In my experience, Wikipedia is normally a credible and reliable website to use for research or entertainment. In the past I have frequently used Wikipedia to gain a basic understanding of any new topic I am interested in, and my friends and I have in the past played “The Wikipedia Game!”  It puts two (or more) people at a given Wikipedia article as a start point, and they must navigate to another end point article only by clicking hyperlinks within the articles, sometimes the winner was determined by the time it took to get to the end article, sometimes by the number of clicks it took them to get there. Teachers do often prohibit its use as a reference for assignments because anyone can edit the information on any of the articles, whether they know it to be true or not. Though this means that occasionally an article will contain false information most of the time the articles have been written and fact checked by people who know what they are writing about so it is generally a reliable source. Also usually if an article has been written or edited by with false information it’s obvious. I will usually use Wikipedia for research on a school assignment and use their references to find sources that teachers would find acceptable. The article is written in such a way that Wikipedia is this wonderful place to find information written by benevolent writers who seek only to better humanity.  The writer of the article even mentions how it’s sounding that way. I agree with the idea that Wikipedia is a reliable source of information. However I would also advise that one uses a healthy amount of skepticism and suspicion when navigating the website.