Wikipedia's community maintained article on Yang Xi, the fourth century Daoist medium credited with revealing the Shangqing scriptures, is a continuously edited crowd sourced reference rather than a peer reviewed publication, so no named author or institution stands behind any single version of the page. Its strength is that it is freely and immediately checkable, and for well established biographical facts, such as dates, it generally reflects settled scholarly consensus. Its limit is that it should never be the sole source for a contested or specialist claim, such as detailed interpretation of the Shangqing revelations, where dedicated Daoist studies scholarship should be consulted instead.
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Reliability Tier3
Wikipedia's article on Yang Xi is a continuously revised, community edited tertiary reference with no named author or peer review process, hence the lower tier, though generally reflecting settled scholarly consensus on the well established biographical facts. NotesWikipedia's article on Yang Xi. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about Yang Xi (biographical detail, dates, common definitions), not as the source for a contested or specialist scholarly claim.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Xi_(mystic)
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)
This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Historical Figures, 8 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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