I personally prefer the textbooks over Wikipedia. There are few reasons:1. Only few people have written the textbook, in contrast, on Wikipedia, anyone could edit anything.
2. I know the person who has written the textbook, I know the editor of the text book; meanwhile, on Wikipedia, I don't know who wrote it - which makes it unreliable.
3. Since anyone could edit the information posted on Wikipedia, the research is not provided properly. The textbook is more organized and has factual information due to the information of the author, and editors, etc.
Overall, Wikipedia is a good source, but the information is not reliable, due to everyone's access to editing the page. I agree that Wikipedia's got great pictures on some research, and it does a great job with certain topics, but I wouldn't prefer using Wikipedia to learn something in class. I prefer the textbook, because it's neatly organized, very well descriptive and filled with important facts - which in Wikipedia, there is just way too much information which is sometimes useless/unnecessary for teaching or for knowing.
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