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==Why It's a Trustworthy Encyclopedia==

#It is very informative, especially with historical people and events such as the 9/11 attacks, World War II, Summer of Love, George Washington, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, and several others. In addition, there are pages for almost everything that fits within their notability guidelines, including the Devious Lick trend and the "My Immortal" fan-fiction.

#*Even if some of their other pages aren't as detailed, they are very likely to be improved later due to the large userbase, or even by yourself if you are interested.

#It is very unbiased and can be useful for research purposes.

#Anyone with or without an account can edit, leading to a lot of edits on the wiki and most are very constructive and helpful.

#* You don't even need an account to start editing, and you can make edits anonymously, although it will reveal your IP address. Creating an account does have benefits, as it allows you to edit protected pages after a while and you have a chance to become part of the staff, as well as gaining recognition if you edit well enough.

#There are a lot of admins and users on the wiki, so there is a lower chance of Wikipedia's vandalism getting noticed. This also means that pages will often be updated very quickly with new information. This also means that there are a lot of people on the site to help you out if needed, as the userbase overall is very friendly. There are also editors that improves certain types of articles on the website, such as Jochem van Hees (who edits mainly Eurovision articles), AS19Portsmouth (who edits mainly F1/motorsport articles), and finally, '''Lugnuts''', who is widely considered to be among the greatest editors in Wikipedia's history.

# Wikipedia also has some essays about how to edit the wiki and what is best for a user to do on them. Not only are the essays funny sometimes, but they are also incredibly helpful, are good for learning how to become a productive editor, and are even so useful that other wikis use them to improve.

#It is multilingual, meaning pretty much anyone in the world can edit it, even non-English speakers; it also has multiple versions of the site for each language, with English Wikipedia being the most common.

#It revolutionized wikis as a whole and is responsible for making them popular.

==Bad Qualities==

#There was an incident involving the then-contributor of the site Ryulong, and Crash Override Network.

#The admins, bots and users on the site can occasionally cause problems, such as ClueBot NG, NinjaRobotPirate, and MaterialScientist. Even standard users such as Island92, Serols, and Asher Heimermann also can sometimes cause problems. Some users can be considered unfriendly to some due to their political agendas.

#*An admin by the username SummerPhD^v2.0 threatened to block a user by the name of The Man from Snowy River for "vandalism", when all they did was add pertinent cast members to a page about the film ''Benji the Hunted''. Summer dismissed the user's arguments by claiming that being uncredited automatically makes an actor "minor", and therefore, does not belong on a certain film article. She also ignored the user's advice that he got most of the information from the director of the film, thus proving that the names of the actors were indeed sourced.

#**Summer also proved to be a massive hypocrite as she threatened to block the user for "vandalizing" the page, when she herself was the one doing the vandalism.