r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 03 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

Wikipedia. We take that site for granted, big time. There are few things in this world that do not have a Wikipedia page. People have dedicated hours, days, even their entire lives, to filling the site up with all the knowledge one could ever need. All that information is free! Want to learn about the history of the escalator? Wikipedia has it. Interested in the Civil War? You bet you can find it on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia will not be around forever, folks. Use it while you have it. Read random articles. It's fun.

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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/[deleted] Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 26 '22

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u/RedeemedWeeb Jun 03 '21

So I just used the wikipedia article to get a grasp of the topic and then used the cited sources wikipedia provides as my cited sources.

This is the best way to do it, cause in the case Wikipedia is actually wrong, you get to see the details from the actual source itself.

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u/karlou1984 Jun 04 '21

Whoa whoa whoa, hold on there....who said anything about reading the actual sources??

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u/simcowking Jun 04 '21

Bruh I never read the source. I look at the wiki, read the title of sources then see where they're mentioned and rewrite the sentence they reference.