wikipedia and nuthuggers

Tried to see if anything was mentioned on the entry from James Toney's high school, which is in my state.

The entry has been corrected, but it used to say something about "sucking dog **** is mandatory for graduation" or something like that.

 

http://www.slate.com/id/2172703/?GT1=10252


Corporations edit their own pages constantly. So yes anything negative about them will be erased quickly. I bet that someone with Teddy Atlas (his secretary, whoever) watches the page and edits it.

 

Get real that site is quality,easy to use loads of info,loads of links to other sites,for history and sport its ****ing fantastic,shed loads of topics and inff course it aint always right,but i use it a hell of a lot,and love it.

 

:good Your right there all right,but it does normaly get taking down quick.The best one i saw was after last years rugby world cup,when the english ref failed to see a foward pass that france scored from against the mighty all blacks,and on the refs page some kiwi had added

"if he ever steps foot in new zealand again he will be straight away thrown right back into the sea,the bloody engllish cheating *******,he cost us the final" it was a lot funnier but got taking down real quick,and i cant quite remember it,but it cracked me up.

 

wikipedia is awesome..i've passed classes just by using wikipedia

 

It has alot of accurate info on it. But it is ALWAYS best if you plan on using it for debate OR class to check it's sources. Often they can be found at the bottom of the page.

 

High school, I hope. I teach at the university level and regularly make students redo papers if they use this as a source. All my course outlines warn against using this as a source.

 

I use it as a source, IF I can go to the source it uses at the bottom and it's reputable. I of course, sight THAT as the source. Wikipedia is used as a place to gather alot of info together on subjects and put it in one place. I just make sure I verify the info elsewhere and use it as more of a guide.

 

Now, THAT'S ok - if you use it kind of as an indicator of where to start to look for information, get a few cites to legitimate journal articles and the like, that's one thing. What I'm talking about is students citing the wiki articles as a viable source itself. Now THAT'S a "no-no," at least in my classes!

 

Yah that's a no no period:good

 

It's not ideal for classes that require essays, but you can pass university math and computer science courses with wikipedia. It gives enough info for some essays, but unfortunately there is a small chance the data is erroneous and therefore you can't cite it. People over 30 tend to have an irrational fear of wikipedia though.

It's also not the best for modern personal or corporate information since rich people and corporations constantly moderate articles about them. Other than that, it's great.