01-11-2007, 08:04 PM
morgorath Wrote:No offense taken, but first I love Wikipedia. I like to read it over Britannica. But the big differance between them is simple if thier is an error in Britannica thier is an editor to make a formal compaint to. With Wikipedia there is no editor and while you can correct the information there is no way of stopping someone from changing it. That is why professors ask us not to use them as a source.
That's common sense as you don't know who wrote it. You can't quote it in an essay and write 'unknown, wikipedia'. What you can do is take the information and google it and take it from there and find some real sources. Britannica hardly has any pop culture information compared to wikipedia either.