[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's provable anti-expertise bias

[Tony Sidaway]

Isn't this whole argument about academic institutions penalizing
people for citing encyclopedias missing the point?

If the Wikipedia article is any good it should cite sources, and if
you're at a university you have access to those sources and should
check them and cite those where appropriate.

Suppose two of my students turn in  essays on the Milgram experiment,
one citing Wikipedia as the source and obviously relying on the
Wikipedia article on that experiment, the other citing Milgram's paper
and Blass' fairly recent critiques, and demonstrating a knowledge of
the material. Well odds are that both went to Wikipedia first, but the
second one actually did his homework.