It's been said since the beginning, by Wikipedia, that the idea is not to cite the page itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia https:

It's been said since the beginning, by Wikipedia, that the idea is not to cite the page itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia > Normal academic usage of Wikipedia is for getting the general facts of a problem and to gather keywords, references and bibliographical pointers, but not as a source in itself. There is always an issue about claim not in source. Often this is a matter of perception and has to be decided by an argument about what the source means, or what a conventional reading of the source is.