An editorial is a something that someone writes and publishes for others to read and can be editted. Wikepedia is an excellent example of an editorial. Although Wikipedia is a very popular website, teachers do not usually reccomend it for research- atleast my teachers do not. Teachers would always say "You can use any source to help you research, however, DO NOT use wikipedia!" Everyone would always wonder why, but no one ever said anything. We just followed directions and didn't use wikipedia.
One day, one of the students in my class raised their hand and asked, "Why can't we use wikipedia?" The teacher then explained that wikipedia was not a trustworthy cite because anyone was allowed to edit the cite. This was a good thing because false information could be changed, but this could also be a bad thing. Many times, wikipedia is wrong because people change the correct information either on purpose or by accident. Many times the background is right, but the dtails are incorrect. Because of the false information, our teachers do not like when their students use wikipedia.
After reding this article, my opinion has not changed. I still do not believe people should be using wikipedia. Yes, it might be fun to edit information, but there are times where student's information can be wrong and will lead to others learning the wrong information. This means that when students are writing their own essays or reports for school, they'll get points taken off for incorrect information that others edited onto a cite. Using wikipedia might be a good way to know the backgrounf information of a certain topic, but should not be used as a source to write a report of any such.
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