Wikipedia's own article on Sergei Shirokogorov, the Russian ethnographer known for his fieldwork on Siberian and Tungusic shamanism, is a tertiary encyclopedic source. Its strength is that it reliably records his standard biographical and career facts. Its limit is the ordinary one for a crowd edited encyclopedia entry: fine for uncontroversial biography, not a substitute for his own ethnographic publications or later scholarship building on them.
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Reliability Tier3
Reliability tier 3: a Wikipedia entry, written and revised by unnamed volunteer editors, suited to uncontroversial standard biographical and career fact rather than to his own ethnographic publications. NotesWikipedia's article on Sergei Shirokogorov (S. M. Shirokogoroff). A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about Sergei Shirokogorov (biographical detail, dates, common definitions), not as the source for a contested or specialist scholarly claim.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._M._Shirokogoroff
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (8 claims)
This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Historical Figures, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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