User: Muboshgu
This editor is a baseball fan and loves U.S. history and politics. He basically edits only for fun and something to do, but you can tell he has a passion for it.
User: Y2kcrazyjoker4
This editor is also not a professional and just edits in spare time on topics he is interested in, mainly U2.
User: Fuzheado
This editor seems the most professional out of the three I looked at. He is a jounalist, author of The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia, and journalism professor.
The first two users I looked at made me feel a little more reluctant to believe everything on wikipedia because they are not professionals in the topics they are editing. However, even though the third was not a professional on the subject either, he had more credentials that seemed to give his words more honesty than the others.
What kinds of things were being discussed on the Wikpedia "talk" page? How did those discussions make you think about the reliability of Wikipedia?
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