On 13 May 2013 14:39, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:

The point about not citing encyclopedias is really old hat. Once you're in tertiary education you shouldn't cite tertiary sources?

May not be addressed depending on the field. Back when I was doing my degree they just insisted that you cite journals so the issue of primary secondary and tertiary (and to be fair significant chunks of wikipedia are secondary rather than tertiary) didn't arise.