This is why your elementary school teacher didn't accept Wikipedia as a source. Actually, is that still a thing in schools? It's honestly infuriating to see how normalized it's becoming to use Wikipedia as a source of absolute unbiased truth is especially for the things the West hates. You give someone on Lemmy ten different primary sources and they go "duuh Wikipedia says you're wrong" which gets you ratioed to hell and back. And if you point out the glaring issues with Wikipedia they just accuse you of being a Chinese bot because they can't even fathom how Wikipedia can possibly not be reliable.
Also, the people defending Wikipedia usually use the argument that it uses a lot of primary sources. Great! Cite those sources then, not Wikipedia. It's not a substitute for primary sources just because it uses them. Actually look through the sources vs the article body and you'll find TONS of citations on Wikipedia where the source material is misinterpreted, out of context, doesn't even mention the topic, or even straight up contradicts the claim being cited. Weirdly enough those kinds of mistakes don't get moderated nearly as often when they're in line with Western propaganda vs a rebuttal to it, wonder why.