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I disagree with the definition of secondary source.: Wikipedia mostly follows the definition in use by historians, which requires more than simply repeating information from some other source or rearranging information from the author's notes. The earliest definition of a secondary source in this policy was in February 2004 "one that analyzes, assimilates, evaluates, interprets, and/or synthesizes primary sources".
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I've proven that general relativity is wrong, but the physics journals won't publish my proof. Can I use Wikipedia to publish my ideas about how Einstein was wrong? I can cite lots of sources in the article to support each piece of the puzzle.: No. If you want to put a whole idea in Wikipedia, you need to be able to cite a source that contains the whole idea, not just isolated bits of it.

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