Wikipedia's article on Sima Qian, the Han dynasty court historian who compiled the Records of the Grand Historian, is a community edited reference page rather than a peer reviewed publication. It is reliable for standard biographical facts such as his official career and the scope of his historical work, and less reliable for detailed or contested claims about specific episodes in his history. Use it for basic biography; a claim about the content of his history itself needs the primary text or a dedicated sinological study.
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Wikipedia's article on Sima Qian, the Han dynasty court historian who compiled the Records of the Grand Historian, the lower tier reflecting that a community edited reference page is reliable for standard biographical facts such as his official career and the scope of his historical work but less reliable for detailed or contested claims about specific episodes in his history. NotesWikipedia's article on Sima Qian. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about Sima Qian (biographical detail, dates, common definitions), not as the source for a contested or specialist scholarly claim.
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- Historical Figures, 192 claims: 191 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
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