Starting an essay on any topic with an assessment of just the size of the Wikipedia pages about it really doesn’t inspire confidence that the author’s research

Starting an essay on any topic with an assessment of just the size of the Wikipedia pages about it really doesn’t inspire confidence that the author’s research goes much beyond having brought up the Wikipedia pages and declared ‘gosh, those are long.’ It’s really only one stop short of opening the essay “Webster’s dictionary defines ‘culture’ as...” Then the author makes a weird and baseless speculation: ‘I would not be at all surprised if Banks himself, in the writing of Culture novels, consulted Wikipedia to ensure consistency with his previous work.’ - most of the novels predate the very existence of Wikipedia; a page about The Culture was only added in 2009.