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Line 330: Similar more subtle example would be a section "topic xy in popular science" where you write about how a specific topic is received in popular science. Popular science literature itself is now the primary source, as this is the subject of interest in your section. Optimally, you would need another source summarizing different popular science literature, then you can use this summary to verify your section. Of course this would be overkill for some articles, but technically this would be the correct practice to truly get unbiased information. --[[User:TheRandomIP\|TheRandomIP]] ([[User talk:TheRandomIP\|talk]]) 13:26, 11 September 2020 (UTC) :[[User:TheRandomIP\|TheRandomIP]], you're correct that context matters, and it's already in the page. See [[Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources#All sources are primary for something]]. [[User:WhatamIdoing\|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing\|talk]]) 22:52, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

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