Bon Bon: How Not to Use Wikipedia

Today is the midterm in Mass Comm 101, so no medianote. Instead, you get a bon bon.

With the research papers due next Friday, I thought I would talk briefly about citing Wikipedia as a scholarly sourse in college-level research papers.

Don't do it.

Personally, I like Wikipedia and I occasionally use it. But I wouldn't use it for anything more than background information in a college paper, and I certainly wouldn't quote it or use it as a cited source.

Even Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, agrees that Wikipedia really doesn't have a place in scholarly research.

So there.