Can you trust the authenticity of anything you read on Wikipedia?

whats the point of it?

Wikipedia is essentially trustworthy for any information that you need. It is not a citation-worthy reference, but as a tool it is very good.

no .as it says it is only a guide.

Simply: no. But usually it's good enough. People are keeping it reasonably up-to-date most of the time. However, I did read that the Huang River was in Adam Sandlers Belly Button, so...

The articles on wikipedia are written & edited by the general public.

Rather like the answers you get on here.

I'd like to think that most subjects are written by well-informed people that know what they're talking about, however, I'm sure that there are inconsistencies in some of the "facts" on there.

I tend to employ an amount of common sense when reading anything on there. Don't take everything as gospel, but don't think the whole lot is just one big pack of lies.

A lot of the stuff is usually pretty good but if you want hard facts look elsewhere!

you can trust something but not anything

Yes, of course.

There is an old saying:-
Believe nothing of what you ear.
Half of what you read
and
Most of what you see.

In my opinion Nothing is perfect

Wiki is about as much use as the proverbial chocolate teapot - in fact the tea pot is more trustworthy ! ! !

no u can't anyone can edit it so just use it as a guide. and definetly don't use it for any business ventures or ideas. the only articles that are good are the ones that have a little padlock in the top right corne

not really bc anyone who has a wikipedia account can change or put anything on it.

I might as well be the only person too try and defend Wikipedia, so here goes.

I think Wikipedia is fantastic, PC Pro (a computer magazine) tested it a while a go, They created an article with some small errors and within a few hours the errors had been corrected! So that seems pretty good considering its a completely free resource.

So yes, i think that information on wikipedia can be trusted for its authenticity

You cannot trust the reliability of anything on the internet; Wikipedia is especially bad because people can edit it over and over.

No, considering anyone can go on the website and change the text at anytime.

That depends on what you are reading about. If the article is about something that some people will probably have different opinions about (like a movie), there might be some bias mixed in with the info. If the article's about history or past events that is mostly common knowledge (like "Susan B. Anthony is on the siver dollar") than most of the info will more likely be true. That is my opinion.

i would on the most part