One time earlier in this semester, I had a journalism teacher ask us to tell him what resources we used to do research for papers, then explain why we used them. So I printed this picture and submitted it. When the professor questioned me about it, I said that as he told us, our job as a journalist is to report the truth, and I was doing just that. He was like Finnegan, you're going places kid.
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That appears to be a good answer. He would have done you a favor if he warned you that while most stuff there is pretty good you have to be careful about self-serving articles. Generally their editors or other readers pick up bad stuff but not always. I have seen stuff there that was inaccurate, self-serving, politically motivated or otherwise questionable, the sort of "fake news" that journalists might resist. [disclosure: I'm a writer.]
@Humanist321: Teachers have been warning us about Wikipedia for years. My professor likes to joke around quite a bit since it is an introductory course, so I figured he would appreciate a little humor.
