re: #160 klys

“Well, if the definition of plagiarize is to “pass someone else’s off work as one’s own” then yes, you can plagiarize Wikipedia unless you are the original article of the article or one of the primary contributors.”

The problem is there is no author of a Wikipedia article. How do you cite the author(s)? Do you cite their screen names, IP addresses. What if the article changes after you cite it. Claiming someone plagiarized Wikipedia is like claiming someone plagiarised the internet. Ideally if you are doing research you would cite the sources of the Wikipedia article (assuming they are not dead links by the time you used them).

But in short Wikipedia deserves no citation, the authors do not expect one.