Africa Growth Pilot/Online self-paced course/Module 4/Question about citing slides

Let's take questions: "can we cite the presentation slides of a scholar during a seminar or workshop?"

The answer is "usually no". Presentation slides are almost like speech. Like what someone said. We would want to see a written scholarly record. And usually, if the scholar is giving a presentation, their presentation itself, if it's a scholar giving it, the presentation itself, would cite its sources, or would mention "this is based on my paper so-and-so". So we should go and cite that paper. That would be better than citing slides.

We also want to cite sources that won't disappear. If it's a presentation that's temporarily available on the Web, but maybe tomorrow that URL will break and it would no longer be available, it's not as good as a citation that mentions the journal and the issue and the year that it was published, because that is, by definition, available in scholarly libraries and will forever be available. So that's the answer to that.

"Can updating the scores record of a footballer on Wikipedia right after the match be considered too new?"

And the answer to that is: it's not too new if you have a source. Do you have a source? If you just watched the player score on TV, you know they scored a goal. But can you prove it to me, who didn't watch the game? To prove that you would need some reliable source on goals to include that information. And there are such sources! I don't know much about football, but to prove that someone scored a certain number of goals in the World Championship, I guess you can go to the FIFA website? That should have that information. I don't know if there are relevant national statistics sites that could be considered reliable. Again, I just don't know the answer. But if you go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Football, you will find people there who would know, and who would tell you how to cite the latest number of goals. Again, it's not a field I edit in, so I don't really know the specific norms, but my general answer would be you can cite it as soon as you can show that that goal happened. It's not enough to have witnessed it on TV or heard it on the radio. You need a stable public source to cite. (If there's a publicly accessible recording of the TV/radio broadcast, that could be a source!)