I see one major issue with using Wikipedia as a launchpad for research, as many professors suggest (basically, disregard the article, just use it to find sources). Wikipedia likes to ban sources that are contrary to the Western narrative, particularly State-owned media from socialist countries (and extra topical, Russian State media). Like, they don’t outright ban it, but any edit that cites them has a large chance of being rejected, but basically any Western mainstream media, even blatantly false articles that have been debunked, seems to be just fine according to the mods. I don’t care if you’re a socialist or like socialist media or not (I mean, I am and do respectively), but either way you should definitely have a problem with tbis. Banning such media is deception by omission and that’s no bueno for serious research.