Wikipedia:WikiProject Westerns/Television/Sources

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There are some existing lists of sources deemed reliable through consensus by both the Television and Film wikiprojects. Where you will find information will depend on the type of Western show you are working on. The list of sources at the TV & Film projects will be more likely to provide information on more recent shows such as Longmire. The books listed below will be more likely to provide information on mid-century classic Westerns, such as Death Valley Days or Bonanza. The books listed include pre-formatted citation templates you can copy-paste. They also include links to where you can find them for reference.

Wikipedia prefers secondary sources. The use of primary sources should be minimized. Films and television episodes are primary sources for information about themselves for plot summaries, cast, and crew information, as long as the information is verifiable and without interpretation.

• Plot summaries, and other aspects of a program's content, such as its credits, may be sourced from the works themselves, as long as only basic descriptions are given. Exceptions to this include "lost" episodes (which are not available to the public to verify), for which editors are required to use secondary sources. Any content that is analytical, interpretive or evaluative should not be in the plot summary, unless it is necessary to clarify an unclear or contentious plot point, in which case it must be accompanied by a secondary source - from MOS:TVPLOT