Death to the Wiki!

I am as much of a fan of Wikipedia as the next guy. Where else are you going to get up the minute updates on the state of Britney's shaved head or find out who is currently in Broken Social Scene? But I am adopting the same policy, no one should ever quote Wikipedia at a major University.

Middlebury College History Department Limits Students' Use of Wikipedia

"Members of the Vermont institution's history department voted unanimously in January to adopt the statement, which bans students from citing the open-source encyclopedia in essays and examinations. "Whereas Wikipedia is extraordinarily convenient and, for some general purposes, extremely useful, it nonetheless suffers inevitably from inaccuracies deriving in large measure from its unique manner of compilation," the statement reads. "Students are responsible for the accuracy of information they provide, and they cannot point to Wikipedia or any similar source that may appear in the future to escape the consequences of errors." The problem with Wikipedia, in many scholars' eyes, is its open editing system. The site permits unregistered, anonymous users to edit content alongside more traditionally qualified contributors."