Okay, don't shoot! At least hear me out first.
Wiki's and Wikipedia have a place in the internet world. It is not a place to find information to include in your research paper. It is a place to find and share information, ideas and opinions. My mind was fully changed today when I found out the book "And Tango Makes Three" was a true story. i knew this title was ALA's 2006 most challenged title, but i did not know its main characters were real. I wanted to find out how or if this changed any feeling about the book. I did a Google search and Wikipedia popped up. Here I found links to several articles which were very informative, in fact they were exactly what I was looking for. In this case I was more interested in what other people thought about the topic rather than the facts so a wiki worked well!
I by no means think that people should base research on what they find in Wikipedia, let alone a google search, but wikis do have their place.
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