For years, any time I had to tackle something to do with research,
             I have been advised by teachers and peers to stay away from Wikipedia. The reason for
             this warning has been that my peers and teachers have felt that there are biased articles
             on the topics being researched. I heeded the warning and continued to stay away from it,
             although with many of my searches online, Wikipedia would work its way to the top. I only
             recently learned that a Wikipedia page can be edited by anyone, and this does cause me
             to believe that there, in fact, are articles that are one-sided and inaccurate.
             At the same time, I recently learned reading an article called, "The Wars of
             Words on Wikipedia's Outskirts" that there are editors who try to keep the biased
             views on the site as limited as possible. This increases my confidence in Wikipedia
             as a resource to some extent. One of the panel members on the
             Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee, a Mr. Davies, pointed out, "One of the problems we keep bumping
             into is what I call core belief issues - politics, religion, nationalism." My previous experiences with teachers advising me that Wikipedia is one-sided rather than neutral had to do with one of the three subject areas above. I would be researching something to do with politics, religion, or national/culturally identity, and they feared that I would encounter biased information, making my findings invalid for research purposes. I do agree that high school students should not use Wikipedia as one of their top reference sources.
             Though I do have a concern about Wikipedia articles potentially being biased,
             I am somewhat less worried after reading the article, "The Wars of Words on Wikipedia's
             Outskirts." It was in this article that discovered that there even is such a thing as the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee. This committee functions like a watchdog, examining articles that are new or edited. They work hard ...