DONE!!!!!! Yahoo Answers, Minti, Wiki-How

So I decided to explore the reference sites to see how they worked.  Minti was nice in that it was geared towards parents so it really was targeting a specific audience with specific concerns.  The one I liked best was Wiki-How, it did an excellent job laying out a variety of topics and it was for the most presented in a professional and easy to follow format.  I don’t know if I would ever recommend Yahoo Answers or Minti to patrons to use though for two reasons.  First for every interesting question and reason response there are about ten that are just really out there.  Second most of the responses are little more than opinionated posts, with little to no indication of where they got their answers from.  True some of the exceptional posts do a good job explaining their sources or directing others to information sites or organizations for additional information.  I’m not saying these sites (Yahoo Answers and Minti) aren’t valuable, it’s just they strike me more as social networking sites than places for concrete answers.  I do believe that we can take the concepts these sites explore though and modify them to meet patrons needs and provide them with credible information sources to their questions.