My Dad and Susan Boyle are Birthday Twins

Of all the blogs that I have read, they have left me really thinking about the ownership of Wikipedia's community created information. Seriously, who would want to claim to own public information on Susan Boyle or official knowledge and backup proof on dying of laughter, written in a highly researched manner. Much like the reading about the use (or lack of use) of cognitive surplus, I think that as people of relatively intelligent social media skills, we all have the ability to claim ownership to the content of Wikipedia, only if we have made a sizable contribution to it. I wouldn't claim to have taken part in it because I haven't even thought about ever editing a page. But how are we supposed to know if the people who are in charge of the page are accepting the correct information to have on the Wikipedia page? I'm making myself more curious on that matter now. How would we know if they are just re paraphrasing what so many other Google-searched sites are saying about a certain topic?

All three of my classmates mentioned the credibility of a Wikipedia post in the eyes of a school system. These can easily be argued, but we as society (or the teachers who say Wikipedia isn't allowed) are not thinking logically in the sense that the information presented to us has to come from somewhere. Most of this information is listed in the footnotes as references anyway!

I was curious about how the legitimacy of Wikipedia information was and of the once rising star, Susan Boyle. As just, I simply popped in a Wikipedia search and was presented with nearly every fact that I care to know, or for the most part, overly care as well. Going through ridiculous information on this homebody who had her 20 minutes of minimal fame, I recalled all the times when I had watched her on Youtube and Facebook. I confidently announce that my dad and I both enjoyed listening to her debut album, "I Dreamed A Dream" over and over again. With so many dreams of dreams, I was too distracted to realize that Susan Boyle is still going strong and has 6 albums, if not most all of which are relatively inconspicuous to the public. 

Nonetheless, I have no doubt that her Wikipedia page was bursting at the clicks with self-proclaimed knowledge of the woman. The most important piece of information Wikipedia provided me with was Susan's birthday. Without it, I would have never created the harebrained assumption that my dad and Susan are possibly long, lost fraternal twins separated at birth. For all we know, accents are just a ploy and Wikipedia is secretly trying to take over the world, one talented Brit at a time.

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"Susan Boyle - Britains Got Talent 2009 Episode 1 - Saturday 11th April." YouTube, uploaded by UKAdvertChannel, 11 Apr. 2009, www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk. Accessed 12 Sept. 2016.

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