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I think it is wikipedia's fault, but that it's not far from how it should be. Wikipedia is a secondary source, designed have be a reference taken from primary sources, rather than be a primary source teaching information. It's a weird blurry distinction, but seems to work well. It'd be great to have a pedagogy section that either explicitly linked out to pedagogical primary sources, or a section explicitly designed to teach.



Wikipedia is a tertiary source. Pedagogical resources are also usually tertiary sources.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TERTIARY




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