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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26573987, member: 4626&quot;]It&#039;s a good source of basic knowledge, at least on topics that aren&#039;t particularly controversial so there&#039;s no effort by people to push a certain point of view on things.&nbsp; It actually is a good way to <i>start</i> research, get you acquainted about the topic, then look at what they cite as sources for the article and look those up.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember when they kept insisting that the Sacagawea dollar was the first US coin to depict someone still alive... something contradicted by their own articles.&nbsp; I mean, first of all, they were counting models that artists used, and if you count those... almost all US coins would count.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t count models, Sacagawea was obviously not still alive in 2000.&nbsp; Even if it somehow counted... it would not be the first, quite a few coins predating 2000 also depicted people still alive at the time, and they weren&#039;t just an image based on a model, but representative of the actual person.&nbsp; The real funny thing?&nbsp; When I tried pointing this out to the person that kept reverting my edits, they claimed that the Wikipedia articles that refuted the claim... weren&#039;t reliable sources lol.&nbsp; Well fine, I cited Red Book and many other sites that proved there wasn&#039;t any way to come up with any criteria that would make the Sacagawea dollar the first US coin depicting someone still living, I don&#039;t even know where anyone got that idea.&nbsp; (Fun fact: we don&#039;t even in fact know what Sacagawea actually looked like... there&#039;s no existing portrait of her done by someone that actually saw her during her lifetime.&nbsp; All portraits are basically just guesses at what she may have looked like.&nbsp; The portrait on the Sacagawea dollar is based on someone from Sacagawea&#039;s tribe that posed as the model for it.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry if that was too long a detour from the topic at hand but I always remember this from the one time I attempted to correct a mistake in Wikipedia.&nbsp; BTW they did eventually remove the claim about the Sacagawea dollar anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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