Talk:Information privilege

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Article Suggestions

Hello, whilst this article is neutral and follows Wikipedia’s guidelines to a degree, the article also has areas where it could be improved. Citation recommendations:

 The first source/ citation is another Wikipedia article which isn’t considered a reliable source.  The definition of Information Privilege doesn’t have a citation/source and doesn’t state who originated the concept.  Instead, citation 13 should be cited when defining Information Privilege since its definition and the originator of the Information Privilege is the author of citation 13.  Citation 13 is underused and tagged on at the end of the article.  Citations 9 and 10 are duplicates.  The links for citations 11 and 12 do not work because the articles are from a database  Citation 4 doesn’t state an author  5 of the sources are from the ALA official website, often talking about themselves which isn’t reliable.  Some of the ALA articles are scholarly, but even the good ones don’t have authors  The citations feel like they were thrown together for an assignment and overall, the citations need a rework.  5 of the 10 working citations are from the ALA official website. The ACRL articles, which are variants of the ALA website are not biased about Information Privilege, but they are biased in how they portray their organization. (Check how citation 9 is used in the article to describe the ACRL, but the definition is from the ACRL website).  The articles also do not state a bias.

Overall recommendations:  Every subsection has relevancy to information privilege, but the articles layout is distracting. The information privilege section of the article is a small paragraph, and because it’s so small the reader’s attention will go to the bigger sections, which are supposed to be complementary to the Information Privilege info, not overshadow it.

 The ACRL Framework section and the National and International Statements sections should be moved to the bottom for better pacing.

 The Barrier to Access section should be integrated into the Information Privilege section at the top of the article. Since the two concepts are intertwined, and one concept shouldn’t be brought up without the other. Also, the Open Access section should be expanded.

 The Wikipedians are unbiased and do a good job of staying in the third person, but most of the sources the Wikipedians cite have a bias towards an organization. The article also has a few attempts to show a global perspective on the topic, but the attempts fall short.

 The citations also struggle with perspectives with most of them coming from an organization, with one source from the United Nations, two articles having white men perspectives, and the rest of the articles didn’t state their authors, cited Wikipedia, or was blocked by a database.

 Citation 5 is a report from 1989 on Information literacy which probably isn’t needed, and in general the Wikipedia article needs a lot of work. From fixing the citations, getting new perspectives, fleshing out each subsection, showing the relation between the Barriers of Access and Information Privilege, and more. Atringale19 (talk) 03:46, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Article Addition Suggestion

Hello, I’m drafting a potential rewrite to Information Privilege’s lead section.

Information privilege is the ability to access information others cannot.{1} This usually includes the most credible, scholarly, and peer-reviewed information. The Barriers to Access include a person’s geographical location, access to technology, access to education/higher education, status, financial situation, among other things.{2} This creates a power dynamic where portions of a society benefit from having access to the highest quality information, those who benefit from selling/gatekeeping this information, and those who are marginalized by their lack of access to said information. {3} Students attending higher education institutions with access to databases are advised to share that information while they have it since when they graduate, they lose access to it. {4} The price for database access on average is over $1000/year for one database, which will prevent access for many. Open Access is where scientists, journalists, and scholars in general are encouraged to publish their work on their platform so anybody with an internet connection can get access to it and so it is free to reuse. Whilst allowing the scholar to publish their work elsewhere afterwards, so the scholar gets paid by a publisher and gets academic praise without restricting access to the public.{4}

2 https://sites.duke.edu/library101_instructors/2018/08/13/information-privilege/ 4 http://openipub.com/?pub=GuerrillaOpenAccessManifesto.html&ipub=-1&ipubid=-1&news=-1&url= 1 https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/16767/18305 https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/09/schools-still-dont-teach-evolution/598312/ 3 https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2020/information-privilege/ Atringale19 (talk) 03:50, 18 October 2021 (UTC)