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  2. Wikipedia:Reliable sources - Wikipedia

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    The following examples cover only some of the possible types of reliable sources and source reliability issues, and are not intended to be exhaustive. Proper sourcing always depends on context; common sense and editorial judgment are an indispensable part of the process.

  3. Wikipedia:What is a reliable source? - Wikipedia

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    A reliable source is one that presents a well-reasoned theory or argument supported by strong evidence. Reliable sources include scholarly, peer-reviewed articles or books written by researchers for students and researchers, which can be found in academic databases and search engines like JSTOR and Google Scholar.

  4. Wikipedia:Children's, adult new reader, and large-print ...

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    Exceptions exist. For example, books on relativity in physics for high school students may be questionable but the one written in the 1950s by Albert Einstein [3] was reliable in its time [4] because the author, as a leading scholar in the field, was qualified to ensure its accuracy. What Wikipedia's reliability guideline requires is that, when ...

  5. Help:Referencing for beginners - Wikipedia

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    The word "source" in Wikipedia has three meanings: the work itself (for example, a document, article, paper, or book), the creator of the work (for example, the writer), and the publisher of the work (for example, Cambridge University Press). All three can affect reliability.

  6. The word "source" in Wikipedia has three meanings: the work itself (for example, a document, article, paper, or book), the creator of the work (for example, the writer), and the publisher of the work (for example, Cambridge University Press). All three can affect reliability.

  7. 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.

  8. Wikipedia:Reliable sources checklist - Wikipedia

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    And the article and its links provide a good start in figuring out who the person is. What are the author's academic credentials and professional experience? What else has the author published? Is the author, or this work, cited in other reliable sources? In academic works? This is a rough indicator of post-publication peer review and acceptance.

  9. Wikipedia:Dictionaries as sources - Wikipedia

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    A reliable scholar or publisher then sees this dictionary and adds words from it to a reliable, authoritative dictionary. The sports leader's dictionary would then be considered primary among linguists, and the sports leader's words would be defined in an authoritative dictionary, which is a source that is secondary for Wikipedia.