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Hope no one has a paper to write tomorrow...

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YoursAndMind
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Wikipedia is going down from midnight tonight until midnight tomorrow in protest piracy laws.


Jan 17 2012 11:00PM
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Zimmerman
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Who uses wikipedia for papers?
Jan 17 2012 11:01PM
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.AR6rider.
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Anyone who wants to finish a paper in under an hour on any subject and get an A.
Jan 17 2012 11:02PM
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Blake.P
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it can be a reliable background source. i dont take any information straight from there, but i use it as a reference point to take a general topic into more specifics. it is actually incredibly helpful for writing papers
Jan 17 2012 11:02PM
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Dock.Ellis
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Jan 17 2012 11:03PM
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YoursAndMind
Posts: 335 - Karma: 31
this.
Jan 17 2012 11:03PM
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Abc567def
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Yup. It has helped me get through Uni
Jan 17 2012 11:05PM
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oil.
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hahaha i actually do have 6 papers out of a paper to write, but you can just use the cache'd version of the wikipedia pages just fine
Jan 17 2012 11:12PM
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marsh.
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schools let you use wikipedia? at my school you cant because anyone can edit any page
Jan 17 2012 11:13PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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all the teachers say that and think they're badass cause they know about the internet but there's a ton of people whose job it is to look for stuff and fix it. plus, anybody who wants to go edit it for the lulz doesn't go in and be like "hehehe, i'm gonna change the last digit in plancks constant to a 2" they're more like, "hehehe, i' gonna change the capital of the U.S. to Fart DC". And you should probably be able to see thats wrong.
Jan 17 2012 11:19PM
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EastCoast315
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why isn't NS doing this?
Jan 17 2012 11:19PM
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.AR6rider.
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Silly marsh, you don't cite Wikipedia. You take the information that you used in your paper, find the citation for it at the bottom of the Wiki page, go to that site/article/whatever, and cite that!
Jan 17 2012 11:20PM
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Jthoms
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I wrote a paper on johannes kepler, used wikipedia as my main source and got a 100. I didnt cite wikipedia of course but not all the info sucks
Jan 17 2012 11:22PM
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KravtZ
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exactly bro....the citations at the bottom of wikipedia are amazing for papers. So much sources which lead to countless of amazing other sources. Though the best is definatly those school research databases
Jan 17 2012 11:23PM
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Plus, the changes you make if you are not a credible user must first be accepted by a mod. Seriously people, wikipedia is extremely reliable source and still has a bad rep because the rules for posting changes and the monitoring of changes was a lot more lax. Plus, when a change is made, it shows up on the page... Im so sick of people saying that wikipedia is not a valid source for information and bringing up irrelevant points that havent been a factor for five or so years. /rant
Jan 17 2012 11:25PM
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SkiThe603
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word no papers
Jan 17 2012 11:31PM
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Davy.Crockett
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seriously. wikipedia isn't the most accurate, but if you already know some about the subject, and just want a basic overview, its perfect.
Jan 17 2012 11:32PM
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Stose
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i thought that SOPA got cancled yesterday
Jan 17 2012 11:33PM
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