There are some entries on Wikipedia that are excellent sources of information. Others, not so much. Since Wikipedia is a user-generated encyclopedia, it is only as good as its contributors. While they have taken steps in recent months to verify information that is posted there, it is still vulnerable to editing.
A good rule of thumb is to get more than one source for the information you find there. See if there are sources provided with each entry and follow them to see where the information may have come from.
Also, since Wikipedia pays the search engines to be the first entry to show up on the search results, they tend to get overused instead of more legitimate sources of information.
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