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I'm using a concept in part of my thesis that is not very well-known, so it's good to give an explanation before going through the rest of the thesis. I'm wondering if I can simply give a Wikipedia page reference for it, so that readers who are not familiar with it can have a look at the given page. For example, let's say I'm using some stuff about Quaternions, can I just add a footnote to the page \footnote{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion} instead of repeating the same material in my thesis?

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    I think this is a duplicate, see other related questions: http://academia.stackexchange.com/search?q=cite+wikipedia+is%3Aquestion – agold Feb 29 '16 at 11:32
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    @Ehsan What do you feel is not addressed by the recommendations in the linked post? Can you please clarify your concern? – jakebeal Feb 29 '16 at 12:02

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