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Shakers (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia, accessed 2026
Wikipedia's article on the Shakers, community edited. Used for the movement's peak membership figure around 1840 and its current, very small living membership as of August 2025. 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 Tier3
Reliability tier 3: a community edited reference article. Used here for two uncontested historical population figures, the movement's peak membership around 1840 and its current living membership count as of August 2025, where a dedicated scholarly demographic census of Shaker population is not directly reachable (a Britannica article on the same subject refuses public access). Citation
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers
Source Typereference
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This source names Shakers directly: "Wikipedia's article on the Shakers, community edited."
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Claims Backed By This Source (37 claims)
This source backs 37 claims across the atlas. As facts: 31 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Denominations, 29 claims: 25 well-attested, 4 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Groups, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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