Information Sources & Information Sifting Techniques
I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.
Yvette Alt Miller writes about the efforts of Ksenia Coffman to ensure the articles in Wikipedia offer honest coverage of the Holocaust and the NAZI regime.
-DDLabels: Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, wikipedia
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John Ribeiro reports that Wikipedia is banning editors who are paid for their work by firms who want positive articles.
-DDLabels: wikipedia
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Dariusz Jemielniak utilzes Wikipedia in his courses. In the comments about his article there is a lot of pushback to endorsement of Wikipedia.
-DDLabels: wikipedia
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Sharon Gaudin noted that "Sarah Palin fans try to rewrite history on Wikipedia" in her June 6 Computerworld article. The fact that partisans can change the content of Wikipedia articles is a major reason to avoid using this tool as the sole source for research. Information found on Wikipedia should be confirmed by consulting other reliable sources.
Labels: multiple witnesses, verification, wikipedia
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Some people are not aware that many articles on Wikipedia are unlocked so that they can be edited by anyone. Wikipedia is a great starting point if one knows nothing about a topic, but as Stephan Pastis indicated in the November 18 "Pearls Before Swine" cartoon, verify what you learn by consulting other sources.
-D.D.
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