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Everybody uses Wikipedia, the same way everybody uses a search engine or Google scholar. Its is a tool, that helps you find primary sources for your research. Tools are not referenced in your source list. 
Every Wikipedia article has a source list. Those are the ones you should use in your research, not Wikipedia itself. Wikipedia summarises things, but does not add anything new to a topic.
Hope that helps :)
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nobody references Wikipedia because heavily instructed not to >

If only we'd be allowed >

LPT: Use Wikipedia and then scroll to the bottom of the article and cite the same sources they do.