This feels like getting taught in school not to cite Wikipedia when the actual digital literacy challenge is deeper— learn where the info comes from and to critically think.
Well you shouldn't cite Wikipedia in your paper for the same reason you shouldn't cite LLMs, they're tertiary sources. You shouldn't cite a paper book encyclopedia either. It has nothing to do with digital literacy so I'm sorry if that's what was taught to you.
You should look to an encyclopedia for information about all manner of topics. Someone did the work of organizing, verifying, and cross-referencing the information from disparate sources for you. It doesn't mean the information is untrustworthy, if that were true the paper you wrote in class would be untrustworthy which is absurd, no?
Exactly! It’s the credibility of the data once cross referenced with other sources that really matters. It could be a paper on arxiv or it could be a 4chan post, what matters is if it checks out.
