A- Group Questions to answer about Wikipedia
1. Where does Wikipedia get its information?
From netizens from anywhere around the world. These people get their information from the Internet, books, newspapers, or any other source of media that carries out the information about that particular topic.
2. Who is in charge of deciding what goes into an article and what gets removed from an article?
Everyone. Everything is written by people from all around the wrold. Anybody can change it, if someone comes to wikipedia and changes something, it shows the changes and the original data, this makes it so that jerks can’t just come and delete wikipedia page.
3. If there is some debate about whether a particular bit of information should or should not be included in an article, what is the process of deciding?
Unresolved disputes between editors on validity of content, can be addressed through the talk page of an article, through requesting comments from other editors or though Wikipedia’s comprehensive dispute resolution process. Thus meaning that each information that is included in the article is viewed by wikipedian editors, and therefore adding unncessary information will be rejected.
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