Re: Mid-September, cold and rainy and a young mans thoughts turn to model trains and P-38's

Levent Suberk Wed Sep 27, 2023 1:18 pm

There is an article about Wiki:

https://apuedge.com/why-you-cannot-use-wikipedia-as-an-academic-source/

rsv1cox Wed Sep 27, 2023 2:08 pm

Levent Suberk wrote:There is an article about Wiki:

https://apuedge.com/why-you-cannot-use-wikipedia-as-an-academic-source/

So true.

Wiki is contributory it's updated by people like you and me. But it is checked.

Wikipedia[note 3] is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, collectively known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system called MediaWiki

Levent Suberk Wed Sep 27, 2023 3:28 pm

Hoax articles in Wiki are also interesting:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?stripprefix=1&title=Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia

Very Happy

rsv1cox Wed Sep 27, 2023 5:31 pm

Levent Suberk wrote:Hoax articles in Wiki are also interesting:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?stripprefix=1&title=Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia

Yes, there are villians among us. Sad

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