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I have to say that I had never really explored wikipedia before. And I guess that it can be a helpful tool. I will admit that during the early 80's I was a Duran Duran fan, so I did a search and found out that there was way more information than I expected. I also found it funny how some people editorialized like this for example : "John Taylor and Nick Rhodes were very happy people." How does this person know that not only they were happy but VERY happy. So I can definitely see where problems could arise with having everyone in the world being able to add information. Just because they truly believed some data to be true doesn't mean that it is true. I think I saw a story where a teacher purposely edited a wikipedia entry with false information to see how many of his students referenced the fake fact. I think that he used this as a lesson in checking the validity of research information. So I think that wikis have there place in society and can be useful tools.