Do you read answers that quote long text from Wikipedia?
I can do that research myself, and when the answers are too long, I skip them. It is fun to check out sites that I don’t know about, however. Let’s not get too lazy here and have others do your research or write your papers, fluther questioners:-)
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I totally agree.
We get plenty of questions here that require one of two things. A search on Wikipedia or a search on Google.
Look it up yourself.
We also have a few members that, for whatever reason, will copy and paste from Wikipedia…usually never cite it…and try to pass it off as intelligence.
I have started adding links to google and or Wikipedia on questions that require such.
Experience, opinions, and expertise are what Fluther is about. Not a Gooogle/Wikipedia service for the lazy.
i have to admit i am guilty of copy-pasting from Wiki for a long time untill they introduced the new link system
I find that tasteful pull-quotes from wiki are exactly what some questions need.
Remember, too, that you can do a quick and easy google link by throwing a :google: after your “link”. e.g. [“link” : google : andrew mcclain] without the spaces becomes link.
I think brevity is the key to answering questions, and if you need further information point them to sources on the web.
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Nope. That didn’t work either. Link opens to an error message. Andrew, perhaps a private lesson using words of only one syllable?
I agree with brevity,
where links to more info should have a brief description of what we’re being linked to.
One of the things I like about this site is finding great questions that lead to interesting topics I would not be looking for or otherwise follow.
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