Editing Wikipedia Stubs

  Wikipedia is one of the most popular online encyclopaedias used daily by many people. This week's ALES204 assignment was to find a stub, which is an incomplete article in Wikipedia.Our task was to build upon it with information given from trusted resources. I believe this assignment was administrated to us in order to vividly allow us to view the unreliability and inaccuracy of Wikipedia. Anybody with an access to the internet would be able to create an account on Wikipedia and edit articles. This week I created an account and edited the stub of Lipase Inhibitors. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipase_inhibitors).I used trusted articles, books and webpages to address correct information about these lipase inhibitors. Yet, others may use unreliable resources and presented false information to the public.
  Likewise, my fellow classmate Lindsay Gervais edited an article in Wikipedia about Superfood. (http://lindsaygervais.blogspot.ca/2012/03/editing-wikipedia-stubs.html ).As she mentioned, that somebody has edited her article and introduced incorrect information which contradicts with the findings she gathered from accurate resources. This reveals the inconsistency and inaccuracy with the information displayed in Wikipedia articles. Additionally, as Erin stated in her lecture on Wednesday, individuals editing and creating articles in Wikipedia would shape information suiting their thoughts and believes. This could lead to a misunderstanding of information presented on a topic to the public as Jessie's blog post demonstrated. Furthermore, Erin suggested a very possible action that could take place and harm others. Pharmaceutical companies may edit information about drugs like the lipase inhibitors and deleted the side effects caused by it.
  On the other hand, the stub that I edited about lipase inhibitors in Wikipedia was deleted initially from Wikipedia by the administrators for unrevealed reasons. This may have occured considering the fact that I edited the article more than ten times in less than an hour because I was having difficulties fully publishing my gatherings from trusted journal articles. Another reason that could have been responsible for the article deletion would be that Wikipedia viewed that the article initially didn’t have references linked to the information presented. This brought to my attention the fact that Wikipedia administrators are watching the modulations that occur on this website. Yet, this reason can be invalid.

 Afterwards, I edited the lipase inhibitors stub again, but before uploading my references somebody suggested that my article has no references and needed cleaning up. Although after ten minutes the references were presented on the screen. This person’s rating could cause others to believe that this article written is invalid and inaccurate while I worked very hard to find trusted articles and webpages to display the correct information. Thus the actions permitted by Wikipedia for others to edit and rate articles causes Wikipedia to be very misleading. Wikipedia could be used by people to settle an argument on dinner but should not be trusted. In fact, while I am writing this blog post, I overheard two students arguing about how many games a famous hockey player has played in his life. One of the students searched the hockey player’s name on Wikipedia and figured out an answer.