When it comes to heavily manipulated "sources" like Wikipedia, I "throw the baby out with the bathwater" (yet another lazy attempt at reasoning is to use phrases like that as justification for, well, anything) is because you cannot see what is not presented in the article, usually in the form of others who will contradict the claims of whatever criticism the page is presenting with equal or stronger sources. Wikipedia guards such open discussion with a lot of dirty tactics which include collusion between article guardians and admins who will have your account locked and IP address blocked from editing in less than one hour of a "violation", and they do not notify you through email of their activities so you have to go discovering what they are doing through their Kafkaesque procedures of adjudication which are decided without any defense from the accused and evidence that doesn't truly qualify as evidence based on any reasonable standard for evidence.
A relatively newer policy implemented through their MediaWiki project is a "feature" whereby an edit can be permanently hidden from view, so future editors cannot go back and see what edits were removed or reverted. This goes completely against the original concept of a wiki and bolsters my claims that Wikipedia should never be used as a source because in the most contentious articles they will hide removed edits containing information they don't like.
The result of this is editors who have contradicting opinions from the Wikipedia-approved opinion will stop editing simply because it isn't worth the effort as Wikipedia always wins (because it is Wikipedia's website).
Wikipedia is a dumpster fire full of bias, pettiness, and structured manipulation. Linking there or using those pages demonstrates laziness and a near complete lack of higher reasoning.