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FrustratedMonkyyesterday at 2:53 PM1 replyview on HN

It can be both. It uses Primary and Secondary sources. That is why you check the references and use them appropriately.


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TheCoelacanthyesterday at 4:06 PM

> Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published secondary sources, and to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources and primary sources. 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.

Primary sources aren't completely disallowed, but they are definitely discouraged.

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