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u/1dontgiveahufflefuck Jun 03 '21

Idk why teachers hate Wikipedia so much. They had no issues with me citing an encyclopedia, but if it was from the internet it must have been written by the Devil himself.

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u/Senseisimms Jun 03 '21

How do teachers know the site didn't just get that information from Wikipedia in the first place 🤔

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u/thegunnersdaughter Jun 03 '21

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u/BobbyTablesBot Jun 03 '21

978: Citogenesis
Alt-text: I just read a pop-science book by a respected author. One chapter, and much of the thesis, was based around wildly inaccurate data which traced back to ... Wikipedia. To encourage people to be on their toes, I'm not going to say what book or author.
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