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