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That's my take on using the ''EB'' as a reliable source. Not all Wikipedia articles are as reliable as their ''EB'' counterparts, but many Wikipedia articles include abundant references unlike their ''EB'' counterparts. Wikipedia articles have a more easily determined reliability -- either good or bad -- than do ''EB'' articles. So why should we cite articles whose reliability cannot be measured? -- [[User:Llywrch|llywrch]] ([[User talk:Llywrch|talk]]) 05:48, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|Llywrch}} <small>[Sorry, I've forgotten for years to look at this talk page.]</small> Some of these points are probably worth shoe-horning into the essay. As for your closing matter, I think the answer is that we generally go by reputability of the publisher. After all, most secondary sources amount to monographs, basically, and it how reliable we treat the work has much to do with whether it was published by something like the Chigago or Oxford university presses or by some "coffee-table book" company that churns out a lot of dreck. As long as ''EB'' retains a high-end reputation, the community seems comfortable treating it as an RS, within limits, while not extending this courtesy or trust to low-grade encyclopedia like ''World Book''. (I had that one as a kid, and even at age 8 or so I could tell it was crappy. As just one example, various articles on things like flags, national anthems, etc., intentionally excluded North Korea, Cuba, and other communist countries smaller than the USSR and PRC, for blatantly political reasons. It was literally indoctrinating its mostly young audience to think of these places as illegitimate and not worthy of consideration or study.) <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''']] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] 😼 </span> 15:22, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
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