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Wikipedia...better then you think
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Apperently Wiki isnt that bad for referencing.
According to a british study, for every 3 mistakes found in Encyclopaedia Britanica, Wiki have 4.
Maybe someday it will be a legit reference for people.
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i use it all of the time
i love Wiki
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i use it all the time to, and ive run across a couple history teachers who actually recoment using it because it tends to be so accurate.
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humm, good thing i dont use it then
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good thing i wrote a whole essay on alcoholism using wikipedia and what i know
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wiki is sick. its so good for shit to look up. but any asshole can change something. ive actually gone in and changed a couple of things but i got caught so enough of that.
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Wiki has saved my ass many a time
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i just added mike jones' number to the page and they deleted the article for personal information
281-330-8004
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haha where did you get that??
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what the number?
it's in like all his songs, but it doesn't work anymore
it used to take you to his voicemail
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haha wiki is sick.. it has everything.. i discovered that daryl hall from hall and oats went to my high school using wiki haha
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and it has most definitely saved me many a time for school..
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Ive used it many a times. A lot of the time ill cut and paste the shit, then spend some time rearranging the info and putting it into my own words.
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wikipedia made my high school!!
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Wiki saved me from the dark side!
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my university and apparently a bunch of others wont accept essays if you used wikipedia as a reference. because its not a scholarly source and peer reviewed or edited.
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i used it as a reference on an english research paper and my teacher didnt care at all...
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i found out about ns thanks to wiki
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But its a good starting point to get you a rought overview of your subject. Thats how I use it.
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sometimes when I'm really bored I just click "random article"
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people always tell me not to use wiki, but it seems pretty legit for what I'm looking up (history usually). I declaire that wiki is the shit.
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its sometimes better than google if your looking for info
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I use it all the time. just dont use it as a reference because teachers get pissed
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wikipedia.. yeah i use it for research alot.
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i look up random things when im bored. I looked up condoms the other day, and under "other uses" it said "condoms make great party balloons if you inflate them" I giggled quite a bit
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My english teacher last year let us use it, as most of the info on writers, books and films was pretty much correct. Its amazing that a system like that works, and I can spend hours on there just bouncing around.
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he says it in almost every one of his songs
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it surprisingly has alot of helpful chemistry stuff
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i use it all the time, if my professor tells me not to use it i usually just site a different website
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its kind of sketchy that you can edit all the entries though...
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^ Naw not really because who would be that evil to do that? Muahhahahahahahahah!
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I use it all the time, and not only for school research...
one time I even printed the page and read everything for an oral..and it worked, though i was in spanish class with a dumb teacher..
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i use it all the time. my science teacher who was a complete hard ass let me use it all the time.
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i love wiki so easy and helpful to use for reserach
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wikipedia sucks
new tags rock
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if by sucks you mean rules, then yea i guess it does
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good information on the moon for sure, i got 92 on the project i did/copy and pasted...
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Haha, dosen't surprise me actually.
So many NS e-fights involving scientific or religious stuff comes right off of there....it's funny.
And....for "scholary" stuff. Google Scholar is a good one.
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Does the study distinguish what exactly qualifies as a "mistake." I mean, are we talking about grammatical errors or large passages of unverifiable (and unsighted) information? Not to knock Wiki (I contribute to them regularly), but it's nowhere near comparable to actual scholarly work. I will note that modern incarnations of Britannica are a joke compared to the older stuff. It's like comparing a highschool paper to a graduate thesis. These days they tend to go to much shorter lengths to compile and record information.
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wikipedia really does rule, it has such a broad spectrum of information.
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Hmmm...but does Encyclopedia Britannica have an article on newschool skiing...or the Wu-Tang clan?
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wikipedia was my main source for papers for the last two years of HS
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wikipedia is the most UNRECOMMENDED sources by our teachers because you can edit any of the info...but they change it...so it doesnt matter
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It has EVERYTHING. I searched my town (100,000 people) and it had pages of info on it. Who has this much time on their hands?
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i used wiki for my whole history research paper and got a B+ so whatev
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