Board Thread:Series general discussion/@comment-18014300-20170717032044/@comment-6517-20170717162018

I don't think this is a very good idea, at all.

Wikipedia is, by its own admission, a "free online encyclopaedia with the aim to allow anyone to edit articles." Whilst noble, this very openness also means that it is very hard to ensure that everything on Wikipedia is 100% valid and accurate. The fact that it can be edited by anyone, at any time, also means that any citation attributed to it might change on a daily basis without any of us knowing or being able to control it. This is an issue we do not have with written sources (such as novellas) or video games. Wikipedia is not what I would consider a 'reliable source' purely for that reason - which is the same reason why we cannot reference our own articles in one another.

I think the existing system is fine, otherwise, we're going to be seeing {{ref name="Wikipedia"}} popping up everywhere.

Finally, I would like to point out that our existing sourcing policy does actually allow for us to use a citation in the lead paragraph of an article, so long as the subject of the citation is not mentioned again later on:

Sources must not be cited in the introduction or lead section of an article. Most if not all of the information in the introduction is mentioned again later in the article, and should be cited within the main text. This helps to limit congestion of the introductory text and keep the overall presentation respectable.

If, however, a sourced piece of information in the introduction is not mentioned again in the main text, it may be cited where required.