Wikipedia ban in College Papers in Vermont University

[UHMEEEEBA]

[00:41] <Neon_Tiger> Wikipedia is crap for any information.
[00:41] <Neon_Tiger> You can't use it in college papers for that reason.
[00:42] <Jesuszilla> orly
[00:42] <Neon_Tiger> YA RLY
[00:43] <Jesuszilla> not rly. ;(
[00:43] <Neon_Tiger> YA RLY
[00:43] <Jesuszilla> rly
[00:43] <Neon_Tiger> SRSLY
[00:43] <Jesuszilla> no rlt
[00:43] <Jesuszilla> *rly
[00:43] <Neon_Tiger> YA RLY
[00:44] <Vans> QUTD
[00:44] <Jesuszilla> stl not rly
[00:44] <Vans> yes so rly
[00:44] <Neon_Tiger> RLY at my college anyways, and quite a few others.
[00:44] <Jesuszilla> not rly
[00:44] <Neon_Tiger> It's just not relaible for information as anyone can edit it, and unsource things.

OH SNAP.

Seriously though, I figured my college was just getting in ahead of the game and it now looks that way.

See also (for irony's sake, Wikipedia's own pages on how it sucks): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seigenthaler_Sr._Wikipedia_biography_controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia#Use_of_dubious_sources

Now if you learned anything, you can't use those in your reports got it?

And oh yes, I did back up my old #badassSTUFF logs.

[Jesuszilla]

So in other words you can use it, but you have to bust your butt finding the correct source citation?

[UHMEEEEBA]

Yup, in other words it isn't worth the time when you could have got the citation directly.

Edit: Also, as more colleges start to do this, I imagine High Schools will likely follow suite as they often like to portray themselves as mini-colleges.

[Fusion]

See, here's the trick.


Don't cite Wikipedia itself as the damn source.  Cite the sites that Wikipedia cites as the sources.  Know why?  Because that's the great thing about it: Saves you a TON of effort and you can potentially just copy the Wikipedia article and turn it in to get a %100 grade.