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  2. Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources - Wikipedia

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    The diary will reflect the prejudices of its author, and its author might be unaware of relevant facts. The book and the journal article are secondary sources. These secondary sources have advantages: The authors were not involved in the event, so they have the emotional distance that allows them to analyze the events dispassionately.

  3. Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a tertiary source – describes how Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and as such Wikipedia is a tertiary source. References ^ Bould, Dylan M., et al., References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature , 2014, British Medical Journal , 6 March 2014, 348 DOI , online from BMJ

  4. Wikipedia : Naming conventions (use English-language sources)

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    The title of an article should generally use the version of the name of the subject that is most common in the English language, as you would find it in reliable sources (for example other encyclopedias and reference works, scholarly journals, and major news sources). This makes it easy to find, and easy to compare information with other sources.

  5. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is an encyclopedia; Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view; Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute; Wikipedia's editors should treat each other with respect and civility; Wikipedia has no firm rules

  6. Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    Entry for the French word amour ('love') in a paper encyclopedia (Larousse Universel) and in an online encyclopedia (wikimini.org) Title page of Lucubrationes, 1541 edition, one of the first books to use a variant of the word encyclopedia in the title. An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopaedia (British English) [1] (from Greek ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Wikipedia:Identifying primary and secondary sources for ...

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    A scientific paper documenting a new experiment conducted by the author is a primary source on the outcome of that experiment. Secondary sources provide an author's own thinking based on primary sources, generally at least one step removed from an event. It contains an author's interpretation, analysis, or evaluation of the facts, evidence ...

  9. Wikipedia:Article titles - Wikipedia

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    The article title appears at the top of a reader's browser window and as a large level 1 heading above the editable text of an article, circled here in dark red. The name or names given in the first sentence do not always match the article title. By the design of Wikipedia's software, an article can only have one title.