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minus-squareParlimentOfDoom@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·7 days agoAll encyclopedias are bad sources. Be they wiki or not. They are not in depth enough on a topic to be useful in a paper.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 days agoThat’s why you check the sources cited by the encyclopedias, which tend to be more in depth and credible than the encyclopedia entries themselves. It’s not a “encyclopedia bad” problem as much as a lack of going just one layer deeper to get to the data itself.
All encyclopedias are bad sources. Be they wiki or not. They are not in depth enough on a topic to be useful in a paper.
That’s why you check the sources cited by the encyclopedias, which tend to be more in depth and credible than the encyclopedia entries themselves.
It’s not a “encyclopedia bad” problem as much as a lack of going just one layer deeper to get to the data itself.