Meaning
Provenance records where an asset or piece of information came from and how it reached the present workflow.
A practical example
An archive record, original file link, retrieval date and editing history help distinguish an authentic photograph from an unattributed repost.
What to check
A source URL alone may not preserve the chain. Retain identifiers and enough context to investigate the asset if the page later changes.
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
- Primary source
- Secondary source
- Format supplied source records into a credit draft
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