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This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro If you would like to sponsor Goanet's operations contact: Herman Carneiro - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Collage bans students from citing WIKIPEDIA I Came across this article on INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, Published on February, 22nd, 2007 and I wonder how true it is and I hope Fred our good correspondent who mostly cites Wikipedia can tell if its true.:-) After finding a significant number of errors in tests and research, the history dept at Middlebury College in Vermont notified its students this month that Wikipeidia could not be cited in papers or exams, and that students could not "point to Wikipeidia or any similar source that may appear in the future to escape the consequences of errors" With the move, Middlebury, in Vermont, jumped into a growing debate within journalism, the law and academia over what respect, if any, to give Wikipedia articles, which are written by hundreds of volunteers and subject to mistakes and sometimes deliberate falsehoods. Cheers Jerry Fernandes