Wikipedia's own article on Frederic W. H. Myers, the co-founder of the Society for Psychical Research and coiner of the term telepathy, is a tertiary encyclopedic source. Its strength is that it is a reliable place to check his standard biographical facts, dates and institutional affiliations. Its limit is the ordinary one for a crowd edited encyclopedia entry: fine for uncontroversial biographical detail, not a substitute for specialist history of psychical research.
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Reliability Tier3
Reliability tier 3: a Wikipedia entry, written and revised by unnamed volunteer editors, suited to uncontroversial standard biographical fact rather than to specialist history of psychical research. NotesWikipedia's article on Frederic W. H. Myers. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about Frederic W. H. Myers (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/Frederic_W._H._Myers
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (20 claims)
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- Historical Figures, 14 claims: 13 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
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