Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.

MamboGator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• balthazarsnakewizard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hardly a loophole - Wikipedia’s greatest strength is as an aggregator of reliable information, and using Wikipedia’s sources is how people SHOULD use it. They just taught you how to use it.

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• WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes. That’s how you use an encyclopedia.

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• Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Big brain move: Tell your students about this neat loophole, gets them started on actual research.

  (Ideally - I’d be lying if I said I’ve never used a quote from Wikipedia citing the stated source without actually reading it [usually at 5 am for papers due in two hours], but more often than not Wikipedia was the signpost for the rabbit hole)

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