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

[Swat 3]

Wikipedia is in no way a bad source for essays/projects. Why do they do this?

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[Nal]

because its too easy

[awesomebread]

they think it's inaccurate because anyone can edit it

[Bisjac]

Because its not research

[Theepicman]

Because they know its a huge source which will have your project completed within a day so they pull that card so they can put stress on you because you need to work longer.

[Planr]

Because they are ignorant.

The general statement of the handicapped masses is "anyone can edit it!"
No they CAN'T you morons. Literally over half of all Wikipedia articles are locked/semi-protected so only registered users can edit it, and there are also anti-grief bots on wikipedia that are very smart about detecting spam and out-of-context text in articles and they automatically remove it. A lot of potential problem users are IP-banned from editing wikipedia articles before they can change anything a 4th time.
Oh, and NOW, wikipedia has implemented a review system where any edits you try to make can only take effect once they pass a review by registered users.

My Marine Science/Biology teacher Mr. Gash is pretty cool about this though and has no problem with us using wikipedia

Oh, and in 8th grade, I wrote my entire US National Monument project using Wikipedia as my only source, and I turned it in three weeks late.
I got an A+ on it.

[KillerCop311]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_with_Wikipedia
?

[ßlöükfáce]

They think that because anyone can modify them they're automatically incorrect
All the wikipedias I've seen have been correct

[Swat 3]

Mr. C, please do notice that, yes, I am citing Wikipedia, but majorly because of this:
1. The Philadelphia wikipedia page is protected.
2. Wikipedia is a port for sources located at the bottom of all pages (if there are no works cited, then the page is marked at the top).
3. All websites are at risk of having false information. Using the card against Wikipedia because “people can put false things” is not creditable. Wikipedia actually shows you the references.

On command, however, I will go through the references myself through the Wikipedia article and add them separately to this document.
I'm sticking this in my document.

[Khorde]

Almost anything on the internet can be edited by anyone - not strictly in the same way of wikipedia, but you get the point.

Trusted sites for research usually have actual experts in the fields writing the articles and this is backed up by the fact they're on accredited college, science or government websites.

[mlockha]

I'm sticking this in my document.

okay gl getting a bad grade

[SlayerZ99]

Easy way to use wikipedia for a project is to you it as reference or confirmation

If I don't know anything about a subject I look it up on wikipedia then research in detail about things I got from the Wikipedia topic
Or if I find some information that I'm not 100% sure about ill look at Wikipedia to see if it matches

[Swat 3]

okay gl getting a bad grade

ill have fun

[Joltarn]

ill have fun

they'll dock your grade m8
while i do disagree with "no wikipedia allowed", the teacher isn't likely to back off from his position cause you put a few snippets in
... if anything you could just copy the references that wikipedia cites and call it a day

[Caribou]

Anyone can edit the page, which is why however I still think that on many things it is accurate.