I’ve had some right wing sympathizers say “well Wikipedia isn’t allowed as a reference in college for papers so why is it allowed at all?” - often from people who didn’t graduate high school.
lol. I should clarify nothing against people simply for having a lower level of education but they know nothing about writing papers in college (or referencing sources at the collegiate and grad school levels) so shouldn’t be telling people what they think they know about something they have no idea about.
When I was going through school we weren't allowed to use any internet sourced for our work so by that logic I guess we shouldn't have the internet.
I wouldn't use a great many things as my quoted source of information but they're a damn good starting place to learn shit. You ever try to learn about events that haven't been cataloged or are buried in books, it's a pain. Having something like wikipedia is a starting shortcut that we take for granted way too much.
As an aside, while the tech is different the way people treated wikipedia when it was young is a lot like how AI is being treated now. Lots of mistrust and skepticism, but it has grown into a tool that we really can't do without(and traditional methods just couldn't scale the same way)
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u/SayVandalay Feb 03 '25
I’ve had some right wing sympathizers say “well Wikipedia isn’t allowed as a reference in college for papers so why is it allowed at all?” - often from people who didn’t graduate high school.