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Please don’t bite me, I’m a newbie!

I’m a university student in a Wikipedia Education class, and I’m currently learning how to contribute to Wikipedia.
I am approaching my subject in good faith.

If you have any concerns or questions, my tutor’s name is Lboikov (talk · contribs). Thanks!

Hey! My name is Naomi Nonogawa and I am a first year USYD student currently studying a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Agriculture)


Tutorial activity 3: Annotated Bibliography

Selected feature article: Lady Gaga

Selected source the article has referenced: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38218247

Reliability + usefulness of source based on:

1) Scholarship (author's background, where source was published, is info within source independently verifiable):

  • Source is found on BBC news website (US and Canada)
  • Unknown author
  • Source explains a TV interview about the artist speaking publicly about being sexually assaulted at 19 and how it led to her suffering with PTSD
    • Artist revealing secret --> TV interview --> BBC article (independently verifiable)


2) Context (age of source relative to topic, intent of information, targeted audience):

  • The BBC news article was last edited 6 December 2016
  • Article includes a link to the TV interview revealing sexual assault of the artist, which was published Dec 6 2016
    • Date of source published is relative to news/topic at the time
  • Purpose of releasing information --> informing audience of recently discovered information about Lady Gaga
    • However, Gaga's news targeted the homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teenagers living in the Ali Forney Centre (NY). Gaga explained to them that her trauma allowed her to understand others --> inspiration to all, especially in the LGBT community
  • Inspiration to LGBT community, however the general public can also be stated as the targeted audience --> BBC news is a world-known source


3) Content (does source omit important details and overrepresent others?, is info fact/opinion, style + structure)

  • Information within the article is strictly factual, no personal judgement or opinion is evident --> especially as there is no specific author
  • Structure of the source is similar to most articles
    • Headings where necessary
    • Images and videos relevant to article
    • Links to other websites/sources in paragraphs
  • Article does not disregard important details. Since it is quite a short article, and with one relative topic, components of the article are not being over/underrepresented.
    • Everything in the article is briefly explained rather than going more in depth in some points than others