Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "مصدر ثانوي" in Arabic language version.
[T]he same document can be a primary or a secondary source depending on the particular analysis the historian is doing
{{استشهاد}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch (مساعدة),[T]he distinction is not a sharp one. Since a source is only a source in a specific historical context, the same source object can be both a primary or secondary source according to what it is used for.
The purpose of a secondary source is to make the primary sources accessible to you. If you can read and understand the primary sources without reading this book, more power to you. If you read this book without reading the primary sources you are like a man who carries a sack lunch to a banquet
[A] source may be primary or secondary, depending on what the researcher is looking for.
[A] source may be primary or secondary, depending on what the researcher is looking for.
[T]he same document can be a primary or a secondary source depending on the particular analysis the historian is doing
{{استشهاد}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch (مساعدة),[T]he distinction is not a sharp one. Since a source is only a source in a specific historical context, the same source object can be both a primary or secondary source according to what it is used for.
The purpose of a secondary source is to make the primary sources accessible to you. If you can read and understand the primary sources without reading this book, more power to you. If you read this book without reading the primary sources you are like a man who carries a sack lunch to a banquet