Re: [Air-l] Wikipedia warning -- Wikipedia is not a reliable information source

There are now enough serious incidents of false and defamatory information in Wikipedia biographies to warrant prohibiting this as a reference source in universities and university-level professional schools. The same is true of inaccurate or false assertions in many articles.

I'm not so sure this is a problem. If you want students to start thinking critically then what better way to do it? The problem here seems to be that students accept a single reference as fact rather than go about confirming their facts through multiple sources. That's a not a problem with Wikipedia, that's a problem with pedagogy. Andy