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for the first time the Wikipedia entry discussing my novel “The Human Stain.” The entry contains a serious misstatement that I would like to ask to have removed. This item entered Wikipedia not from the world of truthfulness but from the babble of literary gossip—there is no truth in it at all. Yet when, through an official interlocutor, I recently petitioned Wikipedia to delete this misstatement, along with two others, my interlocutor was told by the “English Wikipedia Administrator”—in a letter

Wikipedia (i/ˌwɪkᵻˈpiːdiə/ or i/ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ WIK-i-PEE-dee-ə) is a free online encyclopedia that, by default, allows its users to edit any article.[4] Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet[5][6][7] and is ranked among the ten most popular websites.[2] Wikipedia is owned by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation.[8][9][10] Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.[11] Sanger[12] coined its name,[13] a portmanteau of wiki[notes

Wikipedia is a commonly used site when people are surfing the web. The accuracy of the information on the Wikipedia site is often questioned because anyone with access to the Internet can make changes to Wikipedia’s articles by either contributing anonymously, or with their real identity if they would like. To test Wikipedia’s accuracy of information I have chosen to research Spina Bifida and compare Wikipedia’s information on this topic with multiple other sources that are credible. According to

The article from Wikipedia called “Battle of Hastings” is about the historical Battle of Hastings, fought on October 14, 1066. Part of the Norman conquest of England, it was between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson. Taking place approximately 7 miles northwest of Hastings, East Sussex, England, it was a Norman victory. This significant battle was fought due to the death of childless King Edward the Confessor which

year after Britannica.com was started, they laid off 20 percent of their work force. III. Competition: Wikipedia Wikipedia was created in 2001 and has become one of the leading reference sites on the World Wide Web with around 68 million visitors monthly as of January 2010. Wikipedia consists of more than 91,000 contributors and 15,000,000 articles in over 270 languages. Wikipedia allows hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world to freely make tens edits and create

WHITE PAPER Plagiarism and the Web: Myths and Realities An Analytical Study on Where Students Find Unoriginal Content on the Internet Prevent Plagiarism. Engage Students. www.turnitin.com Table of Contents 1.0 Summary ...................................................................................................................... 3 2.0 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 4 3.0 Popular Content

of a term. I decided to make a web-app using HTML, CSS and JS/JQuery, which allowed the user to search Wikipedia in a matter of miliseconds. Wikipedia’s search engine is quite slow and once you do find your Wikipedia page, the amount of text, information and images many times distract the user to what they are aiming to get. So I designed this method, which retrieves information from Wikipedia, and places them instantly below your

Teachers have been adamantly against the use of Wikipedia as a credible source in essays. Students have been told by them that because anyone can post information on Wikipedia, that the information is always changing, and that it has been known to be wrong before, Wikipedia is not a safe place to receive reliable academic information. In Wikipedia as a Site of Knowledge Production, Danah Boyd offers persuasive and interesting perspectives on why Wikipedia is a credible source for information. Boyd is

Wikipedia: Is It The Best Source for truth? Faisal O. Alzahrani ELS Language Center Wikipedia:Is It The Best Source For Truth? Introduction: Wikipedia is the largest free online encyclopedia in the world. Wikipedia provides for people information on every topic that they could possibly need or search for. Nonetheless, people can edit information as easily as they can search corrections and updates without having trouble of plagiarism. Because, a lot of articles

7 October 2011 Effects on Nurses Working Long Hours Patients in a hospital and/or healthcare facilities have to be cared for all day and all night, everyday of the week by nurses. The usual way to fulfill this need is to divide up the day into three 8-hour shifts. Different shifts have been put into place to help improve nurse satisfaction, decrease the nursing shortage and save the hospital money. The 24-hour day is made up of two 12-hour shifts; 12 hours in the day and 12 hours at night. There