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Middlebury Bans Wikipedia as Academic Source
Vermont's Middlebury College has banned the use of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as an acceptable source of academic information for students at Vermont's Middlebury College, United Press International reported.
The open-source, free encyclopedia lets anyone create and edit citations, which has resulted in the publication of incorrect information. Because of the errors, Middlebury's history department recently instituted the ban. Because of errors, Middlebury's history department instituted a policy that says, "Wikipedia is not an acceptable citation, even though it may lead one to a citable source," according to Vermont-based Burlington Free Press. [...]
The Wikipedia Foundation supports the new policy, the Free Press said. In an e-mail to the newspaper, the foundation said it is an "ideal place to start" for students; "however, it is not an authoritative source.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
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3 comments:
you read too much news. how did you even come across this.
furthermore, when i was in undergrad getting my history minor, i was not allowed to use wikipedia either. in fact, I don't think they liked us to use online material at all really. and, that would be why i had to borrow random books from your library to write those stupid papers.
my crazy poetry teacher sent it b/c she encourages us to use wikipedia...
maybe this is because we no longer have a library though I don't know
by the way it's currently 59 degrees in southern illinois. i spent the last two hours doing homework outside in the chinese garden
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