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  2. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a reliable source - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is not a reliable source for citations elsewhere on Wikipedia, or as a source for copying or translating content. As a user-generated source , it can be edited by anyone at any time, and any information it contains at a particular time could be vandalism , a work in progress , or simply incorrect.

  3. Wikipedia:What is a reliable source? - Wikipedia

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    This is an essay on the Wikipedia:Reliable sources policy. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines , as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community .

  4. Reliability of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    A known example is the Sacha Baron Cohen article, where false information added in Wikipedia was apparently used by two newspapers, leading to it being treated as reliable in Wikipedia. [ 124 ] [ better source needed ] This process of creating reliable sources for false facts has been termed "citogenesis" by xkcd webcomic artist Randall Munroe .

  5. Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is not so great - Wikipedia

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    Not least in articles about Why Wikipedia is not so great which by no means reflect all the Wikipedia:Criticisms that qualified people have levied on it. Similarly, fanatical or ignorant users adhering to generally good rules to Wikipedia:avoid self-references and Wikipedia:Redirects have failed to recognize the few places where these are in ...

  6. Wikipedia:Potentially unreliable sources - Wikipedia

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    The guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources gives general advice on what is and isn't a reliable source; this essay aims to analyse specific examples of sources that might initially appear to be reliable, yet may not be.

  7. Wikipedia:Reliable source examples - Wikipedia

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    This page provides examples of what editors on Wikipedia have assessed to be a reliable source. The advice is not, and cannot be, comprehensive, and should be used primarily to inform discussion in an article talk page with respect to sources. Exceptions can naturally be made using common sense, in order to reach a collaborative conclusion ...

  8. Wikipedia:Academic use - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is not a reliable source for academic writing or research. Wikipedia is increasingly used by people in the academic community, from first-year students to distinguished professors, as an easily accessible tertiary source for information about anything and everything and as a quick "ready reference", to get a sense of a concept or idea.

  9. Wikipedia:Reliable sources - Wikipedia

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    Otherwise reliable news sources—for example, the website of a major news organization—that publish in a blog-style format for some or all of their content may be as reliable as if published in standard news article format (See also Wikipedia:Verifiability § Newspaper and magazine blogs).