That justification seems a bit behind the times honestly. We've now seen actual academic fraud on a massive scale with extremely little in the way of a correcti

That justification seems a bit behind the times honestly. We've now seen actual academic fraud on a massive scale with extremely little in the way of a correction to fix this, while at the same time we've seen Wikipedia handle abuse extremely well. The academic fraud is a threat to Wikipedia, more than using wikipedia links is a threat to academia.