Bollocks. It’s not a reliable source and shame on you as a news outlet that’s supposed to deal in factual sources to say so.
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It's quite reliable, actually. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
jul 26, 2025, 6:57 pm • 34 0 • view
"Reliable" until someone edits a page not to be. One of the biggest drawbacks to Wikipedia is (1) anyone can edit Wikipedia, and (2) many edits are not caught or corrected until weeks, months, or even years later, as explored by Kaz Rowe in one of their YouTube videos about "unsourced information".
jul 29, 2025, 7:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Not for anything serious, like academic papers my students used to use it for until I put the kibosh on that.
jul 26, 2025, 6:59 pm • 0 0 • view
it's not usable in academia because it's a collection of sources, not because it's specifically unreliable. it'd be poor practice if they were citing encyclopedias too.
jul 27, 2025, 1:32 am • 10 0 • view
People maybe haven't realised yet where the "pedia" part of wikipedia comes from lol
jul 28, 2025, 4:27 pm • 2 0 • view
I like how you were given an academic article going over how it's actually pretty accurate, which itself cites a paper that was published in Nature, and just decided to ignore it. The key thing, as always, is checking citations, which Wikipedia makes pretty easy to do.
jul 26, 2025, 10:17 pm • 26 1 • view
There's tons of link rot in the Wikipedia citations though.
jul 27, 2025, 12:02 am • 2 0 • view
Yeah then you have to Google and try and figure out what they were citing and if you can't do that you really shouldn't be using it for an academic production in the first place. You always need to check the citations to make sure they're not being miscited.
jul 29, 2025, 8:03 pm • 1 0 • view
That's just it, if this person is only telling us that he makes sure his students cite what Wikipedia is citing that's fine. I'd encourage that. But to tell students they shouldn't use Wikipedia at all is just asinine.
jul 29, 2025, 8:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Perhaps Wikipedia has not become more accurate and reputable, but the rest of the internet has become far, far less.
jul 26, 2025, 8:36 pm • 5 0 • view
Both.
jul 26, 2025, 8:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Your age is showing grandma
jul 26, 2025, 11:43 pm • 9 0 • view
jul 27, 2025, 8:05 am • 0 0 • view
You can check the sources of the articles yourself, Ellie. They're at the bottom of every page.
jul 26, 2025, 5:30 pm • 11 0 • view
Up yours
jul 28, 2025, 7:12 am • 0 0 • view
You first
jul 28, 2025, 10:44 am • 0 0 • view
Gladly :P
jul 28, 2025, 11:08 am • 0 0 • view
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