I agree. I love wikipedia.

Jun 17, 2018
8:18:17pm

eddog All-American

Professors just don't consider it to be a scholarly, professional source because any Joe Schmo can go in and edit the content for any given article. That's why you use the Wikipedia bibliographies as your cheat sheet as others have pointed out.

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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

bluecougar1985

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

wiscougarfan

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.

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