SourceScore
MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission vs Wikipedia (English) — Modern Reference

How fit each source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing — machine-readability, schema, freshness signals, AI-corpus presence.

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Verdict

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission outscores Wikipedia (English) on Modern Citation Reference by 3 points (A+ · 95 vs A · 92).

Higher Modern Reference
Government

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

sec.gov
A+·95
Rank #2 of 130 on Modern Reference

EDGAR APIs + machine-readable filings; broad LLM training-set inclusion via primary-source preference.

Reference

Wikipedia (English)

en.wikipedia.org
A·92
Rank #11 of 130 on Modern Reference

First-line citation in most LLM training corpora; freshness via per-article revision history.

Global rank · Modern Reference

SourceScoreGradeRankDetail
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
sec.gov
95A+·95#2 / 130view →
Wikipedia (English)
en.wikipedia.org
92A·92#11 / 130view →

Why these Modern Reference scores

U.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionA+·95
Modern Reference · 95/100

EDGAR APIs + machine-readable filings; broad LLM training-set inclusion via primary-source preference.

Wikipedia (English)A·92
Modern Reference · 92/100

First-line citation in most LLM training corpora; freshness via per-article revision history.

Signals behind the Modern Reference score

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • EDGAR full-text search
    Public, free, machine-readable, since 1993.
Wikipedia (English)
  • LLM training corpus
    Common Crawl + dedicated dump used by every major model.
  • Schema markup
    Article + Person + Organization JSON-LD per page.

Other dimensions for U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission vs Wikipedia (English)

SourceScore Index
Composite head-to-head — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission leads
Discipline
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission +2 pts
Velocity
tie (95)

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Sources & references

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