Videogame footage used in real war documentary

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and then the rest of the world is giving Americans slack, lol @ the british.

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That said, I've also learned that certain universities and academic fields have had professors and higher-level graduate students form teams to verify and improve the information available, so some of what you'll find on Wikipedia is professionally handled and considered by experts in fields pertaining to that subject. Not all of course, but some. Corporations and government offices will also do this for pages related to them, though there have been episodes of corporate shenanigans to downplay crises or edit controversial or negative material pertaining to them.

Take it for what it is.

This. Nobody cites Wikipedia in academia because it is modifiable, but everyone uses it. It's usually a fantastic source for finding a good overview on a topic. It's where I usually start looking for information when I begin research in a new area because you can often get a better no-nonsense overview of a topic from Wikipedia than you can from scientific journals. Often times it's even better than a scientific review article (my other major starting point for learning a new topic). Of course, anyone who does research though, knows they are going to have to cross reference and find multiple sources to validate a point. And obviously, when you want empirical support, you're going to go to the source and find the journal articles that actually describe the studies. Wikipedia is great though and a surprisingly good resource, particularly if you're looking for topics that the average layperson isn't even going to know enough about to search for becaues then you usually just find other professionals that have edited the wiki.

God dammit JT why do you keep making posts that pretty much sum up what I want to say?