User:Anne drew/Veracity

• Balanced Sampling: Uses stratified sampling to pick citations evenly from the beginning, middle, and end of the article.
• Context: Displays the article text next to the citation to help spot close paraphrasing.
• Compatibility: Works with various citation formats (including bundled refs and {{sfn}}) by parsing rendered HTML.

1. Go to a review page and click Veracity in the "Tools" menu
2. Enter the name of the article you are checking
3. Choose how many passages in the article that you want to check (e.g., 15% or 20 passages)
4. Click Create Table
5. The script inserts the table into the edit window (or copies it to your clipboard)

1. Go to your common JavaScript and paste in the following line:

   {{subst:iusc|User:Anne drew/Veracity.js}}

2. Save the page.

This table checks 10 passages from throughout the "Encyclopedia" article (14.1% of 71 total passages). These passages contain 16 inline citations (17.0% of 94 in the article). Generated with the Veracity user script. Anne drew (talk · contribs) 20:31, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

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Reference #	Letter	Source	Archive	Status	Notes
Encyclopedias are divided into articles or entries that are arranged alphabetically by article name
3	a	books.google.com	web.archive.org
and have evolved considerably during that time as regards language (written in a major international or a vernacular language), size (few or many volumes), intent (presentation of a global or a limited range of knowledge), cultural perspective (authoritative, ideological, didactic, utilitarian), authorship (qualifications, style), readership (education level, background, interests, capabilities), and the technologies available for their production and distribution (hand-written manuscripts, small or large print runs, Internet). As a valued source of reliable information compiled by experts, printed versions found a prominent place in libraries, schools, and other educational institutions.
11		wttw.com
Historically, both encyclopedias and dictionaries have been compiled by well-educated authors, but they are significantly different in structure. A dictionary is a linguistic work that primarily focuses on an alphabetical listing of words and their definitions. Synonymous words and those related by the subject matter are to be found scattered around the dictionary, giving no obvious place for in-depth treatment. Thus, a dictionary typically provides limited information, analysis or background for the word defined.
22		thisvsthat.io
23		alldifferences.com			Not clear what this source is verifying
(the English-language Encyclopædia Britannica and German Brockhaus are well-known examples).
2	b	eiu.libguides.com	web.archive.org
In practice, however, the distinction is not concrete, as there is no clear-cut difference between factual, "encyclopedic" information and linguistic information such as appear in dictionaries.
8	c	books.google.com	web.archive.org
31	b	books.google.com	web.archive.org
32	a	Béjoint, Henri (2000). Modern Lexicography. Oxford University Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-19-829951-6.…
The earliest encyclopedic work to have survived to modern times is the Natural History of Pliny the Elder, a Roman statesman living in the 1st century AD,
5	f	languagehumanities.org	web.archive.org
33	a	chicagotribune.com	web.archive.org
34	a	britannica.com	web.archive.org
35	a	theatlantic.com	web.archive.org
There were many great encyclopedists throughout Chinese history, including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo (1031–1095) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088; the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen (active 1290–1333) with his Nong Shu of 1313; and Song Yingxing (1587–1666) with his Tiangong Kaiwu. Song Yingxing was termed the "Diderot of China" by British historian Joseph Needham.
43		Needham, Volume 5, Part 7, 102.
Thus, it is an example of democratization of knowledge, though the high price of the first edition especially (980 livres) prevented it from being bought by much of the middle class.
49		Darnton, 33.			The source says 970 livres
While it continued to score well in assessments of its overall quality,
60		Thomas, Gillian (1992). A Position to Command Respect: Women and the Eleventh Britannica. Scarecrow…	archive.org
Microsoft's Encarta, launched in 1993, was a landmark example as it had no printed equivalent. It featured around 25,000 articles, supplemented with 7,000 high-quality images, 9 hours of audio files, and 30 videos. After sixteen years, Microsoft discontinued the Encarta line of products in 2009 with the rise of the Internet.
64		mundobytes.com

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