I taught two sections of first-year composition, using Wikipedia as a class assignment and under the aspices ofWiki Education, at theUniversity of Idaho In Spring 2022.
Wikipedia:Verifiability: "Material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, and all quotations, must be attributed to a reliable, published source."
Added onSt. Patrick's Day: In March 2008, I attended the memorial service of my uncle, Pat Wombacher. His son Dave made the following statement:
"When people ask me if I'mIrish, I say, 'Well, my dad drinksbeer, and my grandmother's name was Murphy, so I guess that makes me Irish." I get to say the same thing, but that my mother's name was Kelly.
"I actually prefer when she watches theSteve episodes." -Donovan Patton, 2nd host ofBlue's Clues, speaking of his two-year old daughter.[2] Personal note: My kids, who watchBlue's Clues daily, actually prefer the Joe episodes. However, my son is definitely OG Blue's Clues; he has no time for the 2019 reboot,Blue's Clues & You!
"All life has inestimable value, even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God’s creation, made in his own image, destined to live forever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect." -Pope Francis, 2013
"I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike". -Maya Angelou, "Human Family".[4][5]
"If there were another man in my life, it would beOscar. Don't tell Luis".-Sonia Manzano[5]
"I'm really part of the first generation of people who grew up onSesame Street. The work ofSesame Street, in its own way, is similar to my work in the sense that [it's] fundamentally about universal access to preschool education and my work is about universal access to knowledge. We both play a role in what I think has become much bigger than the time whenSesame Street started: the world of informal learning".-Jimmy Wales[6]
In the final words of his autobiography,Steve Martin says the following about the internet. He might as well be speaking of Wikipedia: "... I have learned that people are uploading their lives into cyberspace and am convinced that one day all human knowledge and memory will exist on a suitable hard drive which, for preservation, will be flung out of the solar system to orbit a galaxy far, far away."[7]
I thought I had seen it all, untilhere. The edit summary is priceless: "Need reliable source".
In 2021, after Burns appeared in a video celebrating the 25th anniversary ofBlue's Clues that went viral, his bio article was heavily vandalized, even more than normal, but with a new twist: claims that Burns was a soldier in theWar in Afghanistan.[6][7][8]\
^Alquist, Dale (2012).The Complete Thinker: The Marvelous Mind of G. K. Chesterton. San Francisco, California: Ignatius Press. p. 52.ISBN1-5861-7675-7.
^Angelou, Maya (1990). "Human Family".I Shall Not Be Moved. New York: Random House. pp. 4–5.ISBN0553354582.
^Borgenicht, David (1998).Sesame Street Unpaved. New York: Hyperion Publishing. p. 110.ISBN0-7868-6460-5.
^Gikow, Louise A (2009).Sesame Street: A Celebration— Forty Years of Life on the Street. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. p. 303.ISBN978-1-57912-638-4.
^Martin, Steve (2007).Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life. New York: Scribner. p. 207.ISBN1-4165-5364-9.
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