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This! No teacher, professor, peer reviewer worth their weight would accept WP as a source. WP is great for getting a summary of a topic and a quick start list o
by matt_the_bass 7y ago
This! No teacher, professor, peer reviewer worth their weight would accept WP as a source. WP is great for getting a summary of a topic and a quick start list of possible sources. However if one wants to cite something, one should ready WPs citations. Often those are actual sources (though sometimes those aren’t even original sources).
I feel like this is something that I was taught in 6th or 7th grade that all literate adults should learn.
This same argument holds true for most “news” sources too. I would not call many of the well known “News” sources legitimate “sources”. Just because Fox/CNN/Wikipedia says something doesn’t mean it’s true. Check the citation! If there is no citation/can’t be verified, then the trustworthiness is close to 0 regardless of the person/agency/organization stating it.