[Air-L] using wikipedia articles in academic paper

[Stefano De Paoli]

Thank you for this discussion.
It has been very useful.
A few conclusive comments are maybe needed.

Perhaps the fact that there is no agreement on how to use Wikipedia,
makes it worthwhile discuss the issue again and again.

What I feel is that if there is no agreement among us, that we are
supposed to be the Internet researchers, it is quite obvious that when
it goes to more "traditional" areas of research there is no acceptance
of Wikipedia at all [but this is probably true for other electronic
sources].

I still feel that there are good and a bad uses of Wikipedia in
academic writing, as also many others have pointed out.
And  I think that it is we - as Internet researchers - that have to
assume the role of tracing the good or acceptable practices for doing
so.

S.

2009/5/7 Nick Lalone <nick.lalone at gmail.com>:
>>
>>
>>> I suppose this is tangent to the current conversation but I felt it was
>>> worth saying.
>>>
>>
>> ... or in society at large, to wit:
>>
>> Student's Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspaper obituaries
>>
>>
>> Wikipedia: the encyclopedia can be edited anonymously by users
>>
>> Genevieve Carbery
>> Wednesday, May 6, 2009
>> http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0506/1224245992919.html
>>
>> A WIKIPEDIA hoax by a 22-year-old Dublin student resulted in a fake quote
>> being published in newspaper obituaries around the world.
>>
>> The quote was attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre who died at the
>> end of March.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> [The student,] Mr Fitzgerald[,] said he placed the quote on the website as
>> an experiment when doing research on globalisation.
>>
>> http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0506/1224245992919.html
>>
>>
> 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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