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#1 2010-11-27 20:02:01
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#2 2010-11-27 20:03:30
- GlitchSprite
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Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
Yes
I copied and pasted articles from there to write my sixth grade assessment paper
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#4 2010-11-27 20:04:27
- militarydudes
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Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
Yes, but it depends on the topic.
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#5 2010-11-27 20:05:20
- MasterOfDeception
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Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
YESYESYESYES!! I love wikipedia!
I just have to convice my mom...
"My Language Arts teacher beat Chuck Norris up." -12three
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#6 2010-11-27 20:08:03
Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
rufflebee wrote:
Nope
Probably because I enjoy adding false information to random pages, therefore making them unreliable
Unless you call my imagination reliable
I used to do that to the pokemon wiki. (I hate pokemon)
militarydudes wrote:
Yes, but it depends on the topic.
Which ones would you not trust?
GlitchSprite wrote:
Yes
I copied and pasted articles from there to write my sixth grade assessment paper
Was that allowed?
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#7 2010-11-27 20:08:11
Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
Depends on what the topic is, but usually Yes.
Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, Closer To God, The Downward Spiral, Further Down The Spiral, The Perfect Drug, The Fragile, And All That Could Have Been, With Teeth, Year Zero, Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D, Ghosts I-IV, The Slip, Pretty Hate Machine 2010
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#8 2010-11-27 20:09:20
- MasterOfDeception
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Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
majormax wrote:
I used to do that to the pokemon wiki. (I hate pokemon)
HOW DARE YOU!?!?!
"My Language Arts teacher beat Chuck Norris up." -12three
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#10 2010-11-27 20:09:31
- GlitchSprite
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Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
majormax wrote:
GlitchSprite wrote:
Yes
I copied and pasted articles from there to write my sixth grade assessment paperWas that allowed?
Who cares
I passed with good comments
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#11 2010-11-27 20:14:11
- militarydudes
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Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
majormax wrote:
militarydudes wrote:
Yes, but it depends on the topic.
Which ones would you not trust?
Usually ones that are political or religious. It depends on how bias they look, and how much info they give out on each view of the subject. Most of the time they're pretty reliable, but many a time I'll find a topic that seems to praise one thing or another, rather than give out the information without any input or opinion by the author.
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#14 2010-11-27 20:26:24
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Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
Yes. Wikipedia is always the first place I go to to look up something (even before Google!).
Yawn.
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#15 2010-11-27 20:30:26
- littletonkslover
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Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
Yes
I mean whoever writes that much about onigiri seriously would run out of lies to post
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#16 2010-11-27 20:39:01
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Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
Nope. Anyone can edit it, and sometimes, it isn't edited back to it's correct state. No teachers trust it, and neither do i.
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#17 2010-11-27 20:41:22
- Survivorduck
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Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
I once edited an article to say that ducks were 5 ft tall, and they LOVED eating humans. :3
So no, not really...
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#18 2010-11-27 20:47:16
Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
I usually do, since the community is good with keeping the content accurate. I usually use other sources though, for additional information as well as to corroborate Wikipedia's information. But I don't use it for reports, just for looking up stuff I'm interested in.
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#19 2010-11-27 20:53:42
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Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
Survivorduck wrote:
I once edited an article to say that ducks were 5 ft tall, and they LOVED eating humans. :3
So no, not really...
some are
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#20 2010-11-27 20:55:05
Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
I usually do. Here's why:
1. You can tell if information is fake.
2. Nobody really edits it to put in fake information.
3. It's called wikipedia... that's a pretty cool name. 
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#21 2010-11-27 20:56:19
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12three wrote:
I usually do. Here's why:
1. You can tell if information is fake.
2. Nobody really edits it to put in fake information.
3. It's called wikipedia... that's a pretty cool name.
So if there was something that had a cool name that was fake you would think it was real?
And a lot of people edits it to put in fake information.
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#22 2010-11-27 20:59:57
Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
kimmy123 wrote:
12three wrote:
I usually do. Here's why:
1. You can tell if information is fake.
2. Nobody really edits it to put in fake information.
3. It's called wikipedia... that's a pretty cool name.So if there was something that had a cool name that was fake you would think it was real?
And a lot of people edits it to put in fake information.
Actually I just added the last one because I wanted to get three reasons in there.
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#24 2010-11-27 22:36:01
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Yeah, i copied and pasted my whole report and my teacher (Who is awesome BTW , he lets us sit on couches in class) didn't call me in for it. FYI my report was on Peanut Butter
Excuse me for dropping off the face of the planet.....
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#25 2010-11-28 07:17:34
Re: Poll: Do you trust Wikipedia for info?
kimmy123 wrote:
I just edited a wiki page and added a random link xD
Which one? xD
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