WIKIPEDIA is now politically correct to use as a reference resource http://whygive.wikimedia.org/2007/12/07/can-you-trust-wikipedia/ 8th December 2007, ResearchBuzz notes: "OCLC Hooks Up With Wikipedia" . . . " search over a billion items in over 10,000 libraries around the world." http://www.academic-genealogy.com/melvyluniversityofcaliforniagenealogyfamilyhistory.htm#research " Now the xISBN service has been hooked up with Wikipedia! That means you can enter a URL and have xISBN generate a list of related URLs, and then check those URLs against the ISBNs on Wikipedia." http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/2007/12/08/oclc-hooks-up-with-wikipedia/ November 2007, Amazon Kindle, an electronic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle book (e-book) service is launched in the United States by Amazon.com. The Official Kindle product page notes: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FI73MA/ " Includes free wireless access to the planet's most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia-- Wikipedia.org." November 27, 2007, Inside Higher Education News adds, under . . . New Ways to Collaborate . . . "How does the university develop its academic enterprise?" . . . "And now that both Microsoft and Google offer tools that allow students to publish their work -- and edit it, in real time, with others -- the adoption of these Web services presents an opportunity for universities to evolve their approaches in the classroom as well" . . . such as "posting term papers on Wikipedia to be peer-edited by classmates" . . . http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/11/27/email October 29, 2007, Inside Higher Education News suggests: "The shift to thinking about placing the term paper as a Wikipedia encyclopedia entry allows for another level of peer review," . . . http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/29/wikipedia August 27, 2007, the Taipei Times noted: Academics debate Wikipedia's value . . . . . . "For S.T. Huang . . . , associate professor of the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, the online encyclopedia, with its use of the open-source software "Wiki," can be used to preserve "disappearing local knowledge." Huang and some local activists in southern Taiwan have been dedicated to the task of accumulating local knowledge for more than 10 years. He said that Wikipedia will help the team establish a local knowledge database for Taiwan that can be accessed by people all over the world." http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/08/14/2003374123 Earlier reference: A Case Study on the Veracity of the "Wiki" concept . . . http://www.journalism.org/node/1676 MULTI-SOURCE REFERENCE using WIKIPEDIA: Regional Genealogy and Local History Research: Local History and Genealogy Portals to the World. http://www.academic-genealogy.com/regionalgenealogy.htm Regional genealogy and local history research includes: areas, countries, directories, ethnic group populations, organizations, local ancestry and local history studies. Respectfully yours, Tom Tinney, Sr. Who's Who in America, Millennium Edition [54th] through 2004 Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, [both editions] Family Genealogy & History Internet Education Directory http://www.academic-genealogy.com/ Professional worldwide humanities and social sciences mega portal, connected directly to thousands of related sub-sets, with billions of primary or secondary database family history and genealogy records. It encompasses all other key worldwide genealogy and surname sites.