Jimmy 'Jimbo' Wales has warned students not to refer to Wikipedia, reports the US education weekly The Chronicle.
Wales said that he gets about 10 e-mail messages a week from students who complain that Wikipedia has earned them fail grades.
"They say, 'Please help me. I got an F on my paper because I cited Wikipedia'" and the information turned out to be wrong, he says. But he said he has no sympathy for their plight, noting that he thinks to himself: "For God sake, you're in college; don't cite the encyclopedia," the journal reports.
Orlowski, Andrew. "Avoid Wikipedia, Warns Wikipedia Chief." The Register. 15 June 2006, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/15/
wikipedia_can_damage_your_grades/.
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