#wikipedia
Teachers: Wikipedia is very unreliable *Hands out 25 year old textbooks instead*
Alrighty guys ,gals, and other genders and lack thereof I’m gonna teach ya a thing.
A lot of teachers will go on about not using wikipedia as a source.
“It’s bad,” they say. “I will deduct points if you do it.”
Well wikipedia is actually a great source of information and fuck what your teacher said, you absolutely can use it.
The key though is knowing
A.How to use it.
B. How to source it.
and
C. whether it is good info or trash.
NowFirst Lets look up something on wikipedia. Say your writing a paper on Gregor Mendel and Mendelian Inheritance.
So you zoom over to the Wikipedia page on Mendelian Inheritance.
Now there is a lot of information here. Not all of it is strictly necessary for that essay you are writing. So you read through and suddenly you see something that is good info for your essay.
Boy oh boy this information is useful. To bad your teacher said No Wikipedia Ever.
However there is a loophole.
It’s right there.
No. Go closer.
You see that little four? Its a citation number. Think of wikipedia as it’s own essay. It got it’s information from other sources out there. Just like you are trying to right now. And since there is a citation, it’s going to be listed at the end of the wikipedia article.
Look at citation number 4
Look at that you have your first citation. From Wikipedia.
And look. Do you see it. There is a link. It’s the blue words with the boxy arrow thingamajig.
That thing. Click it.
Why did you leave wikipedia you ask? Wikipedia is great. You have several sources from there. But There is more than what the put in to that wiki article. Those sources Wikipedia gave you are helpful. And now that you are at the source, you can utilize it.
But what if its a book that’s the source.
You can either head to your local library and see if they have it, order it, or avoid the book source. Online sources are just as valuable.
Also do not quote directly from the wikipedia. Quote from the source and then use quote citation.
And MLA citation. Use MLA citation. Since you are linked to the sources cite them. Not the wikipedia.
Your teacher will never know. And now you can finish that sweet essay you got planned.
You’re on your way to greatness.
For anybody not aware you can abuse the absolute fuck out of Wikipedia for any papers!
I’m an academic librarian and I 100% endorse this post
I am also an academic librarian and I 100% endorse this post. CITATIONS are important.
What if when we were born we were each assigned a Wikipedia page like a social security number would that be fucked up or what
do you mean a wikipedia page aboutus? or do you mean some baby is arbitrarily given the rights and responsibilities to update the paramecium article?
ok I did mean a Wikipedia page about us. But keep talking I like where you’re headed
What’s your government-assigned Wikipedia page? (No rerolls. I am in charge of “1929 in Wales” now. Not a great year, some bad floods in November.)
WHAT THE FUCK HOW DID YOU DO THAT
Get Some Sleep, a New Zealand song.
But yeah mood. Lol
Man… Getting overwhelmed by the fact that the Wikipedia entry for ABBA says “ABBA are a Swedish pop group” instead of “ABBA were a Swedish pop group”
I have Many Feelings
The Horizon, a Wikipedia poem inspired by @headspace-hotel
What if when we were born we were each assigned a Wikipedia page like a social security number would that be fucked up or what
do you mean a wikipedia page aboutus? or do you mean some baby is arbitrarily given the rights and responsibilities to update the paramecium article?
ok I did mean a Wikipedia page about us. But keep talking I like where you’re headed
What’s your government-assigned Wikipedia page? (No rerolls. I am in charge of “1929 in Wales” now. Not a great year, some bad floods in November.)
‘98 Darts World Championship. Only 4 countries competing, and all 8 of the top ranked players were English. Not exactly a “world” game
Khingila the First. Founding king of Hunnic Alkhan Dynasty. Seems like a cool guy with ego so inflated it spans the Eurasian steppe, but eh can’t do worse than Genghis Khan amirite?
“Asteroid,” poem assembled from quotations from Wikipedia articles
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Thebest Wikipedia lists
List of inventors killed by their own inventions
List of scandals with the -gate suffix
Response to sneezing - that is, what you say after someone sneezes
List of places in the U.S. named after places elsewhere
List of American advertising characters (e.g. the geico gecko. There is also an article for breakfast cereal mascots specifically.)
List of superlative trees - its TREE APPRECIATION TIME
List of individual birds. There is SO much going on here.
List of deep-fried foods (aaaaaaa)
List of words that are their own antonyms
List of genres(of…everything)
List of onomatopoeias - READ THIS PLEASE
List of people who have been pied
List of voids - This is meant in the astronomy sense but I think the name is funny.
List of discredited substances - there’s a LOT going on here
List of methods of capital punishment
List of wartime cross-dressers
List of extinct dog breeds. this topic contains some of my favorite obscure facts
List of songs considered to be the worst - there is also an article about the worst books and one about the worst movies, if you’re interested
List of sexually active popes - I just think it’s funny that this is an article
List of reportedly haunted locations
List of animals with fraudulent diplomas
List of people who died on the toilet
the onomatopoeias
What if when we were born we were each assigned a Wikipedia page like a social security number would that be fucked up or what
do you mean a wikipedia page aboutus? or do you mean some baby is arbitrarily given the rights and responsibilities to update the paramecium article?
ok I did mean a Wikipedia page about us. But keep talking I like where you’re headed
What’s your government-assigned Wikipedia page? (No rerolls. I am in charge of “1929 in Wales” now. Not a great year, some bad floods in November.)
Mühlenteich
a lake in Wismar, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.