Is it credible? Should I do this? What will I write? These are a few thoughts drifting through my head. What harm could it cause if I edited just one page. I could add a word that most people would look meow over in another setting. Did you catch that? Maybe. Maybe Not. I could do something small. I could do something large. Boom everything is gone. Will my one edit alter someone else's life. If I edit say the Nobel Prize page for 1969 and put it as Barbara Kingsolver for the invention of cheese what will happen to the 12 year old student doing an internet scavenger hunt looking for the 1969 Nobel Prize winner? The real question here is how will our actions affect the people around us. Like the article we read on Wikipedia describes, there are no rules to prevent us from doing these things, but there are standards. When I was told to edit Wikipedia I was filled with humor, joy, and confusion. My teacher was asking me to edit a page, legitimately or not.
If I had to edit one page I would definitely edit the page for Laurel, MS. I do not know much about certain statistics, but I feel as if I would be qualified to add a section on social life and activities. Although my town is not a "big" city there is still a lot to do if you know where to go. It may not be "necessary" it terms of a wikipedia page for information, but if someone was visiting my town they would know where to go and what to do.
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You make a good point when you say that our actions on Wikipedia could affect millions of people around the world. Although Wikipedia gives us the power to edit whatever we want, that doesn't mean we should abuse that power to provide false information. I think that's why Wikipedia is also so successful; people don't want to abuse a system that works so well already and that provides a lot of good information.
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