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Originally Posted by abaya
No. It's a handy little reference to get anecdotal information on a topic, or a place to get you turned on to REAL research (which a Wiki is not), but I can guarantee you that you cannot get away with using any Wiki as a valid source on a college paper, or any kind of professional writing, for that matter. Don't try it.
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It is a good jumping off point sometimes, though--the good articles on Wikipedia have good footnotes, and those footnotes can give a person a good starting place. But it's all in the quality of the citations.
And Conservapedia's citations are a joke.