Meaning
A primary source is evidence close to the event, observation or material under investigation, interpreted in its original context.
A practical example
An original mission log may document a recorded instruction, but not every later interpretation of that instruction.
What to check
Contemporary does not mean complete or unbiased. Note who created the record, why it was created and which claim it can actually support.
For a related planning or text task, open the source attribution builder. The tool has its own limits; its result is not a measurement or approval of every concept described here.
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Continue: Sources and attribution
- Source attribution builder
- What to record from a Wikimedia Commons file page before editing
- Review individual NASA media credits instead of assuming every file is identical
- Secondary source
- Provenance
- Format supplied source records into a credit draft
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