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Quoting wikipedia as a source?

For the IB, am I allowed to use wikipedia as a source, or is it frowned upon?
Why would you ever use wikipedia for anything? Most of its articles will provide citations anyway. Quote them.
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For the IB, am I allowed to use wikipedia as a source, or is it frowned upon?


Never. Ever. Do It.
generalebriety
Why would you ever use wikipedia for anything? Most of its articles will provide citations anyway. Quote them.


indeed this is how i got around it in the EE
Lucien_Roach
Never. Ever. Do It.



I SO AGREE.
i read an article that using wikipedia can actually lower people's grades.
everyone edits in wikipedia..
so i dont think quoting wikipedia is a good idea
at all
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alvo23k
from what ive heard IB don't consider wikipedia a good source
I cited a wikipedia article in my EE.. haha.
Well, we shall see on Sunday what they thought about that :P
Dont quote wikipedia.

BUT - find a useful page on wikipedia, go to the bottom of it and you will see the source links. View them and use them for quotes/sources etc.

MUCH BETTER :-)
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Sigma44
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funny how few yrs ago, IB used wikipedia as a source for the ITGS coursework reading materials
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natasha02
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^^ haha really>>??

well the IBians are a random bunch of ppl and mega lazy...
going thru past papers i found two papers from 2 years exactly the same..word to word

as far as wikipedia goes...dont cite..
but the info u find there u can pretty much find anywhere else..
try not to
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Ethem
Damn it, 80% of my citation was from Wikipedia...
maybe that's why I got a D :frown:
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JimGrey
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I used it as a source and i got a B for my EE. As long as you use it for purely information dont quote from it..

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