You may have noticed that I am hyperlinking all of the people that I have been discussing to their Wikipedia page. Wikipedia is certainly an amazing resource, and there was a famous study in Nature back a decade ago that found that Wikipedia’s reliability was on par with that of the Encyclopedia Britannica (Giles, J. (2005). Internet encyclopaedias go head to head. Nature, 438(7070), 900–901.).
I personally think that Wikipedia is very useful for an introduction to a topic, but, to get further depth on the subject, one really needs to go beyond Wikipedia and do further research. At the very least, take a look at the sources listed at the bottom of the Wikipedia article. A really interesting and relatively recent article on Wikipedia and how to use and think about it comes from Stefanie Hilles (Hilles, S. (2014). To Use or Not to Use? The Credibility of Wikipedia. Public Services Quarterly, 10(3), 245-251.). It is definitely worth a read.
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