Over the years that Wikipedia has been running‚ there has been a continuous debate on whether it is a reliable resource or not and no one has been able to come up with a conclusion. However‚ there are many people who think that they have come up with a compromise‚ which includes Wikipedia being a good source for basic information but not for the sole information of any given topic. Especially for college students‚ Wikipedia can get tricky in the sense where it is easy to just read through and agree
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Wikipedia as a Credible and Valid Source of Information Muideen Ayorinde MGT/521 April 6‚ 2012 Jim Bingel Wikipedia created in 2001 tagged the free encyclopedia is a multilingual web-based‚ free-content encyclopedia project based on an openly editable model written collaboratively by a largely anonymous internet volunteers who write without pay. (Wikipedia:About‚ 2012) Wikipedia has at least 4.8 billion visitors annually‚ over 85‚000 active contributors working on over 21 million articles
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Wikipedia: A Blue Ocean Strategy Section A: Group 4 Analysis of Wikipedia‚ as a Blue Ocean Strategy Wikipedia‚ the collaboratively edited free internet encyclopaedia is a household name. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger‚ it has now grown to be the seventh most visited website with approximately 365 million users worldwide. How is it that the small encyclopaedia market grew more than a hundred times in the space of 8-10 years and changed its orientation in such a path breaking
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Evaluating the Credibility of Sources of Information MGT/521 November 15‚ 2012 Dr. Scott Goldberg Evaluating the Credibility of Sources of Information Evaluating the credibility of sources of information is critical to ensuring the validity of the information used as supporting evidence for research projects. There are no comparable quality control processes to ensure quality standards of material presented on the Web equal to those for printed works. When debating the credibility of the Website
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Evaluating Media for Credibility CRT/205 July 21‚ 2013 Media Credibility I had chose to watch two of the local news channels to see if one was better than the other. WNEP‚ Good Morning America 8am vs. WBRE‚ Eyewitness News 9am One of the news stories that I was paying attention to on both channels was about three bodies found in Cleveland‚ OH. I found this story depressing because I cannot figure out why anybody would want to kill someone else or themselves. WNEP spent 3 minutes covering
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Is Wikipedia a Valid Academic Resource? Wikipedia is considered a free encyclopedia that was created by the community that uses it and according to Wikipedia founders‚ “it is a special type of website designed to make collaboration easy”. Is a website that is always changing as is always being improved by its users‚ many of the changes occurs hourly (Wikipedia: Introduction‚ 2014). So what does that mean to the academic student? Who is this community? According to the Wikipedia website‚ anyone
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Marciano WK2Assgn Scholarly versus popular writing among accounting articles through various different resources. Researching the popular Wikipedia.com‚ an internet website and the Walden library to do a comparison of articles for credibility. Wikipedia.com is not a scholarly resource‚ on the basis that “Scholarly writing is usually confined to journals or textbooks‚ which are more difficult to find in the market place and are usually read by academics.” In an article
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Why then are academics so wary about the use of Wikipedia within universities? There are a number of related reasons. Before outlining them we should acknowledge that there may be differences according to academic discipline in attitudes towards Wikipedia. Speaking to academics from the natural and medical sciences over the last year‚ it seems that those subjects are less concerned with issues of originality of source than the arts and social sciences. It also may be [pic] and this is genuine speculation
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understand the basis of that argument. Each speaker would want to determine the purpose and align their thoughts and sources for credibility and validity. Communication skills are important as well as determining the proper channels when presenting an argument. Four steps demonstrate how to present an argument fairly for both parties. The argument topic is on the use of Wikipedia. The argument will establish the pros and cons on the use of this online site. Step One: Present both sides of the argument
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Wikipedia as a Credible Source Group A MGT/521 Management January 24‚ 2010 Wikipedia as a Credible Source With the emergence of the internet as a resource center for students a question arises on the credibility of web based sites. In this paper we will debate the use of Wikipedia as a credible source of information. Support of Wikipedia Since navigating the web can be difficult in obtaining information Wikipedia should be viewed as a primary source of initial‚ credible and valid
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