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  2. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a reliable source - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia pages often cite reliable secondary sources that vet data from primary sources. If the information on another Wikipedia page (which you want to cite as the source) has a primary or secondary source, you ought be able to cite that primary or secondary source and eliminate the middleman (or "middle-page" in this case).

  3. Reliability of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    It cited Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' view that Wikipedia may not be ideal as a source for all academic uses, and (as with other sources) suggests that at the least, one strength of Wikipedia is that it provides a good starting point for current information on a very wide range of topics.

  4. Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, a summary-style reference work that does not aim to contain all the information, data or expression known on every subject. Although anyone can be an editor, Wikipedia's community processes and standards do not make it an anarchy, democracy, or bureaucracy.

  5. Criticism of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. Controversy surrounding the online encyclopedia Wikipedia This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: "Criticism of Wikipedia" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ...

  6. Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a Citable Source - Wikipedia

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    In the case of an encyclopedic work, credibility is not derived from an author's or company's reputation, but verifiable information; Wikipedia's hyperlinks and cited works provide many sources that back up the site's information. Verifiable sources are more important an expert's credentials, because, as Bohannon's sting operation showed, even ...

  7. Wikipedia:Academic use - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is not a reliable source for academic writing or research. Wikipedia is increasingly used by people in the academic community, from first-year students to distinguished professors, as an easily accessible tertiary source for information about anything and everything and as a quick "ready reference", to get a sense of a concept or idea.

  8. Wikipedia:Reliable sources - Wikipedia

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    Sources should directly support the information as it is presented in the Wikipedia article. Information provided in passing by an otherwise reliable source or information that is not related to the principal topics of the publication may not be reliable; editors should cite sources focused on the topic at hand where possible.

  9. Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is not so great - Wikipedia

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    Not least in articles about Why Wikipedia is not so great which by no means reflect all the Wikipedia:Criticisms that qualified people have levied on it. Similarly, fanatical or ignorant users adhering to generally good rules to Wikipedia:avoid self-references and Wikipedia:Redirects have failed to recognize the few places where these are in ...