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Wikipedia does not conduct scientific research or fact-finding. It's only a publisher. It routinely sources citations from books, journals and other sources, many of them produced by members of the "global academic, scientfic ... community"

Without those sources Wikipedia would have relatively little value, except to quote and cite to web pages

In many (most) fieds, web pages are not a substitute for scientific journals or books from academic publishers

>>1vuio0+(OP)
I don't see that any different from saying "bloggers have little value, except to quote and cite to web pages". Even if I agreed, could we both agree that that itself offers value?

Delivering acedemic results to laymen is in many ways more important than the research itself, given the landscape of social media.