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by edgyquant 931 days ago
Wikipedia is not a proper source and I’ve no idea why people stopped considering this and now use it as such. The graphic may be fine, but provide a real source when pushing back against another commenter.
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Pages contain other sources, however, which makes WP a good place to begin research on a topic.

This place isn't debate club and nobody's getting a prize for winning an Internet argument.

No they don’t. Wikipedia pages, according to their own rules, contain secondary sources.
To be fair to Wikipedia, it’s come on a long way since its early days when anyone could make whatever edits they wanted. The most popular entries on the site are very well vetted, though not perfect. Just my 2 cents.