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Or even a secondary source. It strives to be a tertiary source.

• dredmorbius 3y ago
  Quite. (I'd thought of noting that it's not secondary either, decided to keep it simple.) What Wikipedia is generally good at is in providing a synoptic presentation of a topic and identifying sources that document the points, facts, or arguments it presents. I'll often mine it for resources when doing a shallow dive on a topic. For deeper dives, I'll try to branch out further from both those and other points.