April 15 2013 Michael Jordan VS Wikipedia Over the past twelve years there has been a great controversy on whether or not the website Wikipedia is reliable enough to get sources that are accurate enough to believe. Many seem quick to judge whether or not if Wikipedia is a credible source and cites the necessary about to make it a reliable source to get information from. In the article “Wikipedia”(2013)‚ unknown authors inform the general public about the Wikipedia website. The authors provide evidence
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Over the years that Wikipedia has been running‚ there has been a continuous debate on whether it is a reliable resource or not and no one has been able to come up with a conclusion. However‚ there are many people who think that they have come up with a compromise‚ which includes Wikipedia being a good source for basic information but not for the sole information of any given topic. Especially for college students‚ Wikipedia can get tricky in the sense where it is easy to just read through and agree
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Is Wikipedia a Credible and Valid Source of Information? Management 521 July 25‚ 2011 Is Wikipedia a Credible and Valid Source of Information? Abstract Team A debated on whether Wikipedia is a credible and valid source of information. The team was divided into two groups‚ one side for and one side against. Among the five team members only one (the author) sided for Wikipedia as a credible and valid source. The debate lasted for seven days. Great points were raised by each team members to prove
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Wikipedia: A Blue Ocean Strategy Section A: Group 4 Analysis of Wikipedia‚ as a Blue Ocean Strategy Wikipedia‚ the collaboratively edited free internet encyclopaedia is a household name. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger‚ it has now grown to be the seventh most visited website with approximately 365 million users worldwide. How is it that the small encyclopaedia market grew more than a hundred times in the space of 8-10 years and changed its orientation in such a path breaking
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Is Wikipedia a Valid Academic Resource? Wikipedia is considered a free encyclopedia that was created by the community that uses it and according to Wikipedia founders‚ “it is a special type of website designed to make collaboration easy”. Is a website that is always changing as is always being improved by its users‚ many of the changes occurs hourly (Wikipedia: Introduction‚ 2014). So what does that mean to the academic student? Who is this community? According to the Wikipedia website‚ anyone
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Wikipedia as a Credible and Valid Source of Information Muideen Ayorinde MGT/521 April 6‚ 2012 Jim Bingel Wikipedia created in 2001 tagged the free encyclopedia is a multilingual web-based‚ free-content encyclopedia project based on an openly editable model written collaboratively by a largely anonymous internet volunteers who write without pay. (Wikipedia:About‚ 2012) Wikipedia has at least 4.8 billion visitors annually‚ over 85‚000 active contributors working on over 21 million articles
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Virginia Marciano WK2Assgn Scholarly versus popular writing among accounting articles through various different resources. Researching the popular Wikipedia.com‚ an internet website and the Walden library to do a comparison of articles for credibility. Wikipedia.com is not a scholarly resource‚ on the basis that “Scholarly writing is usually confined to journals or textbooks‚ which are more difficult to find in the market place and are usually read by academics.” In
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Why then are academics so wary about the use of Wikipedia within universities? There are a number of related reasons. Before outlining them we should acknowledge that there may be differences according to academic discipline in attitudes towards Wikipedia. Speaking to academics from the natural and medical sciences over the last year‚ it seems that those subjects are less concerned with issues of originality of source than the arts and social sciences. It also may be [pic] and this is genuine speculation
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simple desert handyman. Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work encyclopaedia on the internet with an estimated 365 million readers worldwide‚ while it is also recognized internationally with a vast selection of languages to express the website’s multilingual diversity. (Wikipedia) With such a great reputation‚ Wikipedia still manages to prove C. S. Lewis’ quote completely incorrect by expressing the fallacies strewn across the internet. Wikipedia was founded and developed
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To create a believable fake wikipedia page‚ you have to be thorough. First off‚ log into wikipedia or create an account. Don’t give them your email address because they will not let you make another account if your original account gets banned. To get into the editing screen. Click on the “edit” tab next to the wikipedia search bar in the top right corner. This will take you to the editing area. Now‚ what you will want to
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