Wikipedia distresses History Department Middlebury Campus (subscription), VT - 13 minutes ago 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.
A Stand Against Wikipedia Inside Higher Ed, DC - 53 minutes ago 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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Fri 26th January 2007, 8:04pm
University bans Wikipedia-citing papers TG Daily - 41 minutes ago 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.
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 ...
As Wikipedia has become more and more popular with students, some professors have become increasingly concerned about the online, reader-produced encyclopedia
University bans Wikipedia-citing papers TG Daily - 20 hours ago 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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Fri 2nd February 2007, 9:18pm
History department makes news with its stand on student use of ... 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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A History Department Limits Use of Wikipedia 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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Wed 7th February 2007, 12:09am
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.
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.
College bans students from citing Wikipedia in schoolwork 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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Tue 13th February 2007, 9:25am
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.
Middlebury College rethinks Wikipedia BurlingtonFreePress.com, VT - 1 hour ago 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.
College: Wikipedia Not Source for Papers Munster Times, IN - 9 minutes ago 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.
College: Wikipedia Not Source for Papers Munster Times, IN - 40 minutes ago 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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Tue 13th February 2007, 1:45pm
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."
College: Wikipedia Not Source for Papers Lompoc Record, CA - 17 minutes ago 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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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 ...
The online bastion of information and sometimes misinformation, Wikipedia, is no longer allowed as a source for students at Vermont's Middlebury College.
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...
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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College: Wikipedia Not Source For Papers First Coast News, FL - 9 minutes ago 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.
Op-Ed: Wikipedia ban is a slippery slope Middlebury Campus (subscription), VT - 2 hours ago 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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Thu 15th February 2007, 5:07pm
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (AP) — The history department at Middlebury College has banned students from citing the online encyclopedia Wikipedia in their research.
College Bans Wikipedia as Academic Source TechNewsWorld, CA - 22 minutes ago 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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Thu 15th February 2007, 11:41pm
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.
The online bastion of information and sometimes misinformation, Wikipedia, is no longer allowed as a source for students at Vermont's Middlebury College.
Middlebury students no longer allowed to cite Wikipedia ScienceBlogs - 13 minutes ago 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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Tue 20th February 2007, 9:11pm
Middlebury College Levies Ban on Wikipedia Vermont Cynic (subscription), VT - 20 minutes ago 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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Tue 20th February 2007, 9:13pm
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.
College history department puts kibosh on Wikipedia Denver Post, CO - 41 minutes ago 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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Wed 21st February 2007, 5:42am
Middlebury College has jumped into a growing debate within journalism, the law and academia over what respect, if any, to give Wikipedia articles.
A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source New York Times, NY - 1 hour ago 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.