Re: Advice on Athlon 64 upgrade to replace Sempron 64

From: Dan

A *general* question of wikipedia:  Does anyone care to estimate the
accuracy of information presented in wikipedia?  Is there a vetting
process
for verifying information?  My take has been to use wikipedia as a
starting
point and let other "verifiable" sources of information (hopefully linked
to
in the wiki) prove the accuracy.

Be careful how you ask this question, Dan.  You may incur the wrath of the
"social organismists" (a word I just now made up).  In general, the
Wikipedia is looked upon as one of THE standards by which you can measure
the overall accuracy of a social network.  The Wikipedia is "vetted" by the
community; if someone posts something wrong, someone else will fix it.

In regard to things technical, or "neutrally factual", the Wikipedia does a
pretty good job overall.  I use it much like you do; I get initial
information and then do my own verification.  I've found its data to be
pretty darned accurate.

Things that are more political or ideological in nature can be somewhat more
biased.

Joe