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Quote by: HelioPrime  I see plenty of footnotes and link to points used. Wiki LSD, or Jesus, or any thing and you'll find plenty of links to articles, PDF's, etc. If wiki uses direct findings from a study then its just as good a source as using the study directly.
Wiki combines a collection of information but it is of course biased by whoever writes it. Letting multiple people add in helps reduce bias. Books written by one author will be of course more biased.
Wiki's biggest plus I think is that everything is under one page. No searching everywhere and needing to be a member to view forums or online articles. |
Merely providing links to other articles is not providing a bibliography showing where the information in the article came from. Using your example of Wikipedia using findings from a study, I would expect to see the cite for that study (and the source for where that study was found) in a footnote or bibliography at the bottom of the page and Wikipedia doesn't do a very good job of that.