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Be a bro, donate to your favourite website that has saved your ass multiple times when you've been late doing that assignment.

For your records: Your donation on 2012-11-15 was NOK 230.00. (=30€)

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Awesom3

To be completely honest I really would care/mind if Wiki had ads.

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adamofgreyskull

Depends. If they have to court advertisers it would affect the (perceived) impartiality of Wikipedia. If there's an ad for Coca-Cola on the page for Coca-cola, do you trust the article to tell the truth about Coca-Cola? How do you know what's sponsored by Coca-Cola and what's not?

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Sparkssss

Are you aware that as it is, the information is frequently put up by the same people who would place advertisements on Wikipedia? I dont know whether Coca-Cola wrote whatever it says about them on the Coca-Cola Wikipedia page, but I can confirm this is frequently done by other companies (and famous people often edit their own page too, for the same reason).

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Sinovera

Same here. As for what Adamofgreyskull said, I would not like wikipedia to take those kinds of ads but rather just banners and stuff on the top/bottom of the page or in the middle of an article.

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Mezza

I use yahoo answers to study, not wiki pedia

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saffers

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Araita

Jesus Christ how horrifying.

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adamofgreyskull

Lol, really hope you're joking.

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xfri

lol.

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Flammable

Yahoo answers? Oh... that sounds ... reliable

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Gawaine

I hope people do not really cite Wikipedia when writing papers...

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smog0

no, people actually copy Wikipedia articles

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Mezza

Are we talking about middle schoolers here?

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smog0

high schooleers and some college's students also

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AethyrKnight

Though those college students quickly learn not to. I haven't used Wikipedia since starting Uni :L.

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Damien1P

Check wikipedia
Cite wiki's sources
????
Profit

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bull21

^
One big, fat +1 on that bro.
Wait, you do mean go to wiki, read sources and google them and read and do all research stuff on your own?

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Damien1P

Don't really need google. Just go from source to source that wikipedia cited. And if that's not enough info, then you can google.

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Yokuo

Exactly. People give people who use Wiki crap for it, but wiki cites most things, so just use those sources and you're golden. It's not a hard concept.

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Sparkssss

Nah the easy way is to copy the Wikipedia article, and then keep that for submission and change whatever it says on the Wikipedia page to something else so then if the teacher reads the Wikipedia page it will be different ;)

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KaBob

One time I updated Wikipedia because it didn't have the answers to my assignment =p

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MDuh

just put ads on it. My university's online library can handle all my researching needs

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