Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia is not an acceptable citation

Reasons
This essay advises researchers to "cite the originals" referenced by a Wikipedia article, rather than the article — a tertiary source — itself. Good advice, certainly. But one shouldn't do that (in or out of Wikipedia) until one has actually gone to such originals. (See the comment in Citing sources.) Wikipedia can point to valid sources, but can't be a proxy for them. — Jrmccall 21:08, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Very good point. I've changed the wording to make that even more clear.  It's a shame that this needs to be spelled out - my teachers would have hung me out to dry in ninth grade if I'd tried that sort of thing.  Durova  02:16, 20 October 2006 (UTC)