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The workaround is to use Wikipedia and quote the sources you find on the article.


Isn't that exactly what Wikipedia wants you to do? You can put anything on Wikipedia without a source anyway.

What I find obnoxious is that these are the same schools that will hand the kids a ChromeBook without being critical of Google incentive.


To avoid the wikipedia issue (and also because research papers are a pony show) I wrote grade school research papers that were so obscure (at the time), that I used a geocities page as my source. Myotonic Fainting Goats... some dude who had a farm of them wrote up some web page about them.


Exactly. Wikipedia is a tool for finding sources. They're already cited at the bottom. Just click the footnote, navigate to the source, and fact check it.


That's what TFA says




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