(Yesterday at 7:43 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: I only ever look at Wikipedia for the source references, then go all primary, if possible.
Yep, when possible. Of course, many Wiki sources are themselves secondary based on primaries, or even further down the line. At a point it's like digging for truffles with a noseless pig.
That's not to say books are better. You can dig through the bibliography, and find that claim x sourced from book y is based on crap too.