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They found that in general, Wikipedia articles were more biased—with 73 percent of them containing code words, compared to just 34 percent in Britannica. In almost all cases, Wikipedia was more...
Wikipedia slants more often than Britannica to the left of the political spectrum. As with other reference works, most faculty instruct students not to cite Wikipedia. But some go further, advising students not to consult Wikipedia as a background source.
- David C. Murray
- 2015
Jul 13, 2012 · The question isn’t whether Wikipedia is reliable. No one with a grasp of the situation contends it is, including co-founder Jimmy Wales. Wales justly observes that serious researchers would be foolish to rely on any encyclopedia.
A series of studies from Harvard Business School in 2012 and 2014 found Wikipedia "significantly more biased" than Encyclopædia Britannica but attributed the finding more to the length of the online encyclopedia as opposed to slanted editing.
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- Birth Year of Ben Turpin
- Buster Crabbe
- Birth Year of Abraham Bosse
- Pushkin in Bohemia
- Manuel Castells
- Nanking – History
- Polish September Campaign
- Invention of The Safety Razor
- Henry VIII and Leviticus
- Tudor Vladimirescu
Ben Turpin's birthdate is 19 September, 1869 but other years were used at various times in his Hollywood publicity material. In the 1900 US Census he used the year "1869", and his death certificate lists his birthday as "19 September, 1869". Encyclopædia Britannica wrongly lists the year of his birth as "1874". The New York Times obituary mentions ...
For Buster Crabbe there is a conflict between the birthdate given in his official documents, and the one used in his Hollywood publicity biographies. His birth certificate and his Social Security application both use the birthdate of "7 February, 1908" and that will be used here. The Encyclopædia Britannicaand the Internet Movie Database both use a...
Research deemed recent at the beginning of 2004 has uncovered that Abraham Bosse was born around 1604, not 1602, as previously thought. As of May 2005, Encyclopædia Britannicastill gives 1601 as his birth year. 1. Corrected as of 2012 (Abraham Bosse 2012. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 14 March, 2012, from http://www.britannica.com/EBche...
It is a basic fact of Russian history that the tsarist administration never allowed the poet Alexander Pushkin to go abroad, a nuisance that he deplored in Eugene Onegin and other verses. Therefore, Britannica's assertion that "frequent guests" of Karlovy Vary included Alexander Pushkin and Tsar Peter I the Great is untrue. --Ghirlandajo 10:27, 16 ...
In its brief entry on sociologist Manuel Castells EB claims that he is an American. Wikipedia notes that he was born in Spain, and has lived in France and the US. (At least one Wikipedia contributor submitted this as an error of fact to EB but it is uncertain whether EBhas, in fact, made the appropriate change.) 1. Should probably change "six month...
Britannica'sNanking History article states: 1. Nanking -- under the name of Chien-yeh -- emerged as the political and cultural centre of Southeast China during the period of the Three Kingdoms, when Sun Chien and his son Sun Ch'üan made it the capital of the kingdom of Wu from 229 to 280. Sun Jian never settled in Nanking; he was the governor of Ch...
Britannica 2001 DVD I checked stated that 'Polish casualties are not known'. In fact, Polish casualties are known since 1950s. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 02:46, 8 November 2005 (UTC)Reply[reply]
EB wrongly credits King Camp Gillette with the invention of the safety razor. The safety razor was invented in the mid 1870s by the Kampfe brothers long before Gillette's first razor, which was patented in 1904. Gillette only made some changes so that the razor could be made more cheaply and the blades were disposable.
According to EB's entry on Henry VIII, he resolved to appeal to the Pope that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon had been against divine law under "the biblical injunction (Lev.) forbidding marriage with a brother's widow". The entries in Leviticus both forbid a man sexual relations (18 v.v. 16) and give the promise of a childless marriage (20 v.v...
According to Britannica , Romanian revolutionary leader Tudor Vladimirescu was assassinated on 7 June instead of 27 May, 1821, the real date. 1. The facts that these dates differ by 11 days and that the event in question takes place in Romania in the 19th Century suggest that the discrepancy is due to the difference between the Julian and Gregorian...
Aug 2, 2012 · As the report notes, the English Wikipedia fared well in this sample against Encyclopaedia Britannica in terms of accuracy, references and overall judgement, with little differences between the two on style and overall quality score. Similar results were found when comparing Wikipedia articles in Spanish to Enciclonet.
Mar 23, 2011 · Indeed, content originating from Wikipedia was perceived by children as least credible when it was shown on a Wikipedia page, yet the most credible when it was shown on the page of Encyclopædia Britannica. The practical and theoretical implications of these results are discussed.
