An editorial is an article or publication. What my teachers told me about Wikipedia is that it is mostly not true on what they say and it should not be trusted. Other teachers told me that I could use it for some topics that I can't find from other sites and to make sure that I really couldn't find it. My opinion for Wikipedia is that it's good and that if I really couldn't find what I was looking for I would use Wikipedia. In middle school, my teachers said to never use it.
With Wikipedia, I personally don't mind using it. I don't see anything wrong with it, unless you trust it to much. I don't trust Wikipedia all that well, since from my middle school teachers repeatively telling me to never use it. I fell like if people like my middle school teachers would trust Wikipedia more often. I feel like people could get there work done a lot faster, but still don't always trust it.
What I read from <a href="http://www.northjersey.com/opinion/opinion-wikipedia-is-more-than-just-a-global-encyclopedia-1.1097335">this editorial</a>, has really change my opinion on Wikipedia. It really showed me that Wikipedia can really help people new to searching for information out. People from college and University's have even said that new time students have even loved it after using it for awhile. This editorial makes me want to use Wikipedia more often, but I'm still a bit nervous on using it. For everyone else, you may agree with me or may not agree with me, but I'm really still scared of using Wikipedia for research because of my middle school teachers telling me to never use it and it is wired into my brain, but maybe one day I will get used to using it again.
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