Wikipedia's article on William Lilly, the seventeenth century English astrologer, is a community edited reference page rather than a peer reviewed publication. It is reliable for standard biographical facts such as his career during the English Civil War period and his major published works, and less reliable for evaluating specific claims made within his own astrological predictions, several of which later commentators have disputed as retrospectively reinterpreted. Use it for basic biography; a claim about a specific prediction's accuracy needs a dedicated historical source examining the original text.
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Reliability Tier3
Wikipedia's article on William Lilly 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 during the English Civil War period. NotesWikipedia's article on William Lilly. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about William Lilly (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/William_Lilly
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (21 claims)
This source backs 21 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Historical Figures, 14 claims: 13 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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