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Jun 17, 2018
5:12:44pm

vagabonder Contributor

It's kind of ironic that fans of a school with more opening than demand are

mocking a school with so much demand that they built two extra schools and a satellite program to try to deal with it.

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vagabonder

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Author

Time

So I think some yewt edited the wikipedia page on the Holy War

Zoobieman

6/17/18 4:58pm

What's wrong with that?

Wingnut

6/17/18 5:01pm

Should be BYU-Utah to be consistent with BYU-Hawaii and BYU-Idaho

Dread Pirate Westley

6/17/18 5:07pm

Seriously.

Bert609

6/17/18 6:01pm

I never considered that before. Makes sense. I guess I could get used to that

bluelands

6/17/18 8:30pm

but there's also a BYU-SL center

warp

6/18/18 11:52am

Isn't that a part of BYU-Utah?

Dread Pirate Westley

6/18/18 11:55am

I'm guessing you are a troll?

Zoobieman

6/17/18 5:08pm

I think I was able to undo all of the changes. Let me know if you see any more.

Ute in DC

6/17/18 5:09pm

Can anyone really just go in and make changes?

CougarWildcat

6/17/18 6:03pm

That's what Wikipedia is.

Zman

6/17/18 6:16pm

That's why professors hate Wikipedia and will penalize any student

eddog

6/17/18 6:31pm

That is probably why they are professors and not in a high paying profession

6/17/18 7:54pm

When Wikipedia lists sources it can be a really good cheat

Cashmeousside

6/17/18 8:03pm

That's what I frequently did when I was in school.

eddog

6/17/18 8:14pm

Academia can be very out of touch at a time.

TheWanderer

6/17/18 8:08pm

I agree. I love wikipedia.

eddog

6/17/18 8:18pm

Thanks for the knock on my career. I will absolutely penalize any student

TailgateU

6/18/18 8:52am

How or other publications more "verified"?

CosmoK

6/18/18 1:57pm

I'm not just worried about verifiability. For my class, students can use company

TailgateU

6/18/18 3:37pm

Are you serious? So let's have our professors allow information that is not peer

UNHuskerCoug

6/18/18 9:31am

Isn't the entire Wikipedia model, excessive peer review?

Juncker

6/18/18 10:24am

Academic peer review is an organized process. Wikipedia is not.

TailgateU

6/18/18 11:47am

There is peer review and then there is Wikipedia. The former is performed by

UNHuskerCoug

6/18/18 11:50am

And yet, if you went through most Wikipedia articles you'd find just as few

Juncker

6/18/18 12:39pm

Not all of us are anti

6/17/18 8:54pm

which is exactly why I'd go to wikipedia, use the information in it and then

powerbait

6/18/18 8:54am

Wrong. That's not why.

yakkamole

6/18/18 12:03pm

Yes, it's low hanging fruit. But then again, there's nothing new under the sun.

Juncker

6/18/18 12:43pm

College assignments, yes, actual research, no.

yakkamole

6/18/18 1:52pm

Fair enough. Scientific fields would be the exception here. That's a valid point

Juncker

6/18/18 6:24pm

If nothing new is found, then we waste a lot of money doing research around the

TailgateU

6/19/18 7:10am

Michael Scott said it best.

davidmj10

6/17/18 9:43pm

I doubt it was a UTah fan the would have changed it from BYU to TDS

kolt7

6/17/18 9:53pm

It's kind of ironic that fans of a school with more opening than demand are

vagabonder

6/17/18 5:12pm

oh yes. that is very ironic.

BlueFrog

6/17/18 5:17pm

There is Utah-Ogden, Utah-Logan, and Utah-Orem, though.

CosmoK

6/18/18 1:58pm

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