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Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (Wikipedia)

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Wikipedia's community edited article on the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the Suomi Synod. Its value is accessibility and continuous updating; used here for the organizing date and place, membership statistics and the 1962 and 1988 mergers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Reliability Tier
3
Tier 3: a continuously revised, community-edited encyclopedia article rather than an authored or peer reviewed work, matching this corpus's settled precedent for Wikipedia citations. Useful for verifiable biographical and organizational detail; corroborated here by the Gustavus Adolphus finding aid and the LSTC history page.
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Wikipedia's article on the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, commonly the Suomi Synod. Community edited rather than peer reviewed; used here for standard biographical facts (organizing date and place, membership figures, the 1962 merger) that its own citations and the other sources in this batch corroborate.
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Wikipedia contributors
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Wikipedia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_America
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reference
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This source names Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America directly: "community edited article on the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the Suomi Synod."

Source Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Claims Backed By This Source (33 claims)

This source backs 33 claims across the atlas. As facts: 23 well-attested. As cited relationships: 5 holds, 1 connected. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Denominations, 16 claims: 11 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
  • Articles, 8 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 connected, 2 general references.
  • Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
  • Organizations, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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