in question, (which is usually what you were seeking to begin with), how does one begin to sort the wheat from the chaff, or is it all just bollox?