When I first began looking at the JFK assassination page it seemed like a very well rounded source. It had a lot of detailed categories. The section I was responsible for was the conspiracy section, which was a very interesting section to read. It gave a general listing of the different conspiracy theories out there and linked me to the full conspiracy page. The reaction to assassination section was simply a listing of a couple different statistics with no real link to each other. I then began looking at sources, and out pure interest on the subject I read through them all. The amount of information and perspective I gained from reading these sources was unmatchable to the information found on the wiki page.
Overall I decided that Wikipedia was not a reliable page to use as a source of a paper or project. I think Wikipedia can have biased or missing information pretty easily and should not be fully trusted. The strengths of Wikipedia which can be exploited is that it categorizes information on the web and other sources and makes it easy to find what you want. It is kind of a table of contents of the web and can be used to find detailed information without having to look through google pages. Use it to start your research and find other places to find more information on your topic.
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