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4. Where is your area of interest and expertise?
	What are you interested in? Search Wikipedia for three articles, that describe a topic which is familiar to you. This could be anything related to your job or profession, or any topic that was relevant for your education or professional training. Or anything else you are interested in or which has a meaning to you. Copy and paste the URL of these articles to the etherpad. Are these articles perfect? Read the articles again with attention to detail. Is everything just perfect? Or is there anything you would like to change? What? This could be something like spelling stile, line of argument, lack of precision facts missing or incorrect Try to identify at least three missing or incorrect facts. If you can’t find any in your chosen articles, try to go to another article about a related topic which is in worse condition and needs improving. Which facts would you want to add or change in order to improve the articles? Give a short description in the etherpad. Published sources We will come back on correcting spelling mistakes and improving stile later on. First of all, let us focus on adding or changing factual information.This is the most important way to improve Wikipedia since it drives its growth and keeps Wikipedia's content correct and up to date. You don't trust everything you read on the internet, and Wikipedia is no different. What makes a Wikipedia article trustworthy is information that can be traced back to a collection of reliable sources. Each statement in an article should have a supporting source. Reference links in the text, in-line citations, which look like this connect you to the reference list at the bottom of the page. Before you start working on an article, make sure you have a collection of good sources. This means, information you wish to cite, must be published in a reliable source elsewhere, such as a textbook, journal or other publication written by experts in the respective field, and published by reliable publishers. This will ensure that anyone will be able to understand, how a particular piece of information became part of the article text. Also, referring to sources will enable the reader to make his own judgement about the reliability of any information. For details, have a look at Wikipedia:Verifiability. Remember the facts you were missing in your chosen articles: Do you have realiable sources at hand that contain the missing information? Do some research in your library or accessible online sources and bookmark the respective pages.
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