Updates on out Wiki "Stub"
To expand on what we learned last week about Wikipedia, this week in class we checked back in on our pages that we edited and were to attempt to add an image. My group in particular was shocked to discover that the page we edited was still fully intact. This was shocking considering our topic had to do with suicide and was a very sensitive topic. And in addition, we added a whole other category of information as it was originally only gothic music’s effect on suicide and we added 500 words on how country music has similar effects. We did notice that after we posted, our page was flagged for review. I think no action has been made so far due to the fact the page was a “stub” and not really developed due to lack of interest and it was an obscure topic. We really struggled with adding a photo due to the reuse rules and it seems difficult to keep an image up there unless you own the rights to the image.
I am surprised that your group was able to keep the content on you page with the topic being about suicide. I’m glad that it did though because young adult like us are the group most likely to commit suicide and having that perspective from people who are in it is always valuable. For the picture, there are always so many different hoops to jump through for an image to be legally used on the internet. I honestly don’t know how people do it legally besides taking their own photos.
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