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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 Web Address : http://bssdonline.org/course/view.php?id=51 Blog: http://aklibrarian1.edublogs.org/ OPAC: http://opac.bssd.org:8181/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl 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 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. > You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings > by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. > To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu > In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL > 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. > * LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ > * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ > * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/ > * LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html > * LM_NET Wiki: http://lmnet.wikispaces.com/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. * LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/ * LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html * LM_NET Wiki: http://lmnet.wikispaces.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------