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WP:BLP - rules about living people, and what not to quote from sources. Other essays: WP:Reliable source examples - general issues to consider. Specific questions: WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard - ask about specific sources. However, editors new to a particular topic might not realize some specific major publications are preferred as sources.
Contested material is just material that another editor has made a reasonable challenge to or where sources disagree. (Whether a person was born on April 19 or April 20 might be contested but it's not an ideological issue.) If it's not contentious, the source is only going to be wrong because of failure of diligence.
Sometimes editors working on a contentious topic article or a group of similar articles will find it helpful to develop a list of sources that have gained consensus as being among the best sources for that subject. This is usually the result of a long discussion among multiple editors and may involve discussions of the quality of the sources ...
a list of banned sources that can never be used or should be removed on sight; a list of biased or unbiased sources; a list of sources that are guaranteed to be 100% correct regardless of context; a list of every source that has been discussed; a list of sources that have never been discussed, or whose reliability should be obvious to most editors
Potentially unreliable sources ; Reliable source examples ; Topic-specific essays. Identifying reliable sources (history) Identifying reliable sources (law) Identifying reliable sources (science) Identifying reliable sources (medicine) Identifying and using style guides (WP:STYLEGUIDES)
The sacred or original text(s) of the religion will always be primary sources, but any other acceptable source may be a secondary source in some articles. For example, the works of Thomas Aquinas are secondary sources for a Roman Catholic perspective on many topics, but are primary sources for Thomas Aquinas or Summa Theologica .
The final broadcast of CNN’s long-running “Reliable Sources,” a show that examines the media industry and has aired on CNN for about three decades, was the most-watched program on the ...
Whether a source is usable also depends on context. Sources that are reliable for some material are not reliable for other material. For instance, otherwise unreliable self-published sources are usually acceptable to support uncontroversial information about the source's author. You should always try to use the best possible source ...