I confess I've done the same and spent hours browsing and skimming over adult star names. Wikipedia is updated daily and an accurate source of info from what I've encountered.

When Jon Dough died recently as a result of suicide, his profile was updated the same day. Wikipedia is a great source of info and they list their sources which gives them credibility. Their search box is excellent and user friendly.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

I heard that any person with an account on wikipedia can put anything they want on there. I bet most info is accurate but sometimes I feel that the information is wrong. You can never be sure with wikipedia!

wikipedia is not an accurate source of information.of course just looking up porn stars info it doesnt really matter if it is accurate or not.

Porn stars are not people to look up too, I suggest you look into people who have done something with their life that you can look up to them for. Keep the porn stars for the dick jacking nothing more.

Hey Smithee,

I didn't know that. I've used it a lot and have not come across anything that I can identify as inaccurate or questionable. If what you state goes on with no checks or verification, then I would assume some info is misleading. That's news to me.

Yeah, it can be fairly unreliable... some professors loathe it to the point where any paper with a wiki cited in the references automatically gets an F.

Indeed, I have encountered the same in graduate school, university professors frowning upon the use of the internet as a source for thesis research and warning against using such sources. I understand their skepticism as the internet is not a verifiable source, but the internet is also undeniably a wealth of information, often accurate information that in not easily accesible elsewhere.

Rather than use a random source from an internet search engine for your papers, I found using articles from a university/college LIBRARY reference as a legitimate means as long as you list their publication and record it appropriately as a source according to the standard format in use for your specific research.

Colleges/universities have an on-line library and have search engines for specific topics. Within these search engines is stored a huge database of articles written by researchers covering a forum of many topics. It is these articles that your professors should accept for the most part provided you list their name and source.

My take on these professors for harboring anger at the internet resources is such of regarding these people as non-legeit since many did not earn credentials and then go ahead and post official looking results/opinions. The professors are right in questioning their legitimacy but also wrong in dismissing the credibility of all of such articles.

For the most part, it boils down to university professors feeling invaded by sources intruding upon a territory that formally was their own and no one elses. Now, anyone can post an article, disguise it as official and no one can do anything about it without confirming its veracity or authenticity which takes considerable time and energy.

My suggestion is use the library articles on-line from your institution. Ask for the librarian who is responsible for research, not rely upon the desk librarian who usually are clueless as to research or how to go about it. More often, the college/university librarian staff in charge of specific research have the knowledge to help and guide you to finding the answers to your questions.

Hope this helps.

Yup I know. The two colleges I have been to both have huge online databases with a decent-ish supply of full text documents. They never took away my access to the first one... and for non-students the price tag for the same acess is ridiculous. Haha I feel like an insider.

My Social Studies teacher said that she looked up jousting(I think) one day then the next day it said farting.x333

You're like me. But instead of porn starts, I look up murdered and kidnapped children on wikipedia. I was looking at them for an hour the other day. tehehe ^_^

Who's your favourite?

i'v done that before to about a week ago

encyclopediadramatica.com is the funnier version of wikipedia.