[DaleHCook]

Actually, English language Wikipedia is reasonably accurate.

That accuracy can vary greatly depending upon subject in areas in which I have expertise. I have found Wikipedia to be generally accurate in music, as I have had a career working in radio which began in 1969.

I find Wikipedia to be significantly less accurate in genealogy, where I began my research about 1988. I soon learned how to conduct that research in accordance with professional and scholarly standards. I have since been published in one of the scholarly genealogical journals. For years I have written a column for a popular journal which practices scholarly standards. In recent years I have become part of the governance of the largest all-volunteer genealogical project in the country. Too high a percentage of the genealogical articles on Wikipedia are written by people who are not working in accordance with professional and scholarly standards. The errors in those articles reveal the lack of proper research on the part of the writer.