In evaluating the quality of information you use in your academic work, how important is it to you that the author is an expert in the topic? For example, would you be more likely to trust a Wikipedia...

In evaluating the quality of information you use in your academic work, how important is it to you that the author is an expert in the topic? For example, would you be more likely to trust a Wikipedia article on U.S. history if the author is a history professor, instead of an average person? Why or why not?