[WikiEN-l] citing for wikipedia

Fri Dec 17 12:03:22 UTC 2004

 --- David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote: 
> speck912 at comcast.net (speck912 at comcast.net) [041217 22:06]:
> 
> > Hi, I'm doing a paper for my math class strangely enough and I was
> wondering how you cite in a paper for the Wikipedia Encyclopedia.  I don't
> want to plagiarize and I didn't know how to cite online encyclopedias.  If
> you could contact me back ASAP that would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.  
> 
> Quote from it only as much as you would from any encyclopedia, and cite it
> as you would any web page. If you want to cite the particular version you
> are referring to, click on the link to "Page history" and that will give
> you a pile of links to each version by date and time.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citing_Wikipedia

-- Matt

[[User:Matt Crypto]]

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