Why should I not use it?
Well, admittedly there is a possible problem involved with relying on a wiki article, such as Wikipedia. It can be edited by anyone. Of course, that is still a reason to use the article. When there are mistakes on the articles then they can be corrected. However, on other websites, they cannot necessarily be corrected, and they also are not using a reference link system to multiple other websites (most often), so they can be biased by one individual person and that is how it is. At least with the Wikipedia, while the first edit may be wrong, the next edit can correct some of those mistakes, and use references, and the third edit will take out even more of the mistakes.
The major problem with Wikipedia though… Monopoly. What other websites are out there that are as extensive as Wikipedia? Well, there is Uncyclopedia. Though that just is to make fun of Wikipedia and be comedy all around. There is Encyclopedia Dramatica, that is very poorly written and maintained, and stupidly overly dramatic about everything (why does everything have to come down to homosexual pictures or tentacle porn?). Why do we have to be just so overly dramatic, why can we not just all be friends and not have to worry about things going wrong or poorly or being so worried about emotions and having to cry because people are just so very overly dramatic and it just goes so wrong.
Individual stories or ideas can also have their own Wiki sites. Halo Wikia, all of the lies about people trying to compare the game story and the book story together when they do not actually share a lot in common, INCONSISTENT. How about Memory Alpha, Star Trek Wikia, every article written about Star Trek to show the ever insurmountable INCONSISTENT behaviour of the various series. Why do I keep making references to Star Trek in seemingly every article? Okay, I will skip over the hundreds of different Wiki sites to get to the interesting ones. Firefly. Firefly does still deserve an article or hundreds of articles to itself, but, why are there two (at least that I can readily find) different Wikia sites? We have firefly.wikia.com or fireflywiki.org. Am I the only one who things this is awesome? It is called 0aggressive expansion because of competition. Unfortunately, the Firefly universe only expands to the point of the author’s perspective, unlike the world that has a very much real history of, what, six thousand or so years of humanity. But still, we need to learn from Joss Whedon.
So… WWJWD?
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