# Is referring to posters as "Dopes" an insult?

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**Created:** [January 3, 2022, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-referring-to-posters-as-dopes-an-insult/957105 "2022-01-03T00:17:44Z")
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### Author: ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-referring-to-posters-as-dopes-an-insult/957105/46 "2022-01-04T18:19:41Z")

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> [@Atamasama](#):
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> I believe that @RitterSport is curious about the context of people protesting your Wikipedia cites.

Yes, exactly. It’s possible they were disagreeing with you’re takeaway from the Wiki cite, in that maybe it didn’t support your claim, or saying that the particular Wiki page is not good because of reasons or a dozen other things.

I [cite](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-referring-to-posters-as-dopes-an-insult/957105/46) [Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation) all the time here and never get pushback.

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