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Don Fallis, from the School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona, explores the many facets of Wikipedia and why it should studied by epistemologists in his paper entitled "Toward a New Epistemology of Wikipedia." He defines epistemology as "the study of what knowledge is and how people can acquire it," (2) and believes that Wikipedia should be studied by others in his field because of the way it draws users to its database of knowledge. "Why...
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Why You Can't Cite Wikipedia In My Class - Waters
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In an opinion piece, Middlebury College history professor Neil Waters argues why Wikipedia is not a valid source of information for any of his classes. While he values Wikipedia as a starting point for any research endeavor, the fact that the encyclopedia is an open-source platform...
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