Comment by mapontosevenths

> I do think it can be used in research but not without careful checking.

This is really just restating what I already said in this thread, but you're right. That's because wikipedia isn't a primary source and was never, ever meant to be. You are SUPPOSED to go read it then click through to the primary sources and cite those.

Lots of people use it incorrectly and get bad results because they still haven't realized this... all these years later.

Same thing with treating stochastic LLM's like sources of truth and knowledge. Those folks are just doing it wrong.