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This suggests that the accuracy of Wikipedia is high. However, the results should not be seen as support for Wikipedia as a totally reliable resource as, according to the experts, 13 percent of the articles contain mistakes (10% of the experts reported factual errors of an unspecified degree, 3% of them reported spelling errors)." [89]
So Wikipedia:Verifiability is a major help towards the accuracy goal, but does not alone guarantee it. Re-wording with attribution is a way to convert an inaccurate or subjective statement to an accurate one. For example: "The US never landed on the moon" is inaccurate, "John Smith said that the US never landed on the moon." could be accurate.
If a Wikipedia article links to this page, it is due to an editor's concerns regarding the accuracy of statements within that article. Statements causing such concern are marked with the tags [disputed – discuss] or [dubious – discuss]. An editor can insert such a warning by using the templates {{Disputed inline}} or {}.
But many published errors have not resulted in retractions. As Carl Sagan pointed out in his The Demon-Haunted World, experts can be wrong or not even experts in the field in question. [1] This means that using the fact that a source is verifiable to say it is accurate is the argument from authority fallacy.
The average Wikipedian on English Wikipedia is (1) a man, (2) technically inclined, (3) formally educated, (4) an English speaker (native or non-native), (5) white, (6) aged 15–49, (7) from a nominally Christian country, (8) from an industrialized nation, (9) from the Northern Hemisphere, and (10) likely employed as an intellectual rather ...
Accuracy is also used as a statistical measure of how well a binary classification test correctly identifies or excludes a condition. That is, the accuracy is the proportion of correct predictions (both true positives and true negatives) among the total number of cases examined. [10]
The consensus: the encyclopedia is as accurate as other encyclopedias. And as Cathy Davidson, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University, pointed out in "We Can't Ignore the Influence of Digital Technologies" ( Chronicle of Higher Education , March 23, 2007), unlike comparable print sources, Wikipedia errors can be corrected and ...
Encyclopædia Britannica© - Errors at the Internet Accuracy Project's "Errors contained in reference books" page Boy brings encyclopaedia to book BBC News UK, 26 January 2005 (Article about a 12 year old who found five errors in Britannica)