The Unreliableness of Wikipedia

Wikipedia is remarkably accurate, but the longs you stay away from like hot topic political, the more controversial and the more obscure the page, then those will be way harder to get truth on. I know somebody who added an entry for a Lovecraftian beast. That's a bar. And then of course, Stephen Colbert was all happy that he, uh, saved the elephants. He increased the elephant population by having everyone who watches the show say that they were doing like their populations were skyrocketing. It was a thing that he did to have all his fans go into Wikipedia and edit it up. If everyone took Wikipedia's word for it in the elephant population, should we have stopped worrying