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Originally Posted by SirClintonPortis

There will always being enough "good cops" to utilize the banhammer or limiting the access to editing the article itself. Every change is logged as well.

Print is "permanent" and the error may go unnoticed for generations if the subject is even semi-obscure.

Wikipedia may have some biases in some articles where the subject lends itself to biased admins ****ing things up, but it's better than a printed encyclopedia from the 70s.

And there's a whole ton of spinoffs that may be better or worse depending on their specialty.

If we set aside the issue of being current, no, Wikipedia is not as good as a printed encyclopedia. Encyclopedias hire experts to write their articles based on trained, in-depth research. In contrast, on Wikipedia any jackass can write anything they wish.