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  2. Wikipedia:Academic use - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is increasingly used by people in the academic community, from first-year students to distinguished professors, as an easily accessible tertiary source for information about anything and everything and as a quick "ready reference", to get a sense of a concept or idea. However, citation of Wikipedia in research papers may be considered ...

  3. Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Wikipedia can be a great tool for learning and researching information. However, as with all tertiary reference works, Wikipedia is not considered to be a reliable source as not everything in Wikipedia is accurate, comprehensive, or unbiased. Wikipedia, like other encyclopedias, is intended to provide an overview of topics and indicate ...

  4. Wikipedia:Research help - Wikipedia

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    There are many ways to get help on Wikipedia, and friendly people who can help you. If a Wikipedia article doesn't exist or you can't find an article that contains what you're looking for, you can ask a Wikipedia editor at our reference desk to research it for you. If you research the topic, you can add a reference and a summary of that source ...

  5. Wikipedia:Wikipedia in research - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia has been the center of a much heated and critical debate in academia pertaining to the relevance, accuracy, and effectiveness of using information found online in academic research, especially in places where information is constantly being created, revised, and deleted by people of various backgrounds, ranging from experts to curious learners.

  6. Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia, like other encyclopedias, provides overviews of a topic and indicates sources of more extensive information. See researching with Wikipedia and academic use of Wikipedia for more information. If you do decide to cite Wikipedia, remember that its articles are constantly changing: cite exact time, date, and the article version you are ...

  7. Help:Wikipedia editing for researchers, scholars, and academics

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    Help:Wikipedia editing for researchers, scholars, and academics. This is a guide for subject experts who have worked as a researcher, scholar, or academic. Experts without an academic background may prefer . Help:Academic. If you are a professional researcher, engineer, mathematician, scholar, graduate student, or other academic, you are very ...

  8. Wikipedia:FAQ/Schools - Wikipedia

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    Students should never use information in Wikipedia (or any other online encyclopedia) for formal purposes (such as school essays) until they have verified and evaluated the information based on external sources. For this reason, Wikipedia, like any encyclopedia, is a great starting place for research but not always a great ending place.

  9. Wikipedia:Researching Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Researching Wikipedia(formerly known as State of Wikipedia) discusses some ways to quantitativelymeasure various aspects of Wikipediaproject as well as covers research done in that area. The subject is difficult, as there are different goals that Wikipedia may have, and different ways of measuring achievement of those goals.