Thanks, Andy. But I think Merilee appropriately clarified that the policy is about internal citations - not suggesting that other publications cannot cite or should not cite Wikipedia.
KD
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 3:09 PM Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 20:04, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
does it do Wikipedia any good to be pushing the idea that it's a bad
source?
This is a matter that you could raise on the talk page of the Wikipedia policy concerned.
Apologies, I meant to include the URL;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia
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