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Brought to you by the same people that told you not to believe everything you read on the internet and now only read click bait headlines from Fox or Breitbart (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 30 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Wikipedia still isn't a reliable source, you have to locate the point of your argument and then find the listed source in the citations on the Wikipedia page.

Wikipedia is a great place to find sources, but not as a soruce.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago

    For stuff that really matters, absolutely. Get your basic overview, get your sources, and then find an actual expert.

    For 95/100 daily searches? Wikipedia is fine. I don't need peer review for "why is this city named what it's named?"

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    This drove me mad growing up.

    Encyclopedia (classroom copy, dated 1983): rarely updated or vetted by outside sources, perfect, basically the second word of god

    Online encyclopedia: heresy and lies, you can't trust it, do your own research

    Me: "this seems fucking moronic"

    I got around this rule in school by just using the sources that Wikipedia pages used, and got full marks for it, even though I did the exact thing that they said can't be trusted. But the fact that if you publish an encyclopedia, it's gospel, but if you print it out, it's trash, just enrages me.

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