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<p>[QUOTE="physics-fan3.14, post: 4550056, member: 19165"]The big difference is, Wikipedia is not, has not ever been, and will never be a resource for original research. It is essentially an online encyclopedia. In the heirarchy of sources, it is considered a "tertiary" source. Primary sources are the original journals, speeches, and historical documents. Secondary sources are the scholarly works or reporting on those primary sources. Wikipedia is an amalgamation of those secondary sources. They don't publish original research, they merely attempt to make existing information more accessible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="physics-fan3.14, post: 4550056, member: 19165"]The big difference is, Wikipedia is not, has not ever been, and will never be a resource for original research. It is essentially an online encyclopedia. In the heirarchy of sources, it is considered a "tertiary" source. Primary sources are the original journals, speeches, and historical documents. Secondary sources are the scholarly works or reporting on those primary sources. Wikipedia is an amalgamation of those secondary sources. They don't publish original research, they merely attempt to make existing information more accessible.[/QUOTE]
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