As a professor, I have found it a fascinating journey to go from telling students "Don't use Wikipedia! It's not a place to do research," to telling students, "Start with Wikipedia! It's a good and reliable source, and an excellent example of collective knowledge-keeping."
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@Pkbwood Wikipedia is incredibly impressive for what its community managed to achieve, but it is not a reliable source, and neither is any other encyclopedia. Wikipedia, like other encyclopedias, includes a lot of nonsense and claims that are not supported by the references. Hopefully you are teaching your students how to carefully check the articles against actual reliable sources.
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