<p>I never said the "smart" wouldn't think about using it. I said that if people were smart (which would imply that if people made smart actions) then they wouldn't use wikipedia in their papers. papers that rely on wikipedia generally suck. When a professor basicly says "you're going to get a crappy grade if you use wikipedia" that would imply that the paper sucked or is going to suck.</p>
<p>also, reading at least the first article (i wasn't going to read all 4) i notice 1 quote - “I will use Wikipedia if I need to look up an equation or if I want to get background information before starting my research, but I wouldn’t ever cite it in a paper" - BINGO thats how you use it.</p>