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How to use Wikipedia as a research starting point

Bibliographies and characteristics tables offer initial source leads that need checking in the underlying works.

Notes

Clarke advises students to use Wikipedia's bibliography to locate books and documents, then read those underlying works. A characteristics table can provide a quick initial orientation when a class or design is unfamiliar. He describes checking that outline against other sources before relying on it. He also mentions finding pictures there, without checking the license of a particular image in this exchange.