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Wikipedia Question | by carthax | 2005-03-16 15:06:23 |
| Not unless it was somehow relevant |
by Dazed |
2005-03-16 15:19:25 |
(ie, I was doing a report on Wikipedia or such phenomena)
Why not? Because I wouldn't cite from Encyclopoedia Britannica either. There's a great deal of difference between a reference book/website (like Wiki and Britannica) and a *scholarly* reference book (which is written by one scholar and reviewed by usually at least three other experts in the field before being printed). SRB's are also usually focused, making them better detailed sources. They also list their sources of information (which is why one generally goes to a SRB in the first place - to find the key works in a field while getting a feel for the general ideas applicable to a particular topic) to a much greater extent than the other types of reference works I mentioned.
Finally, I wouldn't cite anything online if I can help it since websites change all the time and many of the authors cannot be verified. That said, I did use the net for my sport history paper, among others, (for primary sources from TSN, CBC Sports, etc) but it was certainly not my only source - quite far from that, actually. |
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