REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Question
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the articles are out of date
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topics are narrow or limited
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anyone can write or edit the articles
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the articles have political bias.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Anyone can remove huge amounts of text from articles or even the entire article itself, ruining lots of work. This is referred to as “blanking” by those in the Wikipedia community, and is considered vandalism.
Detailed explanation-2: -Main criticisms They may show false information. There is vandalism, where people make bad changes to articles on purpose, or with bad intents. Some articles do not have good sources. Wikipedia needs good sources in order to show the information is correct.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wikipedia has page histories. So every time you make a change to an article (or most other pages), the old version is still there too, and is almost as easily accessible to a reader or to another editor as the current version of the page. And so if you do something silly, someone else can easily undo it.