Like I said, wikipedia I use it, just with caution & you're right to say it's not the only place with sometimes missleading information..... I steer clear of Dorling Kindersley & Usbourne..... DK have "A version" of events & Usbourne just have some fairly poor grammer.
I don't trust wikipedia which leaves you, in your world, writing about things about the world in your world..... If you see the point that it certainly has bias.
Is wikipedia the best we have? Perhaps, though I try to look elsewhere
Is the truth out there? Let's ask Fox Mulder! Of course we all find out things that we held to be true, that are later proven to be false/miss-leading.
My recommendation is to watch a program on BBC 2 hosted by Stephen Fry called QI (Standing for Quite Interesting). It plays out like a game show come after dinner chat. Panelists get points for making interesting conversation & the validity of there facts determines there point scoring. When asked the point at which water can be either a solid, liquid or gas the answer is 0 degrees....... or so though Dara O'Brien... & then only when he reappeared on the show, & somebody had written in to correct the fact that the freezing point of water is 0.4 degrees! & quiz master Stephen Fry deducted points from his score!
The show freely admits that you may have a different version of "The Facts", but the show does investigate and attempt to validify the facts it proposes.
I don't trust wikipedia which leaves you, in your world, writing about things about the world in your world..... If you see the point that it certainly has bias.
Is wikipedia the best we have? Perhaps, though I try to look elsewhere
Is the truth out there? Let's ask Fox Mulder! Of course we all find out things that we held to be true, that are later proven to be false/miss-leading.
My recommendation is to watch a program on BBC 2 hosted by Stephen Fry called QI (Standing for Quite Interesting). It plays out like a game show come after dinner chat. Panelists get points for making interesting conversation & the validity of there facts determines there point scoring. When asked the point at which water can be either a solid, liquid or gas the answer is 0 degrees....... or so though Dara O'Brien... & then only when he reappeared on the show, & somebody had written in to correct the fact that the freezing point of water is 0.4 degrees! & quiz master Stephen Fry deducted points from his score!
The show freely admits that you may have a different version of "The Facts", but the show does investigate and attempt to validify the facts it proposes.