The Wikipedia article on the Theosophical Society Adyar is a community edited encyclopedic account of the international branch of the Theosophical Society headquartered near Chennai, India, tracing its history from the society's 1875 founding in New York through Henry Steel Olcott and Helena Blavatsky's move of its headquarters to Adyar in 1882. Its strength is that a well maintained article on an organization of this documented history draws together institutional and secondary sources on its leadership succession and doctrinal development into one accessible account. Its limit is that Wikipedia is a continuously and anonymously editable reference rather than a peer reviewed source, so it serves the society's institutional timeline well but a claim resting on the society's internal theological disputes or a specific leader's own doctrinal claims needs a source closer to the society's own record or independent scholarship on Theosophy, not the encyclopedia entry alone.
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A Wikipedia reference article on the Theosophical Society Adyar, cited only for basic checkable organizational facts (founding, the move to Adyar, the 1895 schism and leadership), never as independent evidence for the society's teachings. The tier-3 use. NotesWikipedia's article on Theosophical Society Adyar. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about Theosophical Society Adyar (biographical detail, dates, common definitions), not as the source for a contested or specialist scholarly claim.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophical_Society_Adyar
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Helena, Cities This source names Helena directly: "York through Henry Steel Olcott and Helena Blavatsky's move of its headquarters to Adyar in 1882."
This source names India directly: "Society headquartered near Chennai, India, tracing its history from the society's 1875 founding in New York through Henry Steel Olcott and Helena Blavatsky's move of its headquarters to Adyar in 1882."
This source names New York directly: "from the society's 1875 founding in New York through Henry Steel Olcott and Helena Blavatsky's move of its headquarters to Adyar in 1882."
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This source backs 29 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested. As cited relationships: 7 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Organizations, 11 claims: 7 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Articles, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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