Reply #72: I, personally,

[melm00se]

think that the library (especially one attached to a university) is a better, far deeper resource than wiki but that requires a researcher to do more than sit in front of a tube and that he (or she) read at a higher level than the 6th grade.

I had one professor say that he would randomly pick 5 papers from each class and you had to provide physical copies of your sources (photocopies for the most part) to back up your footnotes.

I got picked, freaked him out when I told him I used the internet for all my sources (a major league no-no)...until I said Amazon and dropped all the real books on his desk with my little post it page markers all through the book. He didn't even check them but told me to go away (we laughed about it over a beer after the finals)