On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, "Christopher D. Green" wrote > Inside Higher Ed ran a piece abot this a couple of weeks ago, Here's a > more complete NYT account. > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/education/21wikipedia.html?ref=education > Chris
Allow me to ask an obvious question: If Prof. Water's knows that Wikipedia's entry on the Shimabara Rebellion is incorrect, why didn't he correct it? I believe that a major point in support of using Wikipedia as a source of information is that it has a self-correcting mechanism where errors like the one Prof. Water found can be corrected by the person who found it. So, why didn't he correct it? Perhaps he felt he had no obligation or responsibility to do so or perhaps he felt that making a contribution like this to Wikipedia was beneath him or some other reason. But, given that Prof. Water could probably provide a good factual account as well as provide references to support his account, why not make the correction? More generally, especially for Wikipedia articles in psychology, what obligation/responsibility do we as teachers have in making corrections that are supported with appropriate references? Or is there some reason or reasons why we shouldn't do this? -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Christopher D. Green > Department of Psychology > York University > Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 > Canada --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
