Lesson plan
192.com
192.com is a British company that publishes an online directory as well as information contained within the public domain for the United Kingdom, based in London, England. The company provides online directory enquiries and competes with BT, Google Local, Yelp and the Yell Group (the holding company now known as hibu, as of 2012 ) for the directory enquiry market. It is the market leader DQ for finding people. 192.com contains approximately 700 million residential and business records. Of these records, 200 million come from the 2002-2017 edited Electoral Rolls, though some of these are duplicate records. 28 million people were on the edited Electoral Roll in 2015. 192.com's other records come from Companies House Director Reports, the Land Registry, and Births Deaths and Marriages Data for England and Wales. 192.com also publishes a directory of UK businesses, providing company credit reports, financial statements, employee numbers, current and previous directors, web mentions and county court judgements. Registered users can also add details to any business listings using User Generated Content of non-limited companies in addition to limited companies.
Article summary
192.com is a British company that publishes an online directory as well as information contained within the public domain for the United Kingdom, based in London, England. The company provides online directory enquiries and competes with BT, Google Local, Yelp and the Yell Group (the holding company now known as hibu, as of 2012 ) for the directory enquiry market. It is the market leader DQ for finding people. 192.com contains approximately 700 million residential and business records. Of these records, 200 million come from the 2002-2017 edited Electoral Rolls, though some of these are duplicate records. 28 million people were on the edited Electoral Roll in 2015. 192.com's other records come from Companies House Director Reports, the Land Registry, and Births Deaths and Marriages Data for England and Wales. 192.com also publishes a directory of UK businesses, providing company credit reports, financial statements, employee numbers, current and previous directors, web mentions and county court judgements. Registered users can also add details to any business listings using User Generated Content of non-limited companies in addition to limited companies.
Key claims
- date of foundation: 1997 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- The record states that the date of foundation is "1997". What evidence would count against this claim?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
Bibliography
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375621061
Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.