Week 2

It is my OPINION that Wikipedia should not be a source for students to use when doing research for any history project. A project for history requires information that is fact and that can be proven. The main problem with Wikipedia sites is that some times the information provided is not cited so there is no way to check the accuracy of the information and whether or not the author of the article plagiarized, which would lead a student to unknowingly plagiarize. Another problem I have with Wikipedia is that a lot of times it includes others opinions about a topic rather than fact. I have determined this on several different topics using creditable sites that refuted what was put on a Wikipedia article. I do not believe these sites need to be dismissed completely, but for a student writing a research paper in history, Wikipedia sites would not be the best source in which to gather facts about their topic.