My New Insight into Wikipedia

This was a very interesting assignment. I personally use Wikipedia mostly to obtain a cursory understanding of concepts and definitions.  Using Wikipedia  as a primary source for history or related subjects, I rarely do. On this assignment,  I examined some of my favorite psychologist and historians biographies. I was struck so little information was posted on them. John Henry Clark, a notable and well cited historian within the field of Africana Studies had only a blur of information. The contributors snap shots of his life were over simplistic and took some intellectual cheap shots as to his academic credentials, which was the first time I have seen that cited in reference  to his life.  The question of accuracy of facts cited on Wikipedia is reinforced when you  see such slanderous facts incorporated into bios of famous people. The discussion tab which is an unique feature of Wikipedia had a plethora of different views about this historian.    It was reinforcing to see other post question the accuracy of this wiki.   Besides some of the obvious errors, I found on people who I am very familiar with like Naim Akbar, a prominent  psychologist who has written several articles and books about the psychological and behavior functioning of Africans scatted throughout the  Western Diaspora, I was struck by the information not included on certain historical subjects and individual bios such as his.  The discussion tab gave me a unique perspective on the developing  body of work on some of my favorite history subjects and historians. Even though I might not agree with some of the information I found on some sites, I think historians should help shape the discourse on subjects within the discussion tab and refer the general  consumer of historical information to reliable sources. The discussion tab is a good way to help patrol and shape the discourse on some of your favorite subjects.