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Brought to you by the same people that told you not to believe everything you read on the internet and now only read click bait headlines from Fox or Breitbart (lemmy.world)
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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

All encyclopedias are bad sources. Be they wiki or not. They are not in depth enough on a topic to be useful in a paper.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    That's why you check the sources cited by the encyclopedias, which tend to be more in depth and credible than the encyclopedia entries themselves.

    It's not a "encyclopedia bad" problem as much as a lack of going just one layer deeper to get to the data itself.

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