[Air-L] using wikipedia articles in academic paper

[Nick Lalone]

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>> I suppose this is tangent to the current conversation but I felt it was
>> worth saying.
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> ... or in society at large, to wit:
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> Student's Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspaper obituaries
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> Wikipedia: the encyclopedia can be edited anonymously by users
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> Genevieve Carbery
> Wednesday, May 6, 2009
> http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0506/1224245992919.html
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> A WIKIPEDIA hoax by a 22-year-old Dublin student resulted in a fake quote
> being published in newspaper obituaries around the world.
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> The quote was attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre who died at the
> end of March.
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> ...
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> [The student,] Mr Fitzgerald[,] said he placed the quote on the website as
> an experiment when doing research on globalisation.
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> http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0506/1224245992919.html
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To this, I can only ironically respond with:
Merck Makes Phony Peer-Review Journal
The Scientist<http://www.the-scientist.com/templates/trackable/display/blog.jsp?type=blog&o_url=blog/display/55671&id=55671>has
reported that, yes, it's true, Merck cooked up a phony, but real
sounding, peer reviewed journal and published favorably looking data for its
products in them. Merck paid Elsevier to publish such a tome, which neither
appears in MEDLINE or has a website, according to The
Scientist<http://www.the-scientist.com/templates/trackable/display/blog.jsp?type=blog&o_url=blog/display/55671&id=55671>.


http://blog.bioethics.net/2009/05/merck-makes-phony-peerreview-journal/



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