Wiki

I would not use wikipedia in a research paper. It says in their guidelines that all information on wikipedia must be from a credible source. That means that the info should published in another place that you can use as a source. The problem is a lot of people don't realize that wikpedia is what it is. There are a lot of topics are wikipedia that are flagged because the neutrality is questioned. There are also some articles that are closed to editing. It seems like this is a problem too. Who decides when you stop the editing and when to let it begin again? This probably often happens when issues are in the forefront of current events, a time when lots of people will be researching the topic. If they aren't aware of what wikipedia is they may take everything they read as fact.