False information

[emeraldrafael]

Many still believe Wikipedia, but there is a reason that college professors won't take it as a source of information.

Some of its good. its easier to use Wikipedia, and then check it against facts online like history channel or so. Or the links and sources they use on the pages.

OT: I know people who still think that The US alone won the American Revolution alone, or with little minimal forces.

And that the original native American tribes in the Americas were some savage people who (I guess) needed Europe to teach them how to be a civilization.

 

[Hal10k]

You only use 10% of your brain. This is untrue and a ridiculous concept that keeps being brought up in movies. You know who you are.

i think (may be wrong) that you only use 10% at any one time, because each area controls so many different, tiny processes that using it all at once would use up too much energy and your body couldnt work.

Nope. There is no part of your brain that is ever completely inactive at any time.

OT: Pretty much every conspiracy theory ever conspired.

 

[FalloutJack]

-Micronized-

Well, I suppose it depends upon where you went to college. I had professors that allowed it and some of them (irritatingly) required it. (Not Wiki, obviously.) Not all educators are created equal, given your C/P routine at age 13.

Care to elaborate?
Google leads me to believe it's a weight training routine. I don't see how it's relevant to what you said.

I know what you mean. I've never heard of an assessment requiring websites as references. I'm pretty sure we just fail our referencing if we use websites, it's probably a university or school (Various Schools within the University; school of biomedical science, school of aeronautics etc.) policy.

It's down to what the professor wants, and that pretty much boils down to his teaching method and subject and just what he'll accept. Maybe you can't FIND a hard copy of what you need anymore. Maybe the class revolves around the internet. Perhaps a site has actually done better research THAN the books, having done independent studies to combine their efforts WITH those books, but they're not published. It can happen.

In the end, the point is that in the hall sites you CAN use for direct referencing, Wikipedia isn't it. And if a professor DOES allow that, he should be fired.

Sorry, I was vague in my wording. I got all of that, I was looking for clarification on the phrase

[...]given your C/P routine at age 13.

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The copy-and-pasting story you mentioned.