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Wikipedia has been shit for a long time, and it should be banned as being used as a source for anything serious. There are thousands of recorded, proven cases of incorrect and malicious updates to pages on there. As with most things, it started off great and then went to hell.
Remember - the co-founder of wikipedia says that it has "abandoned neutrality" and has been taken over as a tool to push political agendas by one side.
https://londondaily.com/wikipedia-co-founder-larry-sanger-on-his-site-s-shift-towards-wokeness#%3A%7E%3Atext=Sanger%2C+who+co-founded+Wikipedia+in+2001+with+Jimmy%2Chas+become+a+tool+for+promoting+establishment+narratives.
You use Wikipedia as a starting step and pivot from there to the cited sources and secondary sources.
Sure, I agree - but that doesn’t change the fact that Wikipedia as anything other than a link aggregator is trash for anything remotely subjective.