Re: [LM_NET] Why NOT Wikapedia

[Thomas Kaun <tomkaun@GMAIL.COM>]

Hi, Kristina.
I'm not sure why a student or any researcher, using the information they got
from Wikipedia would not cite it. This just drives me crazy. If the teacher
or professor wants to restrict students use of Wikipedia or ensure that
other resources are used to verify the information found there that doesn't
absolve the researcher's obligation to cite the source no matter how
inaccurate, in error, or whatever, that source is. The issue is not
citation--it's use--and that has to be determined by the teacher. Some
teachers also don't want kids to use general encyclopedias and they say the
same thing, "Don't cite the World Book or Britannica." Once again that
doesn't make sense to me. If you are using it as a source then you should be
citing it.
I know this is long answer to a short question but it just pushes my buttons
when we and other teachers don't  seem to understand the purpose of citation
and are giving their students the wrong message about what and why to cite.
Tom Kaun

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Kris Fallon <librarychickie@gmail.com>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
>
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