Today it is hardly possible to make an online search without finding a Wikipedia reference prominently placed in the results list. Wikipedia has effectively become the central directory of world’s knowledge. Read the rest of this entry » Sighted Versions in Wikipedia: A Case of Algorithmic ...
Hence, anyone who feels offended by any content published on a blog, an online newspaper and, most likely, even on Wikipedia can directly request the removal of such contents and its permanent replacement with a “corrected” version, aimed to contradict and disprove the allegedly harmful contents...
Middlemarchoriginates in two unfinished pieces that Eliot worked on during 1869 and 1870: the novel "Middlemarch"[a] (which focused on the character of Lydgate) and the long story "Miss Brooke" (which focused on the character of Dorothea).[4] The former piece is first mentioned in her jo...
American policymakers, including Kennan and John Foster Dulles, acknowledged that the Cold War was in its essence a war of ideas.[95] The United States, acting through the CIA, funded a long list of projects to counter the communist appeal among intellectuals in Europe and the developing world...
By March 2007 Katefan's name was no longer on the Senate Press Gallery list.[73] Second casualty: Wikipedia "experts" called into question, the Essjay Scandal On April 29–30, 2005 a conference ofradicalleftiststo discuss the "real agenda of the Christian right"[74]was held a CUNY. Be...
returned briefly under other user names, but was banned every time, while his page was eventually deleted.If Wales is offering naked pay-to-play editing, the list of benefactors to the Wikimedia Foundation takes on a much more sinister significance – are companies like Boeing, Goldman Sachs,...
(ie., I've seen articles that seem like a long list of citations with not a single sentence seeming to flow from the preious one). [5] When an article can be objective without threatening the views of people it stands a decent chance of being so. Wikipedia is, by its nature, not...
Chapel, part of Middlesex Hospital, after his death, and is commemorated with a plaque near the altar. His death had previously been incorrectly announced in a magazine, to which he wrote, "I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."[125]...
2002: scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Langston Hughes on his list of100 Greatest African Americans.[118] 2009: Langston Hughes High School was created in Fairburn, Georgia. 2012: inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.[119]