my understanding from an English professor is less about its reliability of information, but more its reliability regarding citing sources. you can’t cite something that consistently changes
That might be one reason why some warned against using it, but I definitely had teachers in middle school and high school that explicitly said not to use it because it could be changed by anyone including people who could be wrong or lying.
It’s also just often completely inaccurate. The standards it uses to cite works make them pretty much useless: any good information on Wikipedia is on there by accident.
That is wildly inaccurate and you know it. There are like 6.5 million articles on Wikipedia and the majority (since people are pedantic, we’ll say 50.1%) are well cited and accurate
my understanding from an English professor is less about its reliability of information, but more its reliability regarding citing sources. you can’t cite something that consistently changes
That might be one reason why some warned against using it, but I definitely had teachers in middle school and high school that explicitly said not to use it because it could be changed by anyone including people who could be wrong or lying.
Hmm, interesting. When I was in HS, I would paraphrase Wiki and use their citations in my bibliography 😆
It’s also just often completely inaccurate. The standards it uses to cite works make them pretty much useless: any good information on Wikipedia is on there by accident.
That is wildly inaccurate and you know it. There are like 6.5 million articles on Wikipedia and the majority (since people are pedantic, we’ll say 50.1%) are well cited and accurate
Technically you could cite a version in the version history. But Wikipedia isn’t about being right. It’s about trying to get It better