Posted on 02/13/2007 12:56:34 PM PST by EveningStar
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - Middlebury College history students are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers...
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You can use it. Just don't cite it as a source.
It says that in the second paragraph. :)
thats ok, because according to wikipedia, Middlebury College does not exist.
Wiki gives refernces. Use wiki for research and the references once the info is good to use.
I use Wikipedia all the time. But then, I'm not writing research papers. :)
When were you ever allowed to use an encyclopedia as a primary source?
When I was in college, I was allowed to use *real* encyclopedias as primary sources.
Same here, but I keep in mind its leftist slant. I've actually gone in and edited articles two or three times, just to find the corrected language I added was later changed back to left wing propaganda.
I find Wikipedia very useful, and almost always reasonably accurate.
Because of the way it is put together, you cannot trust anything it says without some sort of skeptical cross check or previous knowledge of the subject. But the same thing is true of the Encylopedia Brittanica or any history book, or the daily newspapers. Very few sources are entirely trustworthy.
Yes. I have noticed a leftist slant in some articles and I do keep that in mind.
Then again many research libraries have documents by "Jayson Blair" or similar questionable sources that really need to be scrutinized before citation.
Me too.
That ought to be obvious. On the other hand, Wikipedia is a good place to find links to original source material that *could* be cited.
I use it every day.
Indeed. The less political a topic, the more you can trust Wikipedia. (For math questions, it's super.)
Wikipedia is not an authoritative source on anything because anyone can go into it and edit its entries. And no one checks its information for accuracy. It may be an interesting site to visit while surfing the web, but it can't be considered a legitimate reference work.
that is hucking fillarious that wikipedia was accepted in the first place. What morans! /h
This is news? I would probably flunk any student outside of middle school who tried citing any encyclopedia in a research paper.
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