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A self-published source can be independent, authoritative, high-quality, accurate, fact-checked, and expert-approved. Self-published sources can be reliable, and they can be used (but not for third-party claims about living people). Sometimes, a self-published source is even the best possible source or among the best sources. For example:
A secondary source is significantly separated from these primary sources. A reporter's notebook is an (unpublished) primary source, and the news story published by the reporter based on those notes is also a primary source. This is because the sole purpose of the notes in the notebook is to produce the news report.
Self-published and questionable sources may be used as sources of information about themselves, usually in articles about themselves or their activities, without the self-published source requirement that they are established experts in the field, so long as: The material is neither unduly self-serving nor an exceptional claim;
Previous: A non-self-published source that verifies the same information is usually preferred to a non-self-published one. If it is not clear which source is better, they can both be cited. New: A non-self-published source that verifies the same information is usually preferred to a self-published one. If it is not clear which source is better ...
A self-published source is material that has been published by the author, or whose publisher is a vanity press, a web-hosting service, or other organization that provides little or no editorial oversight. Personal websites and messages either on USENET or on Internet bulletin boards are considered self-published.
A self-published source is material, online or in print, that has been published by the author, or whose publisher is a vanity press, web hosting service, or other organization that provides little or no editorial oversight. The expression "self-published source" may also refer to the author of the material.
The current report does not include all the self-publishers in the list of self-publishers, and is intended as a prototype, but others will be added soon. This lists in the report may include some proper uses of self-published items, e.g. the discussion of market-share by self publishers, etc. Those need to be remedied in future versions.
{{Self-published source|date=December 2024}} This is an inline citation annotation template used inside <ref>...</ref> to flag a source as self-published and thus potentially unreliable, per WP:Verifiability#Self-published sources (WP:Identifying reliable sources#Self-published sources and WP:Neutral point of view are also relevant, but the link produced by the template goes to that section at ...