Wikipedia's community maintained article on Basil Valentine, the possibly pseudonymous alchemist credited with influential early modern alchemical texts, carries no named author or peer review process behind any given version of the page, and is continuously subject to further editing. Its strength is that it is freely and immediately checkable for uncontroversial facts about the texts attributed to the name. Its limit is that the genuine identity behind the name Basil Valentine remains a scholarly open question the page cannot settle, and that question should be checked against dedicated history of alchemy scholarship rather than resting on this page alone.
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Wikipedia's community maintained article on Basil Valentine, the possibly pseudonymous alchemist, the lower tier reflecting that it carries no named author or peer review process behind any given version of the page. It is reliable for uncontroversial facts about the texts attributed to the name; the genuine identity behind the name remains a scholarly open question that should be checked against dedicated history of alchemy scholarship. NotesWikipedia's article on Basil Valentine. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about Basil Valentine (biographical detail, dates, common definitions), not as the source for a contested or specialist scholarly claim.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Valentine
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (23 claims)
This source backs 23 claims across the atlas. As facts: 22 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Historical Figures, 16 claims: 15 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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