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_ Highlighted for Posterity _ Middlebury professors take a stand against Wikipedia

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Faculty members of the College's Department of History recently passed a resolution forbidding students from using online interactive encyclopedia Wikipedia ...

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Faculty members in the Department of History passed a resolution forbidding students from using online interactive encyclopedia Wikipedia for academic assignments. The motion passed unanimously in the wake of students citing the open encyclopedia on essays and final exams.

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As Wikipedia has become more and more popular with students, some professors have become increasingly concerned about the online, reader-produced ...

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Citing Wikipedia in your school projects and papers is now a big no no at Middlebury College in Middlebury Vermont. The History department in the small ...

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Citing Wikipedia in your school projects and papers is now a big no no at Middlebury College in Middlebury Vermont. The History department in the small liberal arts college has banned citing the popular online encyclopedia. Students who continue citing could face reduce grades or even failure from the class.

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Inisheer writes "History professors at Middlebury College are tired of having all their students submit the same bad information on term papers. The culprit: Wikipedia — the user-created encyclopedia that's full of great stuff, and also full of inaccuracies. Now the the entire History department has voted to ban students from citing it as a resource. An outright ban was considered, but dropped ...

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As Wikipedia has become more and more popular with students, some professors have become increasingly concerned about the online, reader-produced encyclopedia



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Citing Wikipedia in your school projects and papers is now a big no no at Middlebury College in Middlebury Vermont. The History department in the small ...

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Middlebury College News and Events, VT - 31 minutes ago
From The Chronicle of Higher Education: "This spring, students in history courses at Middlebury College will find a new disclaimer on syllabi warning them ...

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Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - Feb 1, 2007
“Wikipedia is very seductive: We all are sort of enamored of the convenience and speed of the Web,” says Don J. Wyatt, the chairman of Middlebury College’s ...

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Last month the history faculty at Middlebury College, a small, high-minded, high-priced institution in woody Vermont, voted to ban undergraduates from citing Wikipedia in their research papers.

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After a history faculty bans Wikipedia, John Sutherland asks if the site is just for lazy students, or is really at the forefront of an academic revolution.

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It is 1804, and Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton is lying on the ground near a riverbank, wounded and helpless. Towering above Hamilton with a ...

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LSU The Reveille, LA - 47 minutes ago
by Claire Olhsen. The Hawaiian word "wiki," which means quick, was first used in modern vernacular by Ward Cunningham in 1994 to describe a new type of Web ...

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Suppose you want to impress someone with your command of local trivia by pointing out that the main architect of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was not really Sherman after all, but a Vermont senator named George F. Edmunds -- the man Burlington named a school after.

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By Tim Johnson. Suppose you want to impress someone with your command of local trivia by pointing out that the main architect of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act ...

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Middlebury College history students are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers. The school's history department recently adopted a policy that says it's OK to consult the popular online encyclopedia, but that it can't be cited as an authoritative source by students.

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Middlebury College history students are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers.



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MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - Middlebury College history students are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers. The school's history department ...

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Middlebury College history students are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers.

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MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - Middlebury College history students are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers. The school's history department ...

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Middlebury College history students are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers. The policy says, in part, "Wikipedia is not an acceptable citation, even though it may lead one to a citable source."

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MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - Middlebury College history students are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers. The school's history department ...

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History students at Middlebury College in Vermont are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers. More Technology News More Local News

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Middlebury College in Vermont Says History Students May Not Cite Wikipedia As a Source

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The online bastion of information and sometimes misinformation, Wikipedia, is no longer allowed as a source for students at Vermont's Middlebury College.Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia -- but it lets anyone with enough knownledge to go online to edit or add items to its data base. That can lead to more than a few mistakes.Because of errors Middlebury's history department instituted a policy that ...

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The online bastion of information and sometimes misinformation, Wikipedia, is no longer allowed as a source for students at Vermont's Middlebury College.

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MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- The history department at Middlebury College has banned students from citing the online encyclopedia Wikipedia in their research.

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The history department at Middlebury College has banned students from citing the online encyclopedia Wikipedia in their research.

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Middlebury College history students are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers.

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MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - The history department at Middlebury College has banned students from citing the online encyclopedia Wikipedia in their research. History professor Neil Waters said Wikipedia can point...

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When it comes to doing research, many students see Wikipedia.org as a nifty, useful tool. But some college professors believe that it can cause more harm than good.

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MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (AP) -- Middlebury College history students are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers. ...

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While I strongly agree that Wikipedia has not been accepted by the academic community due to its free and open nature and any student who pays attention should know this, I take issue with the resolution to ban it as a source. What are your professors scared of? Please tell me an open source online encyclopedia doesn't actually threaten you.

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While I strongly agree that Wikipedia has not been accepted by the academic community due to its free and open nature and any student who pays attention ...

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MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (AP) — The history department at Middlebury College has banned students from citing the online encyclopedia Wikipedia in their research.

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The popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has been banned as a source for students at Middlebury College in Vermont. The open source, free encyclopedia ...

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The online bastion of information and sometimes misinformation, Wikipedia, is no longer allowed as a source for students at Vermont's Middlebury College. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia -- but it lets anyone with enough knowledge to go online to edit or add items to its database. That can lead to more than a few mistakes. Surprisingly, the Wikipedia Foundation supports the college's ban.

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The online bastion of information and sometimes misinformation, Wikipedia, is no longer allowed as a source for students at Vermont's Middlebury College.

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Middlebury College history students are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers. The school's history department recently adopted a ...

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Middlebury College's his-tory department recently made a dramatic step against a popular Web-based ency-clopedia. The history depart-ment issued a ban ...

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Middlebury College's his-tory department recently made a dramatic step against a popular Web-based ency-clopedia. The history depart-ment issued a ban against the use of Wikipedia as a citation for their history papers.

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By Noam Cohen. When half a dozen students in Neil Waters' Japanese history class at Vermont's Middlebury College asserted on exams that the Jesuits ...

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Middlebury College has jumped into a growing debate within journalism, the law and academia over what respect, if any, to give Wikipedia articles.

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By NOAM COHEN. When half a dozen students in Neil Waters’s Japanese history class at Middlebury College asserted on exams that the Jesuits supported the ...

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Middlebury College has jumped into a growing debate within journalism, the law and academia over what respect, if any, to give Wikipedia articles.



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When half a dozen students in Neil Waters's Japanese history class at Middlebury College asserted on exams that the Jesuits supported the Shimabara Rebellion in 17th-century Japan, he knew something was wrong.



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By Noam Cohen. When half a dozen students in Neil Waters' Japanese history class at Middlebury College asserted on exams that the Jesuits supported the ...

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When half a dozen students in Neil Waters's Japanese history class at Middlebury College asserted on exams that the Jesuits supported the Shimabara Rebellion in 17th-century Japan, he knew something was wrong.



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History profs will no longer let students use the collaborative online encyclopedia as a source in their papers and reports. By Noam Cohen, New York Times ...

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When a half-dozen students in Neil Waters' Japanese history class at Middlebury College asserted on exams that the Jesuits supported the Shimabara Rebellion in 17th century Japan, he knew something was wrong. The Jesuits were in "no position to aid a revolution," he said; the few of them in Japan were in hiding. He figured out the problem soon enough. The obscure, though incorrect, information ...

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Any college student can tell you that the Encyclopedia Britannica has been replaced by Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia whose entries are written and ...

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Members of the College faculty joined students in an open forum held on Feb. 26 as part of a larger effort to discuss the role of Wikipedia in higher ...

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Members of the College faculty joined students in an open forum held on Feb. 26 as part of a larger effort to discuss the role of Wikipedia in higher education. Two presentations sponsored by Ross Commons offered differing treatments of the online encyclopedia and debated the value of open-source technology in academic study.

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Recently, the credibility of the popular Web site Wikipedia.com has been debated between students and professors on whether or not it is a good research ...

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Recently, the credibility of the popular Web site Wikipedia.com has been debated between students and professors on whether or not it is a good research tool. Now, some schools are taking action and preventing students from being able to cite Wikipedia as a source.

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By Nick Day. Wikipedia.org, the popular online encyclopedia, offers users instant access to over a million articles ranging from the Battle of Waterloo to ...

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MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — The Middlebury College history department’s recent decision to ban the use of Wikipedia by students as a primary source in exams and ...

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By Jessie Oh, Managing News Editor. Published Monday March 5, 2007. According to The New York Times, the history department at Middlebury College made a ...

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By Matt Deegan. University of Virginia English professor John Sullivan, who also teaches courses in mass media and American culture, is skeptical of ...

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If Thomas Jefferson had a computer, would he have used Wikipedia to research John Locke? Local Virginia academics today have mixed feelings on the online encyclopedia that can be edited by any Web visitor at any time. Some see it as a fresh, more democratic way to collect information that Jefferson would champion; others are more skeptical of it.

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Daffy Duck had a hand in secretly selling guns to Iran in the 1980s. At least that's what a teaching assistant in UF's history department learned while browsing Wikipedia.org.

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AMES, Iowa - When the average college student needs information fast, there aren't many better places to find it than Wikipedia.com. ...

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AMES, Iowa - When the average college student needs information fast, there aren't many better places to find it than Wikipedia.com. With useful entries on everything from Chuck Norris to Liechtenstein to the Iowa State Daily, "the free encyclopedia" can be an invaluable resource.

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