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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern
You're the one making that leap of logic from my statement that I tell my students not to cite Wikipedia.
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You SAID "I teach at the college level and I tell my students that Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information for citing or quoting." I guess that technically could mean that you don't explicitly tell them NOT to cite it, you just take points off if they do, which is also bad teaching. Or perhaps you tell them it's not reliable but let them do it anyway without penalty? I'm not sure that's much better.
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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern
Wikipedia is never a credible source of information for writing academic papers because we don't know the expertise of the persons writing the entry and it is not easily traceable where certain information in Wikipedia comes from.
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See my previous post for a refutation of this.
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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern
In addition, one generally doesn't cite a general encyclopedia (which Wikipedia is) for academic writing whether it is printed or not.
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It depends on the writing, but I take your point. Nevertheless you seem to believe that Wikipedia is less credible than *other* general encylcopedias, which is what I dispute.
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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern
By the way, if I'm part of the problem, what "problem" would this be?
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The problem of a bad and broken education system.
I don't mean to single you out specifically; many of your fellow educators share the same distrust of Wikipedia, and you personally may be an excellent professor otherwise.