Analysis Of A Stand Against Wikipedia By Scott Jaschik

A Stand Against Wikipedia by Scott Jaschik draw attention on how students should not use Wikipedia as a resources due to its inaccuracy details and lack completeness entries. In his article he emphasize, “ As Wikipedia has become more and more popular with students, some professors have become increasingly concerned about the online, reader- produced encyclopedia.” Scott have a point where there is plenty of inaccuracy details, but that’s not accurate at all. If the person gathered enough sources that seemingly relates one to the other, then there the sources surely is accurate. Basically, don’t rely on one resources, the researchers needs plenty of resources in order for him or her to make a case or support his or her idea. I agree with the author in some way because researchers could use sources from different sources sites, books, and check if both of that resources have a similar thought and details in order for the article to be truth and credible. Wiki demonstrate a horrible source of primary information and should not be used as such. Students who use it as a resource are not fully to blame. They should be taught to use Wikipedia in much the same manner as Google to get ideas on where to locate the information you …show more content…
In the sciences, and even top journals abound with errors. For example, if you were to look at articles in the journal nature from the 1980's you would doubtless find many articles claiming things that today we have well established are untrue, this is not reason for despair however, the answer is simply to consult multiple independent sources and consider the evidence. Primary, secondary and tertiary sources all have their place and wikipedia certainly does as well. If instead of complaining about wikipedia we all helped correct errors we found in it, we could make it an even more valuable resource for the