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  2. Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not - Wikipedia

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    An article should not include product pricing or availability information (which can vary widely with time and location) unless there is an independent source and encyclopedic significance for the mention, which may be indicated by mainstream media sources or books (not just product reviews) providing commentary on these details instead of just ...

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

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    Wikipedia is not a reliable source for citations elsewhere on Wikipedia, or as a source for copying or translating content. As a user-generated source , it can be edited by anyone at any time, and any information it contains at a particular time could be vandalism , a work in progress , or simply incorrect.

  4. Reliability of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Because Wikipedia cannot be considered a reliable source, the use of Wikipedia is not accepted in many schools and universities in writing a formal paper, and some educational institutions have banned it as a primary source while others have limited its use to only a pointer to external sources.

  5. Wikipedia:Reliable sources - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is not the place for passing along gossip and rumors. Some news organizations have used Wikipedia articles as a source for their work. Editors should therefore beware of circular sourcing. [notes 3] Whether a specific news story is reliable for a fact or statement should be examined on a case-by-case basis.

  6. Wikipedia:No original research - Wikipedia

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    Secondary or tertiary sources are needed to establish the topic's notability and avoid novel interpretations of primary sources. All analyses and interpretive or synthetic claims about primary sources must be referenced to a secondary or tertiary source and must not be an original analysis of the primary-source material by Wikipedia editors.

  7. Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources - Wikipedia

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    Among genealogists, a primary source comes from a direct witness, a secondary source comes from second-hand information or hearsay told to others by witnesses, and tertiary sources can represent either a further link in the chain or an analysis, summary, or distillation of primary and/or secondary sources. In this system, an elderly woman's ...

  8. Wikipedia:Independent sources - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia's policies on both Verifiability and No original research state that "If no reliable, third-party sources can be found for an article topic, Wikipedia should not have an article on it." Wikipedia's guideline on Reliable sources states that "Articles should be based on reliable, independent, published sources with a reputation for fact ...

  9. 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 ...