{"id":8,"date":"2008-03-02T23:23:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T04:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/paleontology\/2008\/03\/02\/wikipedia\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T10:21:31","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T15:21:31","slug":"wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/paleontology\/2008\/03\/02\/wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hear faculty criticize Wikipedia all the time. I have to disagree. It is an excellent first stop on the way to understanding and researching topics in Earth Sciences. Students should feel free to use it, but not to reference it too many times in their papers. For this, they need to try to get closer to some original sources, many of which are freely available online through the library, and others are referenced at the end of Wikipedia articles. I encourage all students to take time and look at the <strong>Discussion Tab <\/strong>next to the article tab. This will let you know if the subject or any of the entries are at all controversial. Britannica is also available free to students online through the library and this is also a good option for a &#8220;first look&#8221;. Beyond encyclopedias, students should just check the library for texts on paleontology and especially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netlibrary.com\/Gateway.aspx\">Netlibrary.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fareastgizmos.com\/entry_images\/1206\/26\/Wikipedia.jpg\" height=\"98\" width=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear faculty criticize Wikipedia all the time. I have to disagree. It is an excellent first stop on the way to understanding and researching topics in Earth Sciences. Students should feel free to use it, but not to reference it too many times in their papers. For this, they need to try to get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/paleontology\/2008\/03\/02\/wikipedia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wikipedia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/paleontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/paleontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/paleontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/paleontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/paleontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/paleontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/paleontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/paleontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/paleontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}