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The button below is a good thing to click on. Wikipedia is a source of information that in the long run is free of bias and as broad as the internet.

Currently, many schools do not allow students to cite Wikipedia. The way I see it (as a recent student), this is due to jealousy from the traditional encyclopedia companies. A free source of information keeps people away from paid sources. Most paid sources also have paid PhD's on staff that write articles. Pay for writing an article does not equal interest in a subject. Interest leads to deep investigation and accurate reporting of a subject. On the Wikipedia more people than the one that gets paid are interested, and they all have their own viewpoints, this leads to a wider discussion and less bias in a mature Wikipedia article. There have been some deliberately misleading articles about celebrities and such, but that fortunately does not apply to technical subjects. I mean, when was the last time you heard about somebody making fun of Gadolinium or an internet RFC?

In short, Wikipedia rocks and deserves to be supported. Please drop a few bucks from your PayPal acccount by clicking the button below.