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Can answers be copied from Wikipedia to WikiAnswers?
No; that is plagiarism, and is illegal. You may quote sections it if it relevant to the answer, but we do encourage all answers to be your own work. You can link to Wikipedia using the "Related Links" section of the answer.
Why does WikiAnswers have information copied from Wikipedia when the latter is unreliable?
Answers that are directly copied from Wikipedia or other sites are considered plagiarism. WikiAnswers does not tolerate plagiarism as it not in accordance with WikiAnswers plagiarism policy.If you find a plagiarized answer, contact a WikiAnswers supervisor, or report it in the Community Forum.
How come the Answers site is so good?
Answers is awesome because it doesn't give you all the gobbledygook that Wikipedia does. It gets straight to the point.
What is the difference between Answers.com Reference Answers and Wikipedia?
Wikipedia an encyclopedia with no questions and answers, and Answers.com Reference Answers has questions and answers.
Why does Answers.com steal articles from wikipedia?
Actually, Answers doesn't. The problem is that some contributors are doing this. If you see this, please flag the answer as containing copied and pasted materials, and a supervisor or other contributor can fix this.
Is Wikipedia Encylopedia copying answers and info from other websites?
NOTE: The website you are presently viewing is WikiAnswers, NOT Wikipedia. They are two different sites. WikiAnswers is a question and answer site. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. Both are "wikis", which means they are human-edited. Info should never be copied word for word from other sites. This answer depends on the user and their personal integrity.
Does Answers.com gets its info from Wikipedia?
No, it gets it's answers from people who know the answer to the questions. These answers CAN be retrieved from wikipedia, yes.
What do you need to find and see webpages?
Maybe Wikipedia or Wikipedia answers.
What are some answering websites?
Google, wikipedia, answers, yahoo answers
How do you know that someone has copied the answer from internet?
if you want to know whether anyone has copied from net, you type the same question in net and verify the answers.
Did Answers.com create Wikipedia?
No Answers did not create Wikipedia. Answers Cooperation is a completely different company. Wikipedia was built by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger with MediaWiki.
How does Wikipedia know so many answers?
Wikipedia compiles knowledge from every member of the wikipedia foundation who can edit pages.
