Re: [DIYbio] OFF-TOPIC: taboo on using Wikipedia (school settings)

There is no alternative to first had examination of original papers.Wiki can create awareness not well researched contents.You can take help from wiki to get a crude picture of all contents.many articles hide the truth or written to propagate the glory of individuals.Editing from experts is not free and common statements are biased and promotes one sided view in the world of entropic knowledge.

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On 31-Jul-2013, at 7:44 AM, Avery louie <inactive.e@gmail.com> wrote:

Wikipedia is good for big concepts, but for more informed responses I prefer yahoo answers.


More seriously, I think profs might want you to learn how to use other media/searches, or just want to have you suffer through what they had to do.  Not everything is on the wiki...

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On Jul 30, 2013 9:01 PM, "vrgopal" <vrgopal@gmail.com> wrote:
All info in Wikipedia is not reliable and well researched.Subjectivity is high in the contents.

V.Rajagopalan
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On 31-Jul-2013, at 6:26 AM, Jeswin <phillyj101@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was reading the commentary article "We Must Face the Threats" in J Neuro [1] and noticed that they cite Wikipedia. Now, I realize that this isn't a regular journal article but teachers and professors seem to treat Wikipedia as absolutely verboten. If an article in a journal can cite Wikipedia, then why can't it be used as a source in informal assignments like homeworks. A research paper would require harder stuff but in my experience thus far, Wikipedia is shunned by instructors.
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> [1]http://www.jneurosci.org/content/29/37/11417.full.pdf
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