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Clare Hutton, editor of volume 5 of The Oxford History of the Irish Book (The Irish Book in English, 1891-2000) (Oxford University Press, 2011), is at a training session on how to use Wikipedia at the Oxford Internet Institute. This is revolutionary and very worthwhile. I have been pointing out the value of some of the factual pages on Wikipedia for both teaching and research within University English departments. If you are teaching Anne Bronte's Tenant of Wildfell Hall, for example, the page on the Married Women's Property Act i(1870)s invaluable. The summary of what happens in the novel is also reliable, in my view. The verifiable source on which it is based is the text (not a critical or secondary source, but actually THE primary sources). Wikipedia has house rules which value the citation of critical and academic sources; with reference to primary texts (such as novels), a reading of the actual text is obviously a source of a kind.