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Wikipedia Assignment One
Monday, September 30th, 2013

Reference 1

LIB2002_400

Wikipedia Citations
"Garden of Eden." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 26 Sep. 2013. Web. 30 Sep. 2013. www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Eden

"Adam and Eve." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 28 Sep. 2013. Web. 30 Sep. 2013. www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve

"Lilith." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 24 Sep. 2013. Web. 30 Sep. 2013. www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith

"Lucifer." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 29 Sep. 2013. Web. 30 Sep. 2013. www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer

Britannica Encyclopaedia Citations
"Garden of Eden." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2013. Web. 29 Sep. 2013. .

"Adam and Eve." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2013. Web. 29 Sep. 2013. .

"Lilith." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2013. Web. 29 Sep. 2013..

"Lucifer." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2013. Web. 29 Sep. 2013. .

Decision Process
Picking a topic wasn't an easy thing. Due to the amount of freedom I was giving in picking a topic my head started thinking that I could do really weird topics like Sailor Moon, Profanity, etc. To come to my final decision on what topics I was going to use, I went to a random topic generator and clicked through several topics before finding one that seemed like it would be interesting to learn about. That topic was Satanism. To make it easier to compare the two different sources as required, I decided to use characters and a place that was talked about in the bible (which sort of relates to Satanism). It helped that I had done a bit of research a few years ago on Satanism and other religions for a school assignment in high school. I realise that the articles I have chosen are not something usually chosen, but I have read through each one and they are all very interesting in their own ways.

Location Process
Locating the articles on Wikipedia wasn't too difficult as I have used the web page more often than not while in high school to use as a research starting point. To find all the Wikipedia articles, I typed the topic I wanted into the search bar and was grateful that all the pages that appeared were the ones I was searching for. No need to go through the messy disambiguation page. Finding the articles in the Encyclopaedia Britannica was a bit more difficult as it was hard to find the database in the beginning, however once it was found everything started falling into place. Most of the time while I was using the Encyclopaedia the first link that appeared after putting the topic into the search bar was the one I was looking for. There was only one occasion with the subject Lucifer where it was the second link.

Initial Thoughts
I noticed that with the Wikipedia articles, there was lots and lots of information for one topic. An example of this would be in the article on the Garden of Eden. There is information on it's supposed location, a summary of the place from different texts, parallels in ancient writings, and even the Jewish apocalypse theories regarding the Garden of Eden are in the article. When I noticed how much information was in the Wikipedia articles, I noticed how little there was in the Encyclopaedia articles. When I looked, I noticed that the Encyclopaedia articles do their best to get straight to the point of the subject and to explain them in a very unbiased way. For the Wikipedia articles that I have chosen, I don't believe there is much of a bias which makes them a somewhat reliable source when compared to the Encyclopaedia.