Information Sources (Score 1)

An underlying reason Professors could be banning Wikipedia citations is that information is becoming too easy to find there. The Wikipedia sources rather than Wikipedia article is an easy workaround and a more tactful student would already be doing this. If you want a good mark and things come "too easy" a professor or teacher might resent it so its a good precaution to make it look like you put in an effort on the problem. Obscure references can help with this and an excellent source for those references is the Wikipedia. Google is an excellent source of alternate references as well. "You can't handle the truth!" - Jack Nicholson as Col. Nathan R. Jessep in A Few Good Men (1992) Source: Wikipedia