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  2. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a reliable source - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia pages often cite reliable secondary sources that vet data from primary sources. If the information on another Wikipedia page (which you want to cite as the source) has a primary or secondary source, you should be able to cite that primary or secondary source and eliminate the middleman (or "middle-page" in this case).

  3. Reliability of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    It cited Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' view that Wikipedia may not be ideal as a source for all academic uses, and (as with other sources) suggests that at the least, one strength of Wikipedia is that it provides a good starting point for current information on a very wide range of topics.

  4. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is wrong - Wikipedia

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    It is not until secondary sources are published which correct these errors, that these corrections will be reflected in encyclopedias. In a general sense, a stream cannot rise higher than its source. So too with Wikipedia. In simple English, Wikipedia editors can basically use anything that has a source and is considered credible.

  5. Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, a summary-style reference work that does not aim to contain all the information, data or expression known on every subject. Although anyone can be an editor, Wikipedia's community processes and standards do not make it an anarchy, democracy, or bureaucracy.

  6. Wikipedia:No original research - Wikipedia

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    Source information does not need to be in prose form: Any form of information, such as maps, charts, graphs, and tables may be used to provide source information. Any straightforward reading of such media is not original research provided that there is consensus among editors that the techniques used are correctly applied and a meaningful ...

  7. Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources - Wikipedia

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    An article about a novel: The novel itself is an acceptable primary source for information about the plot, the names of the characters, the number of chapters, or other contents in the book: Any educated person can read Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and discover that the main character's name is Elizabeth or that there are 61 chapters. It ...

  8. Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a Citable Source - Wikipedia

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    Research papers, particularly the one research paper students write in their eleventh grade, have always been an integral part of high school education [4].They stress the need to verify information and teach students how to evaluate sources critically, and as a result, teachers have developed various criteria to help students identify credible sources, an especially important skill in the ...

  9. Wikipedia:Academic use - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is not a reliable source for academic writing or research. Wikipedia is increasingly used by people in the academic community, from first-year students to distinguished professors, as an easily accessible tertiary source for information about anything and everything and as a quick "ready reference", to get a sense of a concept or idea.