Is Wikipedia accurate?
If anyone can write or edit an article, how are you to know whether the information they submit is accurate? Remember, Wikipedia articles are not written by trained professionals. As such, there are no guarantees that what you read will be a complete and accurate accounting of a given topic. Indeed, mistakes do creep into the article database, and some contributors are more informed and quality-conscious than others. There are even, unfortunately, some contributors who deliberately enter false information, for whatever reasons. This can and does result in some sketchy, inaccurate, and even biased articles. Remember, though, that the Wikipedia community is charged with policing the articles submitted to the site. But not all articles receive the same level of scrutiny; it’s laughably easy for malicious or inadvertent misinformation to creep into articles, especially those that aren’t widely viewed. More popular articles, fortunately, receive more frequent scrutiny and are more likely to
