I've decided to write on the football player Michael Oher and explore his informative Wikipedia page for this media assignment. Starting with the Talk page, is the space where editors discuss changes made to the wiki page such as his contreversial jersey number in the Ravens football team and his GPA. Users discussed in this page have little information shared about themselves and were referred to in numbers rather than a name. All discussions were mostly done during the year 2009/2010. There are definitely a voice of authority in this Talk page who has clearly made many contributions, especially football related content. However, he has the authority to approve or reject other people's contribution to the page and edits with a check mark. The tone is very strict and it comes across that they take the content of the page very serious and that there are no room for errors. Also, they are very judgmental and critical on the information they choose to accept and only willing to change it if there is a good enough source to back it up. This keeps the image of reliability and validity of the information provided for the page so the public gets the least amount of false information. Although its hard to trust this authority who we have no idea who he or she is, believing their judgment is right can only be perceived by checking the sources they use and other material they have contributed to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Oher
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