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> Wikipedia's credibility restored - The Scribe
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post Mon 27th August 2012, 7:36am
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Wikipedia's credibility restored
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Photo by Robert Solis. Who would have thought it was one of our own professors editing Wikipedia? Wikipedia is almost never used in college papers, as most professors ban the use of user-edited resources. Most believe that the ability of any user to edit the ...



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So, one university lecturer likes it. How doeas that restore its credibility?

“The idea that anybody can get on there and put whatever they want is probably true for pages on Britney Spears but not scientific websites because they’re all policed by people who know what they’re doing.”

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