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Originally Posted by HarryT
The problem for academic use is not accuracy, but attribution. In an academic reference you need to be able to say who said something. You generally can't do that with Wiki, because authors are not attributed.
I'm doing a part-time degree in Egyptology, and we are not permitted to use Wiki as a reference source.
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But you can look up the source of the information down in the references section and use that for attribution.
Most of the time when I have asked teachers/professors, they claim it as inaccurate because anyone can edit the articles, not because of attribution.