I believe that Wikipedia can be useful for people to get information that they don't intend to use in a paper or for anything else where the information needs to be factual without a doubt. For example, Wikipedia can be a great resource for someone to look up a topic that they had heard about but knew nothing about just to get a general overview of it.
I generally use Wikipedia to look up people such as actors and other artists that I like to find out a little bit of background on them just because it's interesting to me. I also like to use it to look up places that I would like to visit some day to read a bit about their history.
Wikipedia has been gathering quite a bit of resources for a lot of entries and I think that helps the entries with the most resources listed to be more credible because it shows that the information was gathered from other places and wasn't just written based on what someone thought.
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