User:Awaggener/Wikipedia supporters

Wikipedia Supporters, or Wikipedia Lovers, are those who stand firm behind Wikipedia as a good site, and a good idea, regardless of vandalism and untruths in some articles. Started December 7 2005 at the University of Puget Sound, it is an informal group of individuals who maintain that the site has inherent value as an encyclopedia that anyone can edit, an illimitable fount of knowledge, and an almost divine exemplification of the good of people as a whole, given the fact that article writing and editing are based on the Honor System, and that most people try their best to support the community by putting objective, factual information in the articles. The group was started after the article "It's online, but is it true?" in USA Today, an article questioning the online collaborative encyclopedia's credibilty, which pointed out the much argued and well founded point that because anyone can edit it anonymously, it is hard to trust. By the Wikipedia Supporters, this is taken as a truth, and it is hoped that anyone using Wikipedia realizes that it is only an immense and powerful tool for the hungry mind to learn, not for citations in formal documents for exactly this fact, and that information learned should be taken "with a grain of salt".