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

[Barnabas]

-handicapsnip-
"wrote the information in my own words"

That's still plagiarism, unless you cite it properly.

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[ChappersTeddy]

I visited a school recently and there was a teacher who also managed Wikipedia. He gave his class an essay and almost all of his pupils copied a wikipedia page. Turns out he edited the page with a load of false facts and they had to do the essay again.

[Acerblock]

Personally I try to stay away from Wikipedia when I have to research but I normally use it when I just want to find new facts about people or things myself.

[Steve5451²]

Ours does this too. Just site the source as the sources at the bottom of the wikipedia page. :p

[Headcrab Zombie]

The way this is worded, it sounds like a story that was told to you rather than something that personally happened to you
I doubt it happened, it's probably just a story to scare people.
Incorrect edits would most likely be fixed before students could/would get around to checking it
And if he did this repeatedly to new classes term after term, his account would quickly be banned.




Additionally, I think wikipedia also blocks edits from IPs associated with public locations (schools, libraries, etc)

[Eden]

your own dim mind

I would have given you a detention right here, kiddo.

[Acerblock]

"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."

You can't be loving serious.

[Placid]

I would have given you a detention right here, kiddo.

You can't be loving serious.

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" "wrote the information in my own words"

it's maxx what do you expect

[Aide33]

Let me give you a tip

wikipedia is good, but only for it's sources!

search the subject you want, don't take the information off the wikipedia page but in the sources at the bottom
100% guarantee that it can't be edited 

[XR-7]

I just used Wikipedia to write an introductory speech on Sebastian Vettel.  My teacher was completely fine with it.

[Blockzillahead]

Let me give you a tip

wikipedia is good, but only for it's sources!

search the subject you want, don't take the information off the wikipedia page but in the sources at the bottom
100% guarantee that it can't be edited 

Yeah no matter how much you think Wikipedia is telling lies, it's sources are 100% legit. Use those for your research.

[F3d323]

Some of my teachers don't like it because its on the internet. You can copy an encyclopedia and get away with it, but not research on Wikipedia.

[Swat 3]

Some of my teachers don't like it because its on the internet. You can copy an encyclopaedia and get away with it, but not Wikipedia.

You shouldn't really copy anything.

[McZealot]

... there aren't people who go around and maniacally edit random Wikipedia pages with believable but untrue facts.

"MWAHAHAHAHA! MY MASTER PLAN IS COMPLETE. NOW EVERYONE WILL BELIEVE THE FIRST KNOWN PHILOSOPHER WAS SOCRATES, WHEN IT WAS ACTUALLY HOMER!"

Even people who do vandalize Wikipedia just delete the page and write "LOL I TROLLED YOU" or something.

[F3d323]

Some of my teachers don't like it because its on the internet. You can copy an encyclopedia and get away with it, but not research on Wikipedia.

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