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<blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 3957226" data-attributes="member: 40522">Wikipedia was new when I was in college, and I distinctly remember all of my professors telling me that wikipedia was not acceptable as a source for research papers and the like. Considered anecdotal at best, wikipedia can be an amusing thing to spend an hour browsing through, but I've never seen it taken very seriously as a source of reliable information.The DM of the Forgotten Realms game that I play in teaches English and classical literature at a state university. He tells me that every time he sees a paper with a wikipedia entry cited as a source, he tosses it out without even bothering to read it and the student automatically gets a failing grade for that paper. I'm not even going to comment about what wikipedia should do about its policies. I don't honestly care enough to form a solid opinion one way or the other. I'm simply sharing the observation that wikipedia is pop culture, not academia. Hell, wikipedia even has an article about criticism of wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia</a>. Wikipedia is in the same league as youtube and myspace. The way it's set up now, it's never going to be mentioned alongside Britannica.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dykstrav, post: 3957226, member: 40522"] Wikipedia was new when I was in college, and I distinctly remember all of my professors telling me that wikipedia was not acceptable as a source for research papers and the like. Considered anecdotal at best, wikipedia can be an amusing thing to spend an hour browsing through, but I've never seen it taken very seriously as a source of reliable information. The DM of the Forgotten Realms game that I play in teaches English and classical literature at a state university. He tells me that every time he sees a paper with a wikipedia entry cited as a source, he tosses it out without even bothering to read it and the student automatically gets a failing grade for that paper. I'm not even going to comment about what wikipedia should do about its policies. I don't honestly care enough to form a solid opinion one way or the other. I'm simply sharing the observation that wikipedia is pop culture, not academia. Hell, wikipedia even has an article about criticism of wikipedia: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia[/url]. Wikipedia is in the same league as youtube and myspace. The way it's set up now, it's never going to be mentioned alongside Britannica. [/QUOTE]

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