Wikipedia's own article on Kerry Thornley, who wrote as Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst and co-founded Discordianism, is a tertiary encyclopedic source, cited here for his birth city and parents, named directly in the article. Its strength is that it reliably records this checkable biographical fact. Its limit is the ordinary one for a crowd edited encyclopedia entry: fine for biography, not a substitute for primary Discordian texts or independent scholarship on the movement.
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Reliability Tier3
Reliability tier 3: a Wikipedia entry, written and revised by unnamed volunteer editors, suited to a checkable biographical fact named directly in the article. NotesWikipedia's article on Kerry Thornley, who wrote as Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst and co-founded Discordianism, naming his birth city and parents directly.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Wendell_Thornley
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (8 claims)
This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Historical Figures, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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