Having references at the end of every article may give the apperance
of being more credible.
However, many sources I might quote might have incorrect information,
or could be fabricated.
Many people seem to feel more comfortable with print media and seem to
think that if it's in print, it must be true, but in reality you
shouldn't trust print articles and books anymore than you trust their
Internet counterparts.
Mark
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:43:45 -0500 (EST), Shaun MacPherson
<shaun_macpherson2001(a)yahoo.ca> wrote:
Sorry I forgot to invite you all to use
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_…)
as an area for us to discuss this issue. The
Wikitechs will beat you there now ;).
Shaun MacPherson
--- Shaun MacPherson <shaun_macpherson2001(a)yahoo.ca>
wrote:
Larry Sanger believes that the solution to make
Wikipedia more credible are with experts. You can
see
a good article descriping his criticisms here (
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/03/144207&tid=95&tid=1
) posted on Jan 3, 2004.
I think the easiest way to make Wikipedia more
credible is with a Fact and Reference Project, which
the community has been developing over a period of
more than a few months now: (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check
).
The thing holding this project back, and ultimately
Wikipedia from sheading the skin of being
'noncredible' is the lack of intelligent foot/end
notes. A way to format an article with
autonumbering
endnotes for crossreferencing is lacking. I am sure
with this feature programmed in this project can be
on
its way to cross referencing all facts on Wikipedia.
You can see some examples offoot/endnote formatting
template here. JesseW has put much effort into
trying
to create a formating guide here (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes )
and
another guide here (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite_sources
).
Examples are here (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check…
).
How credible will Wikipedia be if each fact is
crossreferenced with 5, 10, 20 external sources like
academic journals, encyclopedias, books? Very.
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