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The funny irony is that for years and years universities would as a policy not accept wikipedia as a reference. I think the thinking was that a published book w
by tomlockwood 1y ago
The funny irony is that for years and years universities would as a policy not accept wikipedia as a reference. I think the thinking was that a published book was more likely to have been written by an expert in the field. Now, even that is less and less likely.
- phatskat 1y agoWhen I was in school it was the same, don’t cite Wikipedia. But we were encouraged to use Wikipedia and follow the citations and dig deeper