College: Wikipedia Not Source For Papers


	College: Wikipedia Not Source For Papers

Sorgalim

2-13-2007 5:11 PM

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students, no longer allowed, school, history, department, research

Sorgalim says:

Is good to know...

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2-13-2007 6:06 PM

DizzyDezzi

Ummm...Duh! Wiki is fun to read, but I have found a lot of inaccuracies there. Definitely ONLY good to fill a long bibliography, but not as a main source.

2-13-2007 6:14 PM

maedko

i use wikipedia as a base source to find other sources. it works great.

2-13-2007 6:18 PM

Sorgalim

Thanks for let us know...

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