User blog comment:Thor2000/Wikipedia as a Research Tool/@comment-10473115-20150720002434/@comment-10473115-20150720011143

Okay, then we have a common belief. A springboard is a nice term for that. There could be a value for the researcher from the Wikipedia article's reference list, but every researcher should always start by reading the classics of the science and then continuing to the most relevant contemporary studies. I've never done such a research but I know that the Wikipedia can't recommend such a list of the recommended reading. It's not its purpose but on the other hand, any professor or an authority could give you a list like that easily.

I thought that you were giving a warning to the people for not to trust anything too blindly. I also see that much too often and think that originally it comes from the education systems which prefer the people have an encyclopedic knowledge over the thinking of their own.