Wiki-Crap?

Wikipedia is an internet based encyclopaedia made free to the public to access and edit. Complete with over 2 000 000 articles its easy to see why so many people decide to use such a big service, yet cannn we really trust what we are reading when anyone can edit the facts and manipulate the truth. I visited an article on the Gilmore Girls, which I found on the Wikipedia site itself. The following questions outline what i found by looking at one article amongst millions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilmore_girls


* Does it cover all the basic facts that you'd need to understand this topic?

This article does give a good overview of the series yet at times it is a bit of a spoiler. The article gives away too many secrets of the show that people want to discover while watching. The article doesn’t include enough if not any picture of the characters or actors themselves to show people what the characters look like. With this being the case, the language used in the article doesn’t describe the characters personalities in enough extent. The article also does not contain any quotes from actors or from the director and producer herself, Amy Sherman-Palladino. The following were a few things I noticed about the article;

-When discussing history of certain aspects of the show and its characters, it is not referenced or made note when in the series it occurs, for example season 4 episode 20.
-Also makes notes to happenings within the show that were not main events but a written as if they were.
-Lorelai in fact proposes to Luke in the final seconds of the last episode of season 5 and in the premiering 6th season he accepts.
- The relationships of lorelai section is not in chronological order which would make it hard for people unfamiliar with the entire show to understand who she was with first.

Is this article fair and balanced, or is it biased towards a particular side or argument?

This article is self promoting of the Gilmore girls itself and does not in fact promote it in any negative light. Perhaps this is because the person writing the article created it for fellow fanatics to read and for people interested in the show to gain a better knowledge.

What changes would you make to this article to improve it and make it useful for the wider Wikipedia community?

If I was to edit this piece I would place more photos and pictures to illustrate the show as it is about a show that people might want to view after reading the article so by having a picture or two people can see what it is they are looking for when they go to ezy dvd etc. I’d also place in text referencing to which season and episode the occurrence being mentioned was from so the relevant information is given for someone to revisit that time and place within the series.