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[-] Onfire@lemmy.world 185 points 1 year ago

Wiki was getting popular when I was in college over 10 years ago. I recall a history professor telling me not to use Wikipedia as source. I am like, okay, I will just use the source wiki uses, which are pretty solid in my opinion. Wiki came a long way.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

Please dig a little bit deeper. You may end up with a stack of links to 404 sites instead of actual sources. Just because you copied a citation from WP doesn’t mean the source actually exists, let alone contains the information you seek.

[-] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

In that case, try using an archived version of the webpage, for example at the Wayback Machine

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