Board Thread:New on Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki/@comment-112155-20160701173956/@comment-5561191-20160707152445

TomasDerksen wrote:

CHDPT wrote: Admins jobs are not easy, I understand, but the information needs to be kept as current and accurate as possible and this seems to be difficult to achieve even with valid references. As I noted, I think this is one of the reasons that to the public as a whole especially schools, etc... That wiki is not usually accepted as a reliable and valid source or reference. About your remark that wiki is not a source accepted by schools. I see that is a normal thing, wikipedia (the normal one) and all wikia's can be edited by who ever wants and especially with wikia's the edits can be affected by opinions off people. Using Wikipedia or Wikia as a source for anything is then also highly disencouraged. Well, I don't know if I'm going out of topic here. Delete the comment later if you feel like I am. But I do think Wikias and even certain areas of Wikipedia can be reliable. Like I said, I read stuff about Marvel every day, even in Wikipedia, and the information they offer there is totally reliable, and the reason is simple: it's a page about something that requires constant editing because news about Marvel stuff never stop coming. Plus, there are lots of people like me who are interested in Marvel and visit these pages everyday, so the quantity of edits and visitors makes it hard for a mistake to go unnoticed.

However, a page that is not visited so often, like one about a historic battle or an island in the Pacific, are much more susceptible to mistakes. I don't know if Wikipedia has admins, but even if it does, imagine how it would be for them: "Someone just edited this Pacific island page, but that's not my area. I'm here to take care of the historic battle pages, so I know nothing about Pacific islands and I can't know if there's any mistake there". For me, if you want to know the credibility of a Wikipedia page, just go check out the number of references and the references themselves, because they are the true sources of information. The Pacific Island one shouldn't have more than 7. The ones about the MCU usually don't have less than 20.

The Wikias, however, seem to be easier to take care of, which also makes them more reliable. First, because they have less pages than Wikipedia. Second, because the users usually aren't limited to a single area - I guess that's the point of the Wikias, right? A smaller version of Wikipedia about one of its areas. So the guy who usually edits the Agents of SHIELD pages might also know about Daredevil and the Phase 2 movies. It's much easier to know about those topics at once than knowing about Pacific islands and historic battles at once, for example. That's why Wikias are more successful than the original Wikipedia. This one in particular also uses lots of references, which is great, so I really don't see why someone would descredit this particular Wikia.