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  2. Wikipedia:Academic use - Wikipedia

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    It is the goal of Wikipedia to become a research aid that all students can trust. If you, in the course of your research, find that there is misinformation on Wikipedia, look over the basic guidelines of Wikipedia and especially what the community considers a reliable source and please consider editing the article (and even creating an account ...

  3. Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is not so great - Wikipedia

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    Non-sensical articles. Wikipedia has a large number of articles which could be considered rather irrelevant for something billing itself as an encyclopedia, such as "teh" (a misspelling of the word "the"), List of films that most frequently use the word "fuck", Goatse (an Internet shock site), Toilets in Japan, and The Flowers of Romance ...

  4. Wikipedia:Student assignments - Wikipedia

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    Student assignments can help improve Wikipedia, but they can also cause the encyclopedia more harm than good when not directed properly. Volunteer editors are sometimes left with a mess and the burden of fixing poor-quality edits, cleaning up or reverting original research, merging content forks, and deleting articles.

  5. Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a Citable Source - Wikipedia

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    Research papers, particularly the one research paper students write in their eleventh grade, have always been an integral part of high school education [4].They stress the need to verify information and teach students how to evaluate sources critically, and as a result, teachers have developed various criteria to help students identify credible sources, an especially important skill in the ...

  6. Wikipedia:Academic bias - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is a place where we reflect the academic mainstream. If you don't like doing that, you won't like it here. Wikipedia is not about you and your personal views, and the sooner you learn it, the better. Wikipedia editors have the three rights stipulated at WP:FREE; for the rest, they work as servants. If you are not an editor in order to ...

  7. Wikipedia:Wikipedia in research - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia has been the center of a much heated and critical debate in academia pertaining to the relevance, accuracy, and effectiveness of using information found online in academic research, especially in places where information is constantly being created, revised, and deleted by people of various backgrounds, ranging from experts to curious learners.

  8. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is failing - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is not so great; Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is so great; Wikipedia is not failing – this essay sets out specifically to rebut the arguments presented in the essay, Wikipedia is failing. Wikipedia is a work in progress – it's not failing or succeeding, it's just not done yet; Wikipedia:Wikipedia may or may not be failing

  9. Wikipedia:Wikipedia in Schools - Wikipedia

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    But editing Wikipedia creates much greater value for much less effort, and as far as research and online editing is concerned, the first world student has the comparative advantage. Schools should encourage Wikipedia volunteering just as much as they promote the more "traditional" types of such work, and frankly, editing can be a far more ...