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  2. Wikipedia:Handling primary, secondary and tertiary sources ...

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    An account of a traffic accident written by a witness is a primary source of information about the accident. Historical documents such as diaries are primary sources. [3] Secondary sources are at least one step removed from an event. They rely for their material on primary sources, often making analytic, synthetic, interpretive, explanatory, or ...

  3. Wikipedia:Attribution/FAQ - Wikipedia

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    Secondary sources are documents or people that summarize other material, usually primary source material. They are academics, journalists, and other researchers, and the papers and books they produce. A theologian's account of what the Bible says is a secondary source. A sociologist thesis based on his research of primary sources is a secondary ...

  4. Wikipedia : No original research/PSTS

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    They rely on primary sources for their material, making analytic or evaluative claims about them. [d] For example, a review article that analyzes research papers in a field is a secondary source for the research. [e] Whether a source is primary or secondary depends on context. A book by a military historian about the Second World War might be a ...

  5. Help:How to mine a source - Wikipedia

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    The claim you want to cite is a novel conclusion reached by the author of the piece; this makes it a primary source for that claim. In peer-reviewed journals, such material mostly takes the form of the newly-collected data and results/conclusions material in the article or paper (and the summary of this material in the abstract); there may be ...

  6. Wikipedia:Attribution - Wikipedia

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    An eyewitness account of a traffic accident and the White House's official text of a president's speech are primary sources. Primary source material that has been published by a reliable source may be used for the purposes of attribution on Wikipedia, but only with care, because it's easy to misuse primary sources.

  7. Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources - Wikipedia

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    A primary source can have all of these qualities, and a secondary source may have none of them. Deciding whether primary, secondary or tertiary sources are appropriate on any given occasion is a matter of good editorial judgment and common sense, not merely mindless, knee-jerk reactions to classification of a source as "primary" or "secondary".

  8. Wikipedia:Template index/Sources of articles - Wikipedia

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    This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources. Please help by adding secondary or tertiary sources . Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately , especially if potentially libelous or harmful.

  9. Wikipedia:Citing sources - Wikipedia

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    This page in a nutshell: Cite reliable sources. You can add a citation by selecting from the drop-down menu at the top of the editing box. In markup, you can add a citation manually using ref tags. More elaborate and useful ways to cite sources are detailed below.