• TurtlePower@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    while it’s generally taboo to cite Wikipedia directly, you can cite the same pages Wikipedia does as an easy work around.

    Yup! Back in my college days, my English professor said we could use Wikipedia, but we had to trace sources all the way back to their origin, preferably a physical publication if possible. Meaning if Wikipedia cited a source that cited another source, you had to cite that source. That’s just how academia works!

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      1 year ago

      Sorry that’s not how academia works. Your prof may have given you that proviso but that’s not standard operating procedure for scientific study. Think about it, then we’d all be citing the same 10 papers forever.