Wikipedia world

Wow, I was amazed at the breadth and depth of what Wikipedia covered. Trying to come up with a topic that I felt I knew more about than the person who wrote an article was difficult. At times I thought I was drawing close, more with spelling or typing errors and some grammatical corrections than with any new content. But even than I didn't totally trust myself to make changes unless, being the old time reference person that I am, I went away and thoroughly researched the topic with verifiable sources. I found the historical type of articles on well known topics seemed to be well done. Perhaps there are more errors with popular culture postings or breaking news, though I was impressed with the information they had on the earthquake that happened in California/Arizona on Easter Sunday. The information seemed pretty trustworthy because it backed up what was said in our local paper and by my mother who was in Dateland, Arizona at the time and experienced it first hand. So I don't know, for a quick and dirty search on a subject I would use Wikipedia but I would probably want to back up my research with verifying the information from another source because I found it was extremely easy to edit and if you had a big ego and a high opinion of yourself anyone could edit anything on the site and someone might believe them!