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The instinctual mistrust of Wikipedia that some people have because "anyone can edit it!" is sometimes valid but more often rooted in classism.
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@AppleAmps i told my history teacher that i was using wikipedia for my sources and she was like “no, don’t use that come on. use history.com or something.”
also she directly brought up the “anyone can edit it thing” and then boys in the class were like “yeah i thought about editing an article to ruin some kids project haha, just think about how funny that would be if they thought like abraham lincoln married his daughter or something haha” which is just like- do you want her to trust wikipedia or not? anyways i ended up explaining that to edit wikipedia you need an account as well as for that account to be approved, but i doubt it mattered much
ma’am, that’s the company that does the ancient aliens series, i do not trust them as a source.
also she directly brought up the “anyone can edit it thing” and then boys in the class were like “yeah i thought about editing an article to ruin some kids project haha, just think about how funny that would be if they thought like abraham lincoln married his daughter or something haha” which is just like- do you want her to trust wikipedia or not? anyways i ended up explaining that to edit wikipedia you need an account as well as for that account to be approved, but i doubt it mattered much
ma’am, that’s the company that does the ancient aliens series, i do not trust them as a source.
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@FawnOverFun @AppleAmps what this one would do is not cite wikipedia itself, but read the sources that the article cites and use those if they're legit
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