Do you think Wikipedia will ever become acceptable as a reference in scientific papers?
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No, because it lacks the fundamental requirement for references: who said that and how does s/he know? The whole point about scientific references is traceability: your work is built on the work of others, which is in urn built on that of others... By being published in referred journals, scientific papers have a certain level of built-in repute. But if I doubt something, I can look up the author, see what else he has published, where he studied, whether he is much quoted etc. Anything on Wikipedia is an unverified statement bye somebody unknown. Even at its best, Wikipedia only reports what "everybody knows". Much of what it says is true - but none of it is verifiable except by going past it to the original sources.
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