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Originally Posted by Shades
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.
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Agreed, and the exceptions invariably said that encyclopedias were not acceptable sources because they were secondary source or only provided an overview.
Most of the arguments against Wikipedia are ill informed anyhow. For example: citations for web pages usually contain the date and time of retrieval. If you click on "view history", you can retrieve the content of the article as cited. Very few web sites actually allow you to do that.