Word War III-The controversial Wikipedia

Wikipedia is an online database that allows anyone to post on whatever topic they feel like without having any scholarly background information about the given topic. In turn it has become in scholars eyes to be an unworthy site and teachers have tried to steer students away from using this source. Although anyone can make a post on Wikipedia, they do have editors that filter through the site and delete up to 1,500 non-relevant topics a day! A conscience effort is being made to make the site as trust worthy as possible. In Tom Dunkels article he talks about a mini-biography post that was made about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, current Iran president, that started out to be 73 words long but after other active Wikipedia members got to it; it ended up being a whole article on his character and accusations that he was anti Semitic. When on a public server, your words have to be chosen wisely so it does not seem offensive from a third party point-of-view. Most editors of Wikipedia or admins try to encourage people that post to write in NPOV, neutral point of view, so discrepancy of words are limited and bias articles are limited. Of course they cannot catch all of them, so some articles are not written in NPOV. I think Wikipedia is a valid site sometimes depending on the topic at hand. I actually use Wikipedia a lot but I always check my information with another credible site to eliminate the possibility of using falsified information. Like Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, stated "once compared the wiki universe to a 'softball league for geeks'." Anyone that can type and form sentences can post on Wikipedia, there is no restrictions on age or educational background so always check your sources when dealing with Wikipedia.