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RE: Metropolitan Destinations That Straddle International Borders :
"Albeit Wikipedia"
On a tourism discussion group the question below was asked and an
excellent response provided perhaps the only source out there with an
answer, perhaps there are other sources of this information, perhaps not.
The key fact is that an apology of sorts was needed for this information
as the answer provided came from the black sheep of academic knowledge in
the minds of many academicians. DO NOT USE THE WIKIPEDIA AS A SOURCE IN
YOUR PAPERS. Really?
The Question
"I am looking for examples of major urban destinations that straddle a national
boundary. In North America, Niagara Falls is an illustration. Are there other
examples of significant bi-national (border-crossing) destinations?"
Answer Source: Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
List_of_metropolitan_areas_that_overlap_multiple_countries
OR
http://tinyurl.com/z7tkfe6
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First of all, the question is a most interesting one and I am glad a good
answer was found. It is no surprise that the Wikipedia was the source of this
answer. The Wikipedia also suggests vocabulary that could be used in a search
for this type of information with the phrase "multiple countries".
("tourist sites" OR "tourist attractions" OR "tourist attraction" OR "tourist
destination") AND ("shared site") AND ("two countries" OR "dual countries" OR
"multiple countries")
A search of Google Books with that search strategy produces limited results and
offers at the end a link to get omitted results which finds 42 items. The
relevance of all is poor it would appear scanning titles, the closest that I
found in looking was about water management by two countries in Yellowstone
Park
Connecting Place to Practice - Park Planning and Policy Lab.
www.parklab.uiuc.edu/Connecting%20Place%20to%20Practice%20DRAFT...
The two countries cooperate to manage these waters jointly and protect them for
future generations. ...... river with Yellowstone National Park, texts centered
on the Park as a tourist destination are .... Competing perspectives of a
shared site.
http://www.parklab.uiuc.edu/Connecting%20Place%20to%20Practice%20DRAFT.pdf
"albeit Wikipedia"
This is a very mild statement of a much stronger edict heard from high school
teachers and from college professors frequently. I am not advocating that
tourism faculty change this rule for their students, I have actually
encountered quite a few teachers at college who do not want any encyclopedia
cited in student research papers despite the embarrassment of riches of
scholarly subject specific encyclopedias in many subject fields.
http://tinyurl.com/hucsczo
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=encyclopedia+OR+encyclopedias
OR
http://tinyurl.com/z69s42a
OR consider this link from Google Books
(encyclopedia OR encyclopedias) AND (tourism OR tourist OR tourists OR
hospitality OR geography OR places OR countries OR country)
http://tinyurl.com/zqewdas
In all of these encyclopedias in Google Books, no such list of multiple country
tourist sites was found with the search of Google Books by the strategy cited
above.
Encyclopedias and the use of Google searches are the way in which the general
public and also academicians gain a basic understanding or starting point for
learning about an unfamiliar topic. The Wikipedia is probably the leading
encyclopedia for this learning. Would student learning through research
assignments be improved in the area of critical thinking and critical
evaluation of sources if instead of banning the Wikipedia, citing Wikipedia
articles came with the requirement of comparing the articles content and value
with other encyclopedia articles or with the other sources cited in the
research paper?
Actually, it may come as a surprise that the Wikipedia has been the subject or
part of the topic of academic research quite extensively.
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=
wikipedia&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C39&as_sdtp=
OR
http://tinyurl.com/zfba43g
Google Scholar Again
wikipedia AND ("digital humanities" OR "digital initiatives" OR "digital
scholarship" OR "research projects" OR "scholarly research")
http://tinyurl.com/jcxallq
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Google Books
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=wikipedia
Google Books Again
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=wikipedia+AND+
%28%22digital+humanities%22+OR+%22digital+initiatives%22+
OR+%22digital+++scholarship%22+OR+%22research+projects%22+
OR+%22scholarly+research%22%29
OR
http://tinyurl.com/jp6gqxh
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Google Domain Limited Web Search (JSTOR)
http://tinyurl.com/gqdpmta
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Google Domain Limited Web Search (BLOGS)
https://www.google.com/#q=WIKIPEDIA+AND+SITE:+BLOGS&start=0
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Google Domain Limited Web Search (GOV)
https://www.google.com/#q=WIKIPEDIA+AND+SITE:+GOV&start=0
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Google Domain Limited Web Search (ORG)
https://www.google.com/#q=WIKIPEDIA+AND+SITE:+ORG&start=0
Finds among much else
Wiki Education Foundation
https://wikiedu.org/
"The Wiki Education Foundation connects higher education resources in the USA
and Canada to the publishing power of Wikipedia. We cultivate learning that
enriches Wikipedia and universities, creating a world where any learner can
contribute to open scholarship and education for all. We change the lives of
students by helping students change the world.
We engage students in solving real-world problems.
Rather than writing a term paper that ends up in a drawer, students contribute
to a knowledge base the world uses every day. Its service learning with a
lasting impact.
We expand access to university resources.
We believe that access to information is a human right. But large amounts of
information are still bottled up. We open access to that knowledge by
connecting universities, classrooms, and libraries to Wikipedia."
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Google Domain Limited Web Search (EDU)
https://www.google.com/#q=WIKIPEDIA+AND+SITE:+EDU
Leads to this sampling of sources in the search results:
Use Wikipedia Effectively for Research
Should you use Wikipedia as a credible resource
Wiki Workshop 2016 - SNAP - Stanford University
The Wikipedia Corpus - Brigham Young University
Gould Library: Using Wikipedia | Carleton College
How today's college students use Wikipedia for course-related
Wiki vs. Blog | The College of Wooster
Wikilinks - Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory
Guide to Writing for Wikipedia
[PDF] Wikis in Higher Education - University of Delaware
The Authority of Wikipedia - Jean Goodwin - Iowa State ...
Note regarding the use of Wikipedia on this site
Can Wikipedia Be Trusted?
From Wikipedia to the Classroom - College of Computing
Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past
Roy Rosenzweig
This article was originally published in The Journal of American History Volume
93, Number 1 (June, 2006): 117-46 and is reprinted here with permission.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-media/essays/?essayid=42
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Google Domain Limited Web Search (SCIENCEDIRECT)
https://www.google.com/#q=WIKIPEDIA+AND+SITE:+SCIENCEDIRECT&start=0
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Google Domain Limited Web Search (PUBMED)
https://www.google.com/#q=WIKIPEDIA+AND+SITE:+PUBMED
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Temple Summon Search
http://tinyurl.com/jqjo8zr
285,338 results
SOURCE TYPE Sort Order
Archival Material (49)
Art (1)
Article (2)
Audio Recording (1,012)
Book / eBook (39,619)
Book Chapter (17,900)
Book Review (3,900)
Conference Proceeding (17,743)
Data Set (19)
Database (1)
Dissertation (9,860)
Electronic Resource (184)
Government Document (321)
Image (25)
Journal / eJournal (5)
Journal Article (50,912)
Kit (1)
Magazine (9)
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Map (3)
Market Research (77)
Newsletter (4,395)
Newspaper (30)
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Pamphlet (3)
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Patent (1,555)
Photograph (25)
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Presentation (47)
Publication (150)
Reference (3,330)
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Slide (2)
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Standard (3)
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Streaming Video (92)
Student Thesis (42)
Technical Report (45)
Trade Publication Article (3,381)
Transcript (1,871)
Video Recording (122)
Web Resource (7,073)
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
30,293 results
http://temple.summon.serialssolutions.com/search?s.q=wikipedia#!/
search?ho=f&fvf=ContentType,Journal%20Article,f%
7CIsPeerReviewed,true,f&l=en&q=wikipedia
OR
http://tinyurl.com/h97y4zl
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Temple Summon Search Again
wikipedia AND ("digital humanities" OR "digital initiatives" OR "digital
scholarship" OR "research projects" OR "scholarly research")
http://tinyurl.com/zu7pkpg
Leads to this sampling of sources:
Digital Scholarship, Digital Humanities, Digital Initiatives and Innovation
Centers Sources
Debates in the digital humanities
Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics
Defining digital humanities: a reader
Understanding digital humanities
The sum of all human knowledge: A systematic review of scholarly research on
the content of Wikipedia
Common knowledge?: an ethnography of Wikipedia
Crowdsourcing Knowledge: Interdiscursive flows from Wikipedia into scholarly
research
Wikipedia in the eyes of its beholders: A systematic review of scholarly
research on Wikipedia readers and readership
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Temple Summon Search : A Third Time
Limiting the search immediately above to sources with the word Wikipedia in the
title in Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
36 results
http://tinyurl.com/j634bek
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Finally, moving to the home ballpark, what is being said about the Wikipedia
and the world of tourism?
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Google Scholar
http://tinyurl.com/j6cxvds
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Temple Summon Search
http://tinyurl.com/hbtl3l7
164,653 results
SOURCE TYPE
Archival Material (10)
Audio Recording (760)
Book / eBook (36,608)
Book Chapter (10,286)
Book Review (1,990)
Conference Proceeding (9,223)
Data Set (1)
Dissertation (7,866)
Electronic Resource (106)
Government Document (305)
Image (2)
Journal Article (32,352)
Magazine Article (7,577)
Map (2)
Market Research (71)
Newsletter (2,724)
Newspaper (30)
Newspaper Article (54,899)
Pamphlet (3)
Paper (99)
Patent (61)
Photograph (2)
Poster (1)
Presentation (6)
Publication (47)
Reference (2,477)
Report (372)
Research Guide (1,036)
Slide (1)
Special Collection (1)
Standard (2)
Streaming Audio (1)
Streaming Video (19)
Student Thesis (5)
Technical Report (5)
Trade Publication Article (1,662)
Transcript (1,505)
Video Recording (13)
Web Resource (2,304)
DISCIPLINE
agriculture (710)
anatomy & physiology (695)
anthropology (2,773)
applied sciences (942)
architecture (1,239)
astronomy & astrophysics (265)
biology (1,475)
botany (170)
business (10,373)
chemistry (811)
computer science (15,386)
dance (96)
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diet & clinical nutrition (251)
drama (588)
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economics (6,750)
education (8,253)
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forestry (87)
geography (1,749)
geology (528)
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international relations (1,096)
journalism & communications (2,486)
languages & literatures (5,504)
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library & information science (6,055)
mathematics (2,215)
medicine (4,474)
meteorology & climatology (196)
military & naval science (683)
music (1,751)
nursing (537)
occupational therapy & rehabilitation (71)
oceanography (109)
parapsychology & occult sciences (124)
pharmacy, therapeutics, & pharmacology (509)
philosophy (2,393)
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physics (1,347)
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social sciences (4,189)
social welfare & social work (2,524)
sociology & social history (3,152)
statistics (723)
veterinary medicine (102)
visual arts (1,471)
women's studies (1,000)
zoology (267)
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There is a great deal to learn about and from the Wikipedia and
increasingly with the passage of time it is no longer a source that
faculty at high schools and colleges can brush of with a do not use
warning label as there are oceans of knowledge to be gained by student
evaluation of its content for its value, weaknesses and basic overviews of
topics.
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