wikipedia is considered untrustworthy for a couple reason.
1. its not a primary source, generally they like you to cite the actual research or actual news report etc.
2. anyone can edit it, regardless of how fast the moderation teams fix things. Wikipedia also doesnt have the same source standards as a college so a bad edit might stay if the person making it sources some fabrication or misinformation that agrees with them.
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then there is the factor of: it puts unnecessary work on the person grading the paper as, since they cant just take wikipedia's word for it, they'll have to seach through the sources listed in the page you sourced to find the actual source for every wikipedia page sourced on every paper from every student. You want to hear your grade in a reasonable time after you turn it in?
Agreed! Use Wikipedia as an idea-source only, Then use those ideas to search for quantified and qualified primary-source material. Simple. Don't know why you got down-voted there @Bethorien, it's not rocket-science as to why it's not considered a legit source by colleges/universities etc...
Yeah, anyone CAN edit it, but there are some lonely mod teams. I added a single sentence, no swearing, no scandalous words, to a stub article that hadn't been edited in 3 years. It was gone in 2 days
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1. its not a primary source, generally they like you to cite the actual research or actual news report etc.
2. anyone can edit it, regardless of how fast the moderation teams fix things. Wikipedia also doesnt have the same source standards as a college so a bad edit might stay if the person making it sources some fabrication or misinformation that agrees with them.
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then there is the factor of: it puts unnecessary work on the person grading the paper as, since they cant just take wikipedia's word for it, they'll have to seach through the sources listed in the page you sourced to find the actual source for every wikipedia page sourced on every paper from every student. You want to hear your grade in a reasonable time after you turn it in?