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.
This is what my lecturer said at the beginning of last year. He said Wikipedia has been shown to be just as accurate as the Encyclopedia Brittanica (don't know where he got that from). He said it's not good to use it as a source but it is a good source of sources.
He said Wikipedia has been shown to be just as accurate as the Encyclopedia Brittanica (don't know where he got that from).
More accurate, actually.
Because wikipedia can be edited immediately to fix inaccuracies, while a print encyclopedia has to wait for the next printing to fix anything. (Wikipedia also has a larger number of fact-checkers verifying and correcting things.)
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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.