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Yahlia wrote:

Smells more like Wikipedia covering their bases. One should always compare articles, but as a general rule, Wikipedia itself is a useful tool for understanding the basic information of a topic, and its own sources cited can be used for a more in-depth understand. Discrediting the entire website is doing the team at the Wikimedia Foundation a disservice

Tell that to teachers. They won't listen.

I do think you at least need to be careful what you are reading and fact check it every so often because there are many wikipedia articles that I've had to double check for incorrect information like dates and years etc.

Although I do think it is useful for a general knowledge of a topic. I mean, how do you think I found out about "The Great Game" where Britain and Russia tried to stop each other from conquering Afghanistan?