Kim van der Linde wrote:
You went from claiming that Wikipedia was reliable to saying that everything is unreliable. So, the issue we talk about is the degree of unreliability, and my contention is that Wikipedia for a tertiary source is to unreliable to be used as a source for research. Wikipedia unfortunately is often a primary source, with articles that are not more than a first year essay on a topic.
First year essays are not ipso facto unreliable. Many of them indeed are, but that's not *because* of their being first year.
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