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Mormons & Wikipedia

In an earlier exchange, the missionary told Nicholson that Wikipedia was reliable because the collaborative process ensures its accuracy. Nicholson disagreed. How could a website be accurate if anybody could change it whenever they wanted to? Somebody had to stand up to this. Ref. Source 3

Wikipedia and Mormons

I have to say that Wikipedia is a good site to go to for quick information, but as the news link pointed out, Wikipedia should not be the ONLY place to get your information. The problem is, is that both the missionary and the member are right. With the collaborative process that the missionary points out, it means that a lot of people can gather information on a subject, from various sources. Although it is true that anyone can edit anything from any article on Wikipedia, you need sources to back up what you write, otherwise it will be deleted by a Wikipedia monitor. In areas of "knowledge" like religion, politics, or any other area that the "facts" are debatable, then two or more people can write totally different things in an article, and there is nothing that the Wikipedia monitors can do, since both parties can cite separate, and in some cases, the same source, as their source.

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Haleray you're so right. On top of that if some controversial topic is placed and whoever is monitoring think is anti-Mormon (because lets face it a lot of members think controversial stuff equals anti-Mormonism) then the whole article is deleted you know what am I saying? Quite unfair if you ask me.