Gotta love Wikipedia!

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

Why would ANYONE on this board even read Wikipedia??? It's a pariah in the education community, because it's not considered a reliable source of information. It's only as good as what everyone puts on it; much of it is false information. I can't believe anyone on this board wanted to quote it as to our fellow brothers and sisters of the stripes!

Speaking as a retired teacher, who is now working as a chemist, and who is quite familiar with research reliability, some of what you state is correct, but Wikipedia is a good place to start research, but, like any research, followup research, as in other, additional sources, is always required.

And, Wikipedia might not be as unreliable as you may think: Reliability of Wikipedia: Information from Answers.com