What I’m doing is explaining what it is and that it’s a good place to look for background info but that they need to cite the original resources to use the material in their speeches. I’d also encourage them to do this for any encyclopedic sources. I could think of scenarios where it might be acceptable to cite the Wikipedia as proof of norms.

So next week I’m going to discuss this with my classes along with more on source credibility generally.

Any suggestions? How have you handled this? (I’m particularly interested in responses from other Wikipedia contributors.)