[Col. Angus]

Damn - I fell for it..Looked up 'Lucky Pierre' but wish I hadn't.

[Maximinus Thrax]

Wikipedia is acceptable as a compilation of sources, but not as a source itself. A compilation's validity is the sum of its parts - validate the sources cited, and if none are cited, it's probably not a good idea to present the information as evidence.

[Titus001]

Originally Posted by zane

Everything on Wikipedia is true. Did you know Lincoln had a hollow wooden leg that he filled with whiskey and then drank it during speeches?

That sounds cool!

Only thing that is true is this

Whoever is changing the fall of the Roman empire to 1453 AD please keep it up. No need for the outdated date of 476AD when the eastern side survived for another 1000 years and continued to call themselves ROMAN! Byzantines= Romans. "The people who lived in the "Byzantine Empire" never knew nor used the word "Byzantine." They know themselves to be Romans, nothing more and absolutely nothing less. By transferring the Imperial capital from Rome on the Tiber to the New Rome on Bosphorus, dubbed Constantinople, the Emperor Constantine I had transferred the actual identity of Rome to the new location. Long before Constantine I, the idea of "Rome" had become dissociated from the Eternal City on the Tiber. For a Roman meant a Roman citizen, whereever he lived.

Funny that some people here still believe in the myth that the roman empire only lasted 400 years or fell in 476AD. The Eastern Roman empire lasted another 1,000 years but they are not roman when they the people called themselves roman? They continued the roman past and HAD the same borders but we modern people have to invent a new word to describe an empire that they never knew nor used the words byzantine. They called themselves roman and so shall we for the correct history of this empire from 27bc-- 1453AD. I urge the people to change the date from 476AD to the correct date of 1453AD. Enough of the propaganda that the empire fell in 476AD when the eastern roman empire survived for another 1,000 years. I suggest you read the link I gave about the "Byzantines". It is also a joke that the "Holy Roman empire" is even mentioned in this wiki page. They should be removed.

What, If Anything, Is A Byzantine?

Roman Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Talk:Roman Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[1000 yrd. stare]

Originally Posted by HeadBanger

Usually I know what I'm talking about so I know what I'm going to get.

source?

[MyCatIsFat]

Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica

Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate information as Britannica, the venerable standard-bearer of facts about the world around us, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature.

For its study, Nature chose articles from both sites in a wide range of topics and sent them to what it called "relevant" field experts for peer review. The experts then compared the competing articles--one from each site on a given topic--side by side, but were not told which article came from which site. Nature got back 42 usable reviews from its field of experts.

In the end, the journal found just eight serious errors, such as general misunderstandings of vital concepts, in the articles. Of those, four came from each site. They did, however, discover a series of factual errors, omissions or misleading statements. All told, Wikipedia had 162 such problems, while Britannica had 123.

That averages out to 2.92 mistakes per article for Britannica and 3.86 for Wikipedia.

Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica - CNET News.com