Why do extremely stupid people use Wikipedia? Wikipedia is full of unverified nonsense, original research, and NPOV violations.?

Because they're too stupid to do actual research, so they blindly believe whatever idiotpedia tells them to believe.

It is right on most things, I find. It doesn't lie about Japan being a country of Asia, for example.

Seems fine to me. Why do you care what people use??

Anyone can create a Wikipedia page to insult or use false information about someone, a lot of the things on there isn't true but most of it is true and made by people who know what they are putting on there.

Wiki's not as bad as people make it out to be. In my field and others, it offers many excellent articles, written by educated professionals.

Moreover unlike many other sites, Wiki articles can be corrected by people who know what they're talking about. If you find an error elsewhere, you can notify the site owner, but there's no guarantee it will be fixed.

Finally, while I don't accept Wiki article as sources in my classes, they do give student references and external bibliography that they can find in libraries and read for themselves.

Original research is a GOOD thing, dear. That's what scholars do. It's something that should be encouraged.

I don't use it for politics, but I have used it for general info in which bias would serve no purpose.

Wikipedia contains some real jewels and a lot of garbage of the type that inhabits facebook. Which of these one picks reflects education and IQ. Idiots avoid the jewels (which they are incapable of understanding and assume, therefore, that what is written is garbage but WE know where the REAL garbage is).

because its right 99% of the time

But, it's horses for courses

If you are looking up facts for a term paper, why not use wikipedia?

If you are working on your doctorate, go to other sources

saying 'it's stupid' just makes you look like a poseur,

It’s one of the best websites

but Wikipedia has great info on every TV show...