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purposes, or to identify a company's own material as the source for a claim that the company made about itself). The reader should still be very aware that the source is self-published.
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when the author is an expert, and the accuracy is not disputed; rather, a secondary source should be used if one can be found, to improve verifiability and reliability.
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policy (i.e., is permissible to source with primary sources, but ideally would be eventually cited to secondary ones).
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are also relevant, but the link produced by the template goes to that section at the Verifiability policy).
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Why this template exists: Sometimes it is proper to cite a self-published source (e.g. for
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when all of the material cited to the self-published source it covered by
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to flag a source as self-published and thus potentially unreliable, per
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and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's
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