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• teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m asking since i was wondering what they meant by it. Have seen the word but never bothered to look it up, and instead of infering the meaning I asked.

  Don’t use Wikipedia as a source if you want to come off as serious. Thats like, middle school level knowledge, at least in our schools. You still haven’t told me, and I guess that i’ll find several definitions, cause that’s usually how it goes.

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  • Imhotep@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Don’t use Wikipedia as a source if you want to come off as serious. Thats like, middle school level knowledge, at least in our schools.

    I was spot on.

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    • teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      About being condescending? Yes, you are. You showed what level you’re on by sending a Wikipedia link.

      You’re like one of those troglodytes that answer a question with a lmgtfy-link unsarcastically.

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      • nomy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Says the person who’s been here for two years and doesn’t know what a Tankie is.

        You should be clicking those lmgtfy links btw.

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  • ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wikipedia is probably the most trustworthy source around. It can be wrong so you should still verify it if you want to be sure. But, I don’t think there’s another site with a large amount of knowledge that is so consistently accurate.

    What you should have learned from school is that you don’t cite it in your papers, because it’s not the original source for anything. But, you definitely should be using it for your research and using it’s citations to go deeper.

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    • teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wikipedia is probably the most trustworthy source around. It can be wrong so you should still verify it if you want to be sure.

      Absolutely disagree on it being a trustworthy source, it is a collection of links to potential sources. I’m trying to verify by asking, but instead i get some lecture about how sources work. I still haven’t gotten an answer other than a Wikipedia-link, which isn’t a source. If i wanted to i could go in to the page and change the meaning to whatever i want. In a fast changing language climate, i’d like to hear what others mean by what they say. Especially since i didn’t know the term and what i thought it meant was contradictory to the meme.

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      • ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I don’t think you fully grasp how Wikipedia works and how much work is put into it to keep it up to date and accurate. Maybe you should try changing the meaning on that page and see what happens (although I don’t actually condone that kind of behavior).

        I could vouch for that specific article, because it words it better than I could. But, it seems you’d rather have a ridiculous argument than have your question answered…

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