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Afraid some of the articles in Wikipedia aren't rigorously reviewed and edited? Some aren't. Some are far more rigorous than any K-12 textbooks you'll encounter in your lifetime. (It would be quite an eye opener for many educators if they ever had dealings with a book editor or two or took part in an "expert" review process.)
Wikipedia is one of the most useful repositories of human knowledge ever conceived, let alone implemented, and it's expanding all the time. It can be abused, yes, and and viewed with an uncritical eye by trusting students. But those problems are corrected easily enough (maybe, for example, by not assigning homework that begs for lazy answers).
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