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[Mazty]

dsgrue3 said:

Mazty said:

You have eyes ergo you can check the references. To just dismiss it because "it's wiki" is just lazy. If we were talking about writing a paper, then okay, it's not a profs responsibility to check sources, but you're not a professor and this isn't a university. You can just check the legitimate nature of the sources by *gasp* clicking on them. 
If you are going to be so pedantic as to demand that correctly referenced wiki pages can't be used, may I ask what are you doing to fight plagiarism? 

It's laziness on your part to cite wikipedia rather than the source cited within the wikipedia entry. As I said, wikipedia is modifiable by anyone. You have to check the source, and if you have checked it, why not just cite the actual source instead of the wikipedia entry which actually could be modified in between the time you cite it and the time I read it, nullifying it entirely.

Yet when I gave you the wiki references you deleted them all....

Who cares if wiki is modifiable by anyone? Click the link and if a supposed paper is a link to somewhere else, okay then you can question the statement. But if the link is to a peer reviewed paper, what's the issue?

If you are going to be so pedantic over referencing, what are you doing over plagiarisim? Also side note: you never answered if you're handicapped...still wondering...