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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4147741" data-attributes="member: 8863">Wow, that does sound like an asshat.I use Wikipedia, but only for certain things.  I would never bother using it for something like political research, way WAY too many egos potentially going at in in massive edit wars and so on.  I wouldn't know what articles to trust on contemporary politics, so I won't even bother.  I don't edit the Wikipedia, and I don't keep up with the edits or any of the behind the site politicking.  I sinply don't care, except for basically thinking that it's a good idea, but it needs enough good people behind it to keep it good.  Unfortunately, the good people are pretty much volunteers, and have only so much patience with asshats.  And there's personal ego going on.  I'm enough of an artiste that I'd get irritated if someone edited something I wrote that's within standards, and they're just being picky, so I don't bother with it.  Honestly, I always do better alone in creative endeavors, and I usually don't like working in a group unless it's a small group and the other members have compatible personalities.I do find it informative for obscure subjects that are lightly covered or ignored in more traditional sources.  There's an incredible amount of information out there, and Wikipedia sometimes can bring it to light.</blockquote>