Why no Wikipedia example
May 13th, 2009 Tagged wikipedia
If your students want to know why they shouldn’t use Wikipedia, here’s a perfect example. A college student deliberately inserted a fake quote into the Wikipedia page about a public figure who had just died – and the fake quote was included in many newspaper obituaries as if it was something said by the public figure.
Kind of amazing when the quote was listed in Wikipedia without a link showing where it came from (usually a clue that the information may be bogus). Only a few of the newspapers have apologized…
| Student’s Wikipedia Hoax Fools Newspapers – Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News – FOXNews.com http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519283,00.html |
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