1. Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding.
"Good" authoritative information. When I ask about the law, I check the law published by the government, such as: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html Other sites are trusted, such as http://www.snopes.com/ If you want to check a site, use another authority, http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp When I wanted to buy a knife, the website was listed as the same owner and address, and google.maps placed the address.
You have to use common sense. Wikipedia is a good site for scientific and historical information, because those areas are heavily peer reviewed. Pages dealing with current personalities and events are more prone to have faulty information, but it is usually fixed quickly. Important articles can not be edited anonymously, and if someone puts in something scurrilous, it is usually removed quickly.
wickipedia is generally not the best place for information pretty much anyone can write anything they want on that sight, like if i really wanted to i could on the page for benjamin franklin and put my name down as his assistant haha so i dont recomend that unless its a last resort. On most websites if you scroll down to the bottom of the page there should be a link or something that gives info on who wrote it where they got the info, the master webpage etc. If this is for school i would recomend asking your teacher, not only will they be able to help you itll show that your really focused on doing your work right! :) i hope i helped!!
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Authoritative
1. Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding.
"Good" authoritative information. When I ask about the law, I check the law published by the government, such as: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html Other sites are trusted, such as http://www.snopes.com/ If you want to check a site, use another authority, http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp When I wanted to buy a knife, the website was listed as the same owner and address, and google.maps placed the address.
You have to use common sense. Wikipedia is a good site for scientific and historical information, because those areas are heavily peer reviewed. Pages dealing with current personalities and events are more prone to have faulty information, but it is usually fixed quickly. Important articles can not be edited anonymously, and if someone puts in something scurrilous, it is usually removed quickly.
wickipedia is generally not the best place for information pretty much anyone can write anything they want on that sight, like if i really wanted to i could on the page for benjamin franklin and put my name down as his assistant haha so i dont recomend that unless its a last resort. On most websites if you scroll down to the bottom of the page there should be a link or something that gives info on who wrote it where they got the info, the master webpage etc. If this is for school i would recomend asking your teacher, not only will they be able to help you itll show that your really focused on doing your work right! :) i hope i helped!!