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Wikipedia is valuable for various reasons, among them the fact that it covers EVERYTHING, no matter how stupid or trivial. If you want to know something about a subject, wikipedia will almost always have some amount of information about the subject, and in my experience the more obscure subjects tend to be more accurate, because the only people who think about them at all are psychotic geeks. But yes, I'd cross-reference everything if I was writing a paper with it.
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Wikipedia 1 DinoDoc 0~ If Tehben spits eggs at you, jump on them and throw them back. ~ Eventis ~ Eventis Dungeons & Dragons 6th Age Campaign: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4: (Unspeakable) Horror on the Hill ~
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Wikipedia is great for quickly looking up something. Though for any serious research, I'd use real books. So much crap I find on the internet, I just cannot believe. I'd take wikipedia over a google search. Perhaps a google scholar search would yield better results, I don't know.
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Nothing beats being in an argument who links to a Wikipedia side which is just wrong.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok
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Originally posted by Ecthy
Those sexual organs aren't that enormous
Maybe enormous by European standards."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
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I use Wikipedia in research for papers (I just wrote a paper on novae and supernovae), but the most valuable part of Wikipedia for this purpose isn't the text, but Wikipedia's references. They're usually all first-class resources."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
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