Meaning
A source snapshot captures selected metadata or page content as observed at a recorded time.
A practical example
A record can preserve the listed creator, license statement, file identifier and retrieval date used during an editorial review.
What to check
A snapshot records what was seen, not whether it was true or legally sufficient. Keep the original link and distinguish the observation from approval.
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
- Provenance
- Format supplied source records into a credit draft
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