Profs question students' Wikipedia dependency (Yale Daily)

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Profs question students' Wikipedia dependency (Yale Daily), "Emysphilia"?

Yahoo! News	Wed 7th February 2007, 8:19am Post #1
RSS Feed Group: Bots Posts: 5,317 Joined: Thu 18th May 2006, 11:54am Member No.: 193	Wikipedia’s editorial system — or lack thereof — that made his joke possible has professors and college departments around the country concerned that students are citing incorrect information in their academic work. A few Yale professors are adamantly opposed to the use of Wikipedia for academic work, though many of their peers said it has not caused problems at Yale and students said they ... Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...cles/view/19798

Google News	Wed 7th February 2007, 8:23am Post #2
RSS Feed Reader Group: Bots Posts: 3,147 Joined: Mon 3rd Apr 2006, 10:04am Member No.: 94	Profs question students' Wikipedia dependency Yale Daily News, CT - 1 hour ago By June Torbati. If you type the word “emysphilia” into Google, the first link listed is an article on the Web site Answers.com defining the term as “a rare ...

Moulton	Sun 27th April 2008, 4:43am Post #3
Anthropologist from Mars Group: Contributors Posts: 10,220 Joined: Mon 29th Oct 2007, 9:56pm From: Greater Boston Member No.: 3,670 WP user page - talk check - contribs	This is the original story by June Torbati in the Yale Daily News that exposed John Behan as the Yale Wikipedian who wrote hoax articles that responsible Wikipedians were obliged to investigate and delete. There is also a good blog post about this story by Yale graduate student, Sage Ross (User:Ragesoss), who evidently blogs extensively about Wikipedia.

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