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People who still hate on Wikipedia

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Flo_Rida_2016
Posts: 2804 - Karma: -5
after being fucked up and trying to change shit, i realized how legitimate wikipedia really is.

How fucking dumb, that in this day and age, there are still those who discredit the website. Its such a valuable resource for learning and brushing up on knowledge. Now, it might not be suitable for citation, but i personally find it ignorant for a person to question the legitimacy of general knowledge found on wikipedia.

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Feb 10 2010 4:58PM
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NW_Rider
Posts: 2580 - Karma: 314
Been using it for years for general info that doesn't need to be cited, and it has never done me wrong. Profs. just hate on it because they think it makes their students lazy.
Feb 10 2010 4:59PM
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GhostfaceKillah
Posts: 3398 - Karma: 10
if the page has credible sources and is verified, then it's legit.... but then again, everyone is entitled to their own knowledge over the internet, so you must tread lightly and take what you read with a grain of salt
Feb 10 2010 5:00PM
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Mr.Panda
Posts: 17711 - Karma: 564
When I look up something on Wikipedia let's say and find someone calling a pro fighter named Kazushi Sakuraba a muslim from Iran in the first two sentences it still needs some work.
Feb 10 2010 5:00PM
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soulskier
Posts: 17806 - Karma: 3,841
and even if its not legitimate enough for citations, they almost always have their sources listed at the bottom which has helped me out quite a bit
Feb 10 2010 5:00PM
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GhostfaceKillah
Posts: 3398 - Karma: 10
**everyone is entitled to their own facts
Feb 10 2010 5:01PM
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GratefulDead
Posts: 3554 - Karma: 84
you would want to kill every teacher at my school then.
Feb 10 2010 5:02PM
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feihlination
Posts: 8356 - Karma: 1,084
very true, people always act like "everyone can write that shit" blablabla. but i tried to edit the page of a german folk-show-presenter/singer and made him die during an alcohol and slut-orgy.

BOOM, 2 FUCKING hours later, the school ip was banned from wiki-edits and the page was correct again.
Feb 10 2010 7:07PM
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feihlination
Posts: 8356 - Karma: 1,084
well youre not allowed anyways, right?
Feb 10 2010 7:13PM
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gstaff
Posts: 1017 - Karma: 12
I use wiki for almost every one of my assignments and its money as shit.  Plus, like stated earlier, if you change something it will  usuallly be corrected like an hour later
Feb 10 2010 7:16PM
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speedy29
Posts: 868 - Karma: 10
My science teacher let us use it for the non scientific info for a research paper. It was awesome
Feb 10 2010 7:17PM
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