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Given that the standard for a Senior level class term paper was peer reviewed articles, EB would not have been allowed as a source.
The problem is too many students think that Wikipedia is accurate, and it might be on some subjects but when teaching a class on international conflict you can guess that the entriess dealing with on going international conflicts are not exactly the most trust worthy. People are forgetting how to conduct basic research and are not being taught how to determine if a web site is a credible source or not. I would be fine with someone citing a wikipedia article on grapes but not on the on going conflict in just about any place in the world.
Just because something is on the internet does not make it a legitimate source.
EB had some form of editorial standards and hired professionals to handle updating entries. Wikipedia has radom people on the web who deem themselves to be experts and then people that are somehow or another trusted to review the entries. The standards are different. I would trust an encyclopedia over Wikipedia any day of the week for that reason.
That and I have seen what the Steven Colbert fans can do to entries when they decide to have some fun.
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