Wikipedia prefers to be a tertiary source. They want the references to be to secondary sources, rather than primary sources. "Wikipedia articles should be base

Wikipedia prefers to be a tertiary source. They want the references to be to secondary sources, rather than primary sources. "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." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research