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The title of an article should generally use the version of the name of the subject that is most common in the English language, as you would find it in reliable sources (for example other encyclopedias and reference works, scholarly journals, and major news sources). This makes it easy to find, and easy to compare information with other sources.
According to linguist Suzanne Romaine, Ethnologue is also the leading source for research on language diversity. [52] According to The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society, Ethnologue is "the standard reference source for the listing and enumeration of Endangered Languages, and for all known and "living" languages of the world"."
Read Identifying reliable sources. It is a page intended to help readers search for and identify reliable sources. If you have a source in mind already, you can check its reliability by comparing it to the criteria at that page, or using one of the following methods. Read the Wikipedia article about the source, if one exists.
People Magazine does have fact checkers, although possibly intern or junior new hire level I think, but then you have this anecdote which tells of a case of an article mentioning Abe Vigoda. A "top editor" added "the late" in front of Vigoda's name (Vigoda was alive).
The medium is not the message; source evaluation is an evaluation of content, not publication format. Sometimes high-quality, generally tertiary individual sources are also primary or secondary sources for some material. Two examples are etymological research that is the original work of a dictionary's staff (primary); and analytical not just regurgitative material in a topical encycl
Likewise, a children's dictionary, which is generally derivative and thus a secondary or tertiary source for Wikipedia, could have cited a published source for one of its entries, and yet it should not be considered a dictionary primary source among linguists just because of the one exceptional entry.
[a] For example, the statement "the capital of France is Paris" does not require a source to be cited, nor is it original research, because it's not something you thought up and it is easily verifiable; therefore, no one is likely to object to it and we know that sources exist for it even if they are not cited.
Primary sources can be reliable, and they can be used. Sometimes, a primary source is even the best possible source, such as when you are supporting a direct quotation. In such cases, the original document is the best source because the original document will be free of any errors or misquotations introduced by subsequent sources.