After reading
Scott Jalchik’s “A Stand against Wikipedia”, I found that some of the educators
do not like Wikipedia to be the source of research works for students. Some think that Wikipedia is the good source
to practice for research for the students but it is not at the university level
for citing for a paper or exam. Also, some of them told that sometimes,
students cited incorrect information from Wikipedia for their papers or tests.
Therefore, some colleges such as Middlebury College plan to ban students from
using Wikipedia. In my opinion, I partially agree with their plan.
As I am a college
student and have done a lot of searching online information, I found that
Wikipedia is really useful. It is useful for general information, not the every
detailed, specified information about one topic. As people talked about
Wikipedia in the article, many Wikipedia entries have good bibliographies, and
even found it as accurate as or more than the other traditional encyclopedias.
However, for some more specific topic, the Wikipedia is not that useful. In my
view, one can see, know and search easily online for something they want but
not in details or in advanced ways. For example, when I was doing some research
for my bio lab, I need to search for many peer reviewed articles. Though I
found it by Google it and using Wikipedia, I could not find the article in the
scientific format. Therefore, I could not make citation with specific facts.
Therefore, it is not useful for the college paper writing about some projects.
On the other hand,
people can get general knowledge about some topics such as person’s profile and
the other summaries of arts, music and so on from Wikipedia. Therefore, people
should not ban students from using Wikipedia but students should be trained or
guided by the appropriate persons to use the sources for their research about
papers.
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