Whenever you search anything up online what is the very first site that pops up on the web? For the most part it is almost always Wikipedia. Wikipedia likes to apparently have all the facts, and know every little detail about pretty well everything.
This site is known as not having reliable information and can’t be trusted. So many teachers prohibit their students from even using it as a source of facts, because people can edit the text as they please. You wouldn’t even know if the information you’re writing down is actually right for your report, essay, or whatever you are writing.
Personally, I agree with all those teachers who have banned it from being used as a resource. People are able to write the facts so believable that you can’t tell the difference between the truth or a twisted story. You don’t even know what was originally put in the article and what was added later on.
I know from my experiences with Wikipedia, as I was in elementary I used to go on the site just to change around little facts and make it into different stories, that I found funny. I never really clued in that if I could do it anyone else around the world could. I used to actually take their points and write my research reports on them up until about 7th grade.
At one stage or another in your life you have come across some sort of Wikipedia link that has intrigued you into reading about it. Possibly you even read page after page after page of Wikipedia stories that you have found interesting. Just think about all this, and how teachers have even started to prohibit the site from students the next time you plan on doing a research report.
