Comment by thaumasiotes
1 day ago
The existence of secondary sources doesn't reduce the need for primary sources. Before something can be published everywhere, it has to be published somewhere.
1 day ago
The existence of secondary sources doesn't reduce the need for primary sources. Before something can be published everywhere, it has to be published somewhere.
The CIA World Factbook is a tertiary source.
But treated by Wikipedia as _the_ primary source. /s
it is an official release put out by an organ of the US government responsible for creating intelligence.
presumably their facts are undergoing vetting and validation.
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Not if everything is made up on the spot for clicks and views, which is where we're heading.
The CIA was a secondary source. This bulk of this material is all drawn from other publications. Which you can now access in ways you could not before.
We get it, you can't see any utility in having this information aggregated anywhere in a consistent format.