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Re: wikipedia

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:41 am
by pesgd
anureema wrote:Can Wikipedia now be considered a reliable source for academic work? People used to be borderline about Wikipedia, but now it has gained a fairly solid reputation of being reliable for sources of information. What do you think?


In college, my teachers would say "never use wikipedia", "it´s not reliable" etc... but that´s changing. I did a public examination recently in which one of the multiple-choice options was a Wikipedia entry. The English Wikipedia is awesome, in my view.