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The first time I started using Wikipedia was in the 9^th grade for my science fair project. I was getting all of this information thinking that it came from a legit source. Unfortunately, when I got my paper back, my teacher had written that my information had to come from 9 different reliable sources, not the same one (back then I didn’t really know the difference). Needless to say, I was a little confused but as the years went by I understood why teachers don’t want their students to use Wikipedia. This article pretty much confirms everything that they ever thought about this website. In the first paragraph of the piece it says that “Ewan MacDonald posted a single sentence about the station at 11 PM, local time; over the next twenty-four hours, the entry was edited more than four hundred times, by dozens of people.”  Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information. Also in the article, it says that “anyone with internet access can create a Wikipedia entry or edit an existing one.” To test out this theory, one time last semester in my English 1102 class, we went to Wikipedia and searched for KSU. We then edited the article to make it say that the university had one of the best football programs in Georgia. Forty-eight hours later, it had been corrected. All this to say, when I research, I use Wikipedia to get me started. Then, once I have some background information, I then go to more reliable databases such as Galileo.