Question re Hatyn'

[Andrey Shcherbenok]

I believe the story of a non-existent professor at York University is one
more occasion to remind ourselves that World Wide Web is increasingly NOT a
reliable source of information. Unfortunately, it is also the case with
Wikipedia, whose anonymity provides a particularly welcoming environment for
historically irresponsible and ideologically biased writings (cf., for
example, its treatment of the Great Patriotic War in the entry of the same
name). If we want to try to preserve some scholarly standards in Academia, I
suggest that we should never ourselves refer to (or encourage our students
to use) any anonymous source of information in the Internet, be that
Wikipedia or Live Journal.

Andrey Shcherbenok

Columbia University
Society of Fellows in the Humanities

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