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  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  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:Wikipedia is not a reliable source - Wikipedia

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    An exception to this is when Wikipedia is being discussed in an article, which may cite an article, guideline, discussion, statistic or other content from Wikipedia or a sister project as a primary source to support a statement about Wikipedia (while avoiding undue emphasis on Wikipedia's role or views and inappropriate self-referencing).

  7. Wikipedia:Wikipedia in Schools - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is only improved by the efforts of literate people around the world, and this is where schools are an incredible resource. Students in high school and university, perhaps even middle school, already spend innumerable hours researching and writing papers that will only be read by a few people before being forgotten.

  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:Reliable sources - Wikipedia

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    For example, a paper reviewing existing research, a review article, monograph, or textbook is often better than a primary research paper. When relying on primary sources, extreme caution is advised. Wikipedians should never interpret the content of primary sources for themselves (see Wikipedia:No original research and Wikipedia:Neutral point of ...