Wikipedia is definitely credible trust me bro they’re listening to unbiased UKRAINIAN propaganda instead of conniving Russian propaganda

    • buh [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      teacher: aNyOnE cAn eDiT it!

      me, naive: sure, but why would anyone just go on the internet and tell lies?

      anyone: :fedposting:

    • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Had a prof who loved wikipedia.

      But he was a science prof so that makes more sense. I think people who actually do legit research in those fields do the bulk of the article writing in those domains, and then the petty editors get in to fight over formatting.

      • Kaputnik [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah I had a prof explain how the Royal Society of Chemistry actually went through and wrote most of the related articles on Wikipedia so he'd actually accept it as a source

      • Omega_Haxors [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        The bullshit neoliberal politics barely ever touch the science side of the site. Still, fat L for them taking "ham sandwich" off the Energy Density page.

        EDIT: Oh that's funny, they actually went back and explained their reasoning for taking it off:

        This also explains some apparent anomalies, such as the energy density of a sandwich appearing to be higher than that of a stick of dynamite.

        That's right, you can't blow up a building with a ham sandwich, therefore the energy density is lower.

    • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Counter point: I had a professor at a UC school who used wikipedia as a source in his textbook. The course was transnational gangs and the professor was a retired orange county cop. Edit: the book