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Originally Posted by panickedthumb  I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that, even though most people won't accept wikipedia as a resouce, the source list at the bottom of each article is priceless! You can get sources from the wikipedia articles. It's always my first stop for information, and frequently I never have to go any farther than the source list. |
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all pages cite their references -- and that is what personally bothers me. I hate going to wikipedia because i'm afraid to trust it. i hate not knowing who wrote the information and what type of education they really have in that subject. so every time i need info on a subject, i google it instead. but the first result is usually a wikipedia article so i usually end up there anyways
i read a good quote about wikipedia somewhere (dont remember who said it either) but it went something like:
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usually good ideas work in theory but may not in practice. wikipedia is the opposite. In theory, it would never work, but in practice it just does!
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