W1. Wikipedia: Reliable sources - Woojin J

Summary 

 This reading from Wikipedia describes the sources to be used in the data before editing any material in Wikipedia. The definition of a source and the type of sources are described by dividing them into reliable and pretty unreliable ones.
First, there are the definitions of source and published, and it says that their context and age are important.
Then several types of sources are listed and explained. The source types include scholarship, news organizations, vender and e-commerce sources and biased or open sources.
In addition to these available reliable sources above, the questionable sources and their own published sources are inappropriate to use when editing the data. Examples of these questionable sources are sponsored content, and examples of self-published sources are user-generated content.
The following paragraph describes reliability in some specific contexts. Various specific contexts are introduced as examples. When bringing the sources from the context of a specific situation(of context), it describes the things to be careful about. For example, when using a source from biographies of living persons, contentious materials should be deleted immediately.
The last, it describes the sources that should not be used as sources. Those are the sources which is deprecated by someone. And the sources which are listed up to blacklists.

 What was interesting/What did you learn?

What I learned is how tricky it is to distinguish and use reliable sources.


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