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Do you use Wikipedia content?

by madison_avenue
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Have you made use of Wikipedia content? I believe this is in the public domain. If so, you have how to you use it? Do you completely rewrite it to make it unique, or do you use 'as is' and give a citation?
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
    NOT public domain. The license under which you may use their content is here: Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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  • Profile picture of the author Suthan M
    Personally, I only use wikipedia to learn the basics of what I want to know about a subject, and then go about to googling stuffs, reading books etc. on my own.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rose Anderson
    You can use it for general research when writing your own articles. If you want to use specific statistics it's best to look at the bottom of the article and find out where the information came from and go to the source. Not all the information in wikipedia is correct.

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    • Profile picture of the author madison_avenue
      Originally Posted by Rose Anderson View Post

      You can use it for general research when writing your own articles. If you want to use specific statistics it's best to look at the bottom of the article and find out where the information came from and go to the source. Not all the information in wikipedia is correct.

      Rose
      Originally Posted by Suthan M View Post

      Personally, I only use wikipedia to learn the basics of what I want to know about a subject, and then go about to googling stuffs, reading books etc. on my own.
      Thanks for the replies! This is similar to what I have found, the content on Wikipedia tends to be either, very dry, politically slanted, too academic or too technical, and also can be untrustworthy.

      I think one can use it as a first point of call to get a general overview of a subject. But if you are doing something like affiliate marketing of an Amazon product, your content is going to highly specific about a particular product and model. And Wikipedia content is irrelevant for that.
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  • Profile picture of the author mrketing.me
    As the people are saying here, Wikipedia is great for learning subjects, if you copy paste articles or use an automatic re-writer, you are likely to get flagged by indexing bots, especially Google.

    A bit of citation wont hurt, but the best thing you can do is, read the article, make sure you understand it, and write what you understood! that is the best thing you can do with re-writing if you want to ensure quality and uniqueness.
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  • Profile picture of the author Torreylee
    I only use Wikipedia to learn more about a subject I may want to write about or to fact check if I've had someone else do content for me. I never take Wikipedia info and use it on my sites word for word. But just read it, understand it and then put it in your own words, delete parts you don't want add information that's not in there, You'll be fine.

    As far as attribution rules, I don't know.
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