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I feel that Williams wants us to writing errors as "social constructs" because errors in writing are inevitable.  We need to accept that no piece of writing is going to be perfect.  There will always be someone sifting through writing and snuffing out the grammatical errors in it.  Within the realm of writing, I feel like he wants us to understand that these errors are acceptable.  After all, Williams admits that his writing actually has some errors within its lines.  I think that people view Wikipedia as error prone because, not everyone who uses posts and or edits that websites pages are not English scholars.  If we think about it, there are thousands upon thousands of people who can post/edit about a certain scientific fact, but when you get into the Encyclopedia, its information was put together by a few elite…but they are scholars, keep that in mind.  And see with Wikipedia, error and fault are allowed to happen.  With the Encyclopedia, I’m sure there are mistakes, but these are much more condemning.  I believe that Wikipedia goes under so much scrutiny because of how many uncredentialed users post on its site, even though the information is spot on correct.  Let’s say I knew how to teach or instruct our ENG 308j class, everyone would still feel much better if Matt taught it because he is more qualified.  I think Williams can help us answer this question.  Thousands of people trudge through Wikipedia and are looking for mistakes, I believe Williams states that “if we go looking for mistakes, we will find mistakes.”  No one wants to call into question the reliability of the Encyclopedia writers/creators.