Originally Posted by AmeliaG

It is easy and free to look things up on Wikipedia, so people tend to use it. I know that, for anything I am very informed about, I can tell that Wikipedia is egregiously inaccurate. Their crowd-sourcing system eliminates the accountability which might make it more accurate. No knowledge source is perfect, but that one is particularly bad. Certainly, for anything about currently living people and present day brands, I think the site is an abomination. If people want to pay for quality research, there are better options. For a free one, it sometimes seems more worthwhile than, ya know, nothing.