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Don’t mention Wikipedia in an academic setting. There is usually immense bias that Wikipedia is essentially a pile of trash. These people very rarely know what they’re talking about. The teachers make up facts and the students jump in and bash it. I really need to write a paper on it so I can just hand these people a ten page paper when I hear this annoying laughter.

Make sure that you have sufficient proof and a comprehensive argument ready to challenge the biased nay-sayers, or you will be laughed at. You must show that it is a valuable tertiary resource, and that authoritative tertiary resources are just as inaccurate, among other things. Trying to say you use Wikipedia without having proof that it’s not what they think it is will unfortunately just embarrass you and your fellow users.

Are you a nay-sayer? Educate yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Replies_to_common_objections
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability