Well I send Jimmy Wales ten quid a year in gratitude for Wikipedia. The thing is, you really ought to read it as you should read even the best newspapers, with a critical eye and a sceptical brain, and anything dodgy can be cross-checked elsewhere anyway. If you want to look at sources that are full of faults and shortcomings, just look at the much-vaunted Encyclopaedia Britannica or Grove's Dictionary of Music. They're riddled. Interesting that the person above who is casting aspersions on wiki has a serial penchant for quoting from the Daily Mail and Guido Fawkes. As you yanks might say, go figure. Actually, it doesn't take much figuring at all.