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Wikipedia's article on Frances Yates, the historian known for her studies of Renaissance hermeticism and the occult philosophy tradition, is a community edited reference page rather than a peer reviewed publication. It is reliable for standard biographical facts such as her academic career and major works, and less reliable for evaluating the scholarly reception and later criticism of her hermetic thesis about the Renaissance, which specialists have both built on and revised. Use it for basic biography; a claim about the validity of her thesis needs a dedicated historiographical source.

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Wikipedia's article on Frances Yates, historian of Renaissance hermeticism, the lower tier reflecting that it is a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, reliable for standard biographical facts and less reliable for evaluating the scholarly reception and later criticism of her hermetic thesis, which specialists have both built on and revised.
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Wikipedia's article on Frances Yates. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about Frances Yates (biographical detail, dates, common definitions), not as the source for a contested or specialist scholarly claim.
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  • Historical Figures, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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