Wikipedia's article on Adolphe Desbarrolles, the nineteenth century French occultist who helped popularize palmistry alongside d'Arpentigny, is a community edited reference page rather than a peer reviewed publication. It is reliable for standard biographical facts such as his career and publications, and less reliable for evaluating palmistry's own interpretive claims, which carry no independent scientific verification. Use it for basic biography; a claim about the practice's validity needs a dedicated scientific source, and this atlas's own citation of a 2019 anatomical study on the life line reflects exactly that distinction.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Wikipedia's article on Adolphe Desbarrolles is a community edited reference page rather than a peer reviewed publication, hence the lower tier, though reasonable for ordinary biographical facts such as his career and publications. NotesWikipedia's article on Adolphe Desbarrolles. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about Adolphe Desbarrolles (biographical detail, dates, common definitions), not as the source for a contested or specialist scholarly claim.
Citation
AuthorWikipedia contributors
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Desbarrolles
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (13 claims)
This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Historical Figures, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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