> there are good reasons why universities don't allow students to include wikipedia links as citations in their papers That reason is because Wikipedia is a te

> there are good reasons why universities don't allow students to include wikipedia links as citations in their papers That reason is because Wikipedia is a tertiary source. It's too far removed from a source of information to be appropriate to cite. It has nothing to do with the reliability of the site; it's basically never appropriate to cite any kind of encyclopedia. If there's a specific piece of information you found on Wikipedia, you chase down Wikipedia's source for that information and cite that. If you're using Wikipedia as a general reference, you don't need to cite that at all.