Re: [LM_NET] Why NOT Wikapedia

[Darla Grediagin <dgrediagin@BSSD.ORG>]

My favorite Wikipedia story is when I would do a general web search on 
my niece's boyfriend.  His name would come up as having won a military 
medal that only four people in the service have won.   I deleted this 
information after I looked up the medal winners from other sources.  The 
next day the information was back on Wikipedia.  There was the ability 
to mark the information as things that should be deleted and why it 
should be deleted.  I followed that procedure and found that the entry 
was changed the next day.

This information was obscure information that didn't get look for often, 
I believe.  Due to that it stayed up on the Wikipedia for  five months 
that I know of.  That was when I started taking steps to rid the site of 
the errors.

I still teach the use of Wikipedia, but with the guidelines that I do 
for any of the encyclopedias.  They are a great starting point, but then 
you need to back up your facts.

Have a great day,

Darla

Darla Grediagin
District Librarian
dgrediagin@bssd.org
Bering Strait School District
Unalakleet, Alaska
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Kris Fallon wrote:
> Looking for some brief hard cold facts as to why wikapedia is should not be
> a "citeable" source for research.  Presenting to faculty today and there are
> some big advocates of it who will claim it is just as reliable as Worldbook.
>
> Kristina Fallon Tomaino
> Robert Morris School, LMS k-8
> South Bound Brook NJ
> librarychickie@gmail.com
>
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