Why do teachers pull the "No Wikipedia!!!" card?

[McJobless]

My philosophy teacher made it clear we could use Wikipedia so long as you paste the "sources" list in your bibliography instead of the Wikipedia page.

[Ad Bot]

[Clone v.117]

Just use the resources at the bottom of the page rather than the wiki article itself.

[Harm94]

Wikipedia or not, almost anyone these days is a so called expert. I rarely take things with a pinch of salt these days because of that.

[Renekar]

citation needed

[[Maxx]]

i've used wikipedia once in one of my reports
the teacher writes a note

"maxx you cannot just copy and paste, please redo your project."

i write angrily on the page and turn it in
"i object, how can in your own dim mind see that i have used the demanding resourceful site that is wikipedia for the entire page? you do not as i must tell you know that i have copy and pasted, because i haven't, i have spoken on a paper that i have written for a demanded grade that is in my own words ENTIRELY. you have absolutely no idea how far past the line of discrimination over this site you have gone yet you still ridicule the site for having a possibility that people that are very good users can edit the site to make the page more intelligent, please think for the next time you write this futile statement that you think before you speak."

she goes
"ok i'll let you slide on this one."

she has never done this to me again

[Night Fox]

Wikipedia or not, almost anyone these days is a so called expert. I rarely take things with a pinch of salt these days because of that.

"these days"? you're 20. quit being pretentious

[Clone v.117]

"these days"? you're 20. quit being pretentious

You can say "these days" without meaning that you were present at a prior time, it just means these days ;-;

[heedicalking]

i really hope this is a joke or a copypasta or something. don't tell me you actually wrote something that stupid.

[@Ravencroft]

It's called plagiarism and it's illegal. Your teacher should be fired for "letting it slide."

Jesus christ

[Niblic²]

-snip-

did you blow smoke from your pipe in her face and rode home in a horse-drawn buggy afterwards?

[[Maxx]]

did you blow smoke from your pipe in her face and rode home in a horse-drawn buggy afterwards?

i really hope this is a joke or a copypasta or something. don't tell me you actually wrote something that stupid.

it was actually a joke though
what i really wrote was "i did not actually copy and paste, i wrote the information in my own words"


inb4 one of you try to be funny and use that stupid loving picture of
"OH HEY IM handicapped JK IM PRETENDING HIAUHGUGHUGHAHUUHGHUGUHGA"

It's called plagiarism and it's illegal. Your teacher should be fired for "letting it slide."

Jesus christ

"wrote the information in my own words"

[Nonnel]

inb4 one of you try to be funny and use that stupid loving picture of
"OH HEY IM handicapped JK IM PRETENDING HIAUHGUGHUGHAHUUHGHUGUHGA"

[Swat 3]

Today I learned that bibme is not as reliable.

Jesus Christ, now I have to go through all of these sources. Next time I am using citation machine.

[Soukuw]

cause kids are too stupid to check the loving cites.

[Port]

because nobody checks the history