On Sep 17, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Kim van der Linde wrote:
Phil Sandifer wrote:
On Sep 17, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Kim van der Linde wrote:
Phil Sandifer wrote:
Our attitude should be "add information first, and if the information looks dodgy we'll challenge it."
And I think this is exactly why Wikipedia is so unreliable. Because it does not get challenged.
Except... it's not unreliable.
Well, I disagree on this to the point that I would not allow students to use Wikipedia as a source. Period.
I don't allow my students to cite Wikipedia, but I don't let them cite Britannica either. The reason isn't reliability, though - it's that encyclopedias aren't academic sources.
You've seen Alan Liu's guide to citing WIkipedia, right? (Liu is a big name humanities figure - highly respected writer on digital media) http://kairosnews.org/developing-a-wikipedia-research-policy
It's a good example of a commonsense citation policy, and should probably be taken as a model for us.
-Phil