2026-01-02 19:23 UTC
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@ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 2026-01-02 19:30
I think it would be reasonable to teach kids to look at Wikipedia to find sources.
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@turmacar@lemmy.world 2026-01-02 19:56
You shouldn’t cite wikipedia in a paper because it’s a tertiary source. Somehow that got lost in translation sometime in the 90s. You shouldn’t cite any other encyclopedia either, because they’re “some guy” writing a paragraph or so about a thing. I think it was Britannica that Tolkein wrote a lot of the “W"’s for. I’m sure he did a great job, but it’s not exactly easy to fact check him either.
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@dil@lemmy.zip 2026-01-02 20:18
You know what, I was gonna agree because last time I was googling some sikh history as a sikh it seemed to be driding the indian governement but looking at the articles now it has correct casualty estimates. I swear last time I looked it was framed like the government estimate for casualties at 83 killed 900 injured was accurate, now it frames it like how every news article not on wikipedia did with 10k deaths being the likely estimate. I see no mention of israel tho, which is odd since operation blue star was an israeli trained operation, had the isreali flag as the symbol and name lol. I can’t find the older article from india celebrating the anniversary of them working together, training soldiers to massacre civilians, but its out there somewhere, times india 1990s or 2000s.