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The Wikipedia policy on this is clear: "Do NOT use articles from Wikipedia (whether this English Wikipedia or Wikipedias in other languages) as sources." from:

by leoxv 6y ago

The Wikipedia policy on this is clear: "Do NOT use articles from Wikipedia (whether this English Wikipedia or Wikipedias in other languages) as sources." from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Wikipedia_and_sources_that_mirror_or_use_it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Wikipe... However, this is an issue to be watchful of indeed, as Wikipedia grows ever larger and gets used more and more. See also http://wikicite.org http://wikicite.org (storing citations in Wikidata) which could help bring in better citation (quality) tools. Scholia is an interesting project using that citation data: https://scholia.toolforge.org/ https://scholia.toolforge.org/

dleslie 6y ago
The problem is, as noted, the meta-circular sourcing where following a non-wiki source eventually leads back to wikipedia. Like dead link detecting, the Wiki policy on sources breaks down when the chain to the primary sources is longer than a single hop.