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An exception to this is when Wikipedia is being discussed in an article, which may cite an article, guideline, discussion, statistic or other content from Wikipedia or a sister project as a primary source to support a statement about Wikipedia (while avoiding undue emphasis on Wikipedia's role or views and inappropriate self-referencing).
(The current list of proposed usability improvements includes 9 separate proposals concerning the text editor and the editing process, so this issue is not unknown in the Wikipedia community.) [1] There may be many people out there who would like to contribute but can't, perhaps especially women – Wikipedia is dominated by male editors. [2] [3]
Information Today (March 2006) cites librarian Nancy O'Neill (principal librarian for Reference Services at the Santa Monica Public Library System) as saying that "there is a good deal of skepticism about Wikipedia in the library community" but that "she also admits cheerfully that Wikipedia makes a good starting place for a search. You get ...
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Research papers, particularly the one research paper students write in their eleventh grade, have always been an integral part of high school education [4].They stress the need to verify information and teach students how to evaluate sources critically, and as a result, teachers have developed various criteria to help students identify credible sources, an especially important skill in the ...
Avoid language and images that make male the "Self" and female the "Other". [7] Researchers have found that Wikipedia articles about women are more likely to contain words such as woman, female and lady, than articles about men are to contain the male equivalents. This suggests that editors see male as the default or null gender, and that ...
A reliable newspaper quotes a victorious athlete as saying "Today is one of the greatest days in my life". Years later, an obituary in another paper renders the quote as "Today is the greatest day of my life". A contemporaneous source makes a claim that is explicitly called out as wrong by reliable non-contemporaneous sources.
A naive editor might assume that, given one slightly unbalanced paragraph containing only a hot-tempered quote from a proponent of a viewpoint, the right response is to find a suitably bombastic (or calm, depending on the editor's preferences) counterpoint from someone who holds an opposite view, and insert a quotation of similar length from that source into the article.