Within any field there is a general consensus regarding which textbooks,
references, and journal articles are authoritative, or at least
important. Those who teach or write in the field are familiar with these
and can be of great help in identifying them.
Fred
I think of interest to this discussion list.
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Luyt, B. (2012). The inclusivity of Wikipedia and the drawing of expert
boundaries: An examination of talk pages and reference lists. *Journal Of
The American Society For Information Science & Technology*, *63*(9),
1868-1878.
*Wikipedia* is frequently viewed as an inclusive medium. But inclusivity
within this online encyclopedia is not a simple matter of just allowing
anyone to contribute. In its quest for legitimacy as an encyclopedia,*
Wikipedia* relies on outsiders to judge claims championed by rival
editors.
In choosing these experts, Wikipedians define the boundaries of
acceptable
comment on any given subject. Inclusivity then becomes a matter of how
the
boundaries of expertise are drawn. In this article I examine the nature
of
these boundaries and the implications they have for inclusivity and
credibility as revealed through the talk pages produced and sources used
by
a particular subset of *Wikipedia*'s creators-those involved in writing
articles on the topic of Philippine history.
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