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[โ€“] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All encyclopedias are bad sources. Be they wiki or not. They are not in depth enough on a topic to be useful in a paper.

That's why you check the sources cited by the encyclopedias, which tend to be more in depth and credible than the encyclopedia entries themselves.

It's not a "encyclopedia bad" problem as much as a lack of going just one layer deeper to get to the data itself.