1. Its easy to change mostly anything, but Wikipedia has become such an important source with a following that is dedicated enough to pick up any discrepancies, changes, falsehoods on heavily trafficked subjects.
2. Those that are most heavily trafficked are most relevant to the lives of the greatest number of people.
3. Its easy to write something false or overly subjective on less relevant subjects, but if they are less relevant, who really cares? In the whole scheme of things, does it matter if there are some inaccuracies on the Trinity College wikipedia site? Its my presumption that its not a particularly highly trafficked page. I doubt its used by anyone as the first go-to to find out information on the college. Thats what www.trincoll.edu is for!
4. The ease and access of true information that is obtained outweighs the few bad apples that can be found. To reference the basic Econ 101 formula, marginal utility > marginal cost!!!
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