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Oh, I like wikipedia. But to use as a source when a source needs to be used in an academic (or otherwise) paper is unacceptable. Not because wikipedia is unreliable (though it often is, but that is not exclusive to it), but because wikipedia is not a real source for anything. There is no wikipedia research division. Any finding or statement of fact is not originated by wikipedia itself, so the original source used by whoever edited the wikipedia entry should be checked and then used as a source.
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