...If Wikipedia is...a
*starting* source from which you launch your digging, using its article
citations to
ferret out more details, then Wikipedia should be cited, whether you
quote it
or not.
Will Johnson
Exactly. I don't think anything more than a statement that the Wikipedia
article was consulted is necessary, if actual material from it is not
used, but the viewing and reading of the Wikipedia article "to get ideas"
or "identify sources" is precisely the issue. It is the "getting of
ideas" without crediting the source of the ideas which is the issue.
Fred