edryd

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[–] edryd@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

"The only art form that Americans have invented, that will commend us down through the years to posterity, is a music born primarily in a community that has the historical memory of being unfree is a supposedly free land" - Ken Burns

[–] edryd@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The common reasons given why Wikipedia shouldn't be cited is often missing the main reason. You shouldn't cite Wikipedia because it is not a source of information, it is a summary of other sources which are referenced.

You shouldn't cite Wikipedia for the same reason you shouldn't cite a library's book report, you should read and cite the book itself. Libraries are a great resource and their reading lists and summaries of books can be a great starting point for research, just like Wikipedia. But citing the library instead of the book is just intellectual laziness and shows to any researcher you are not serious.

Wikipedia itself also says the same thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia

[–] edryd@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well considering it's written in English I doubt Russians are their target audience.

[–] edryd@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Article about how important open access science is, behind a paywall...

arXiv is simply amazing though, I'm a physics PhD student and I've never had a problem reading a paper because every physics paper is available for free for anyone on arXiv.

[–] edryd@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

The US is just the most "successful" product of European colonialism and imperialism after all.