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  2. Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources - Wikipedia

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    This means that novels, plays, paintings, sculptures, and such are always primary sources. Statements made by or works written by the artists about their artwork might be primary or secondary. Critiques and reviews by art critics are usually considered secondary sources, although exceptions exist.

  3. Wikipedia : Primary Secondary and Tertiary Sources

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    Secondary sources are accounts at least one step removed from an event or body of primary-source material and may include an interpretation, analysis, or synthetic claims about the subject. [2] Secondary sources may draw on primary sources and other secondary sources to create a general overview; or to make analytic or synthetic claims. [3] [4]

  4. Wikipedia:Evaluating sources - Wikipedia

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    Sources of information are commonly categorized as primary, secondary, or tertiary sources.In brief, a primary source is one close to the event with firsthand knowledge (for example, an eyewitness); a secondary source is at least one step removed (for example, a book about an event written by someone not involved in it); and a tertiary source is an encyclopaedia or textbook that provides a ...

  5. Secondary source - Wikipedia

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    A secondary source is one that gives information about a primary source. In a secondary source, the original information is selected, modified and arranged in a suitable format. Secondary sources involve generalization, analysis, interpretation, or evaluation of the original information. The most accurate classification for any given source is ...

  6. Wikipedia:Identifying and using tertiary sources - Wikipedia

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    The medium is not the message; source evaluation is an evaluation of content, not publication format. Sometimes high-quality, generally tertiary individual sources are also primary or secondary sources for some material. Two examples are etymological research that is the original work of a dictionary's staff (primary); and analytical not just regurgitative material in a topical encycl

  7. Wikipedia:Classification of sources - Wikipedia

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    An encyclopedia about a fictional universe is a secondary source as to the works of fiction defining that fictional universe. Some secondary sources, such as textbooks and treatises, are further described as tertiary sources. However, the tertiary source concept is not as significant and clear-cut as the others, and the category has less ...

  8. Wikipedia:Verifiability

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    Short URL. w.wiki/FVY. In the English Wikipedia, verifiability means people using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source. Its content is determined by previously published information rather than editors' beliefs, opinions, experiences, or previously unpublished ideas or information.

  9. Infrared spectroscopy correlation table - Wikipedia

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    An infrared spectroscopy correlation table (or table of infrared absorption frequencies) is a list of absorption peaks and frequencies, typically reported in wavenumber, for common types of molecular bonds and functional groups. [ 1 ][ 2 ] In physical and analytical chemistry, infrared spectroscopy (IR spectroscopy) is a technique used to ...