Technically you could cite a version in the version history. But Wikipedia isn’t about being right. It’s about trying to get It better
creed10@lemmy.world 8 months ago
my understanding from an English professor is less about its reliability of information, but more its reliability regarding citing sources. you can’t cite something that consistently changes
A2PKXG@feddit.de 8 months ago
rchive@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That might be one reason why some warned against using it, but I definitely had teachers in middle school and high school that explicitly said not to use it because it could be changed by anyone including people who could be wrong or lying.
creed10@lemmy.world 8 months ago
definitely not incorrect, for sure
zephyreks@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
It’s also just often completely inaccurate. The standards it uses to cite works make them pretty much useless: any good information on Wikipedia is on there by accident.
PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And the ability for folks to change it and provide inaccurate sources. It’s peer reviewed for the most part and academia wants officially peer reviewed sources.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The schools should have used wikipedia as an opportunity to teach media literacy. You don’t use wiki as your source, you go to the cited sources and investigate those. Use the cited sources a in your school reports.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Yet I see some teachers themselves using “Source: Google images” lmao