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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 ...
For a source to be added to this list, editors generally expect two or more significant discussions about the source's reliability in the past, or an uninterrupted request for comment on the source's reliability that took place on the reliable sources noticeboard. For a discussion to be considered significant, most editors expect no fewer than ...
Does the source indeed support the material? It seems to. It's a book, and it's not online, and no page number is given, so this makes it hard to judge using the limited preview that Google Books provides. The ref'd material discusses Mendel at length and the material in the article is a severe reduction and simplification of this.
Being one of the best indicators of "what the collective world is thinking about," the list of most viewed Wikipedia pages receives wide attention in unassociated institutions and external popular media sources. One scholar in 2007 was puzzled why Wikipedia does not offer a "most viewed" or "most popular" feature on its site that can be easily ...
Cristiano Ronaldo is the most-followed individual user on Facebook with 170 million followers. Shakira is the most-followed female individual user on Facebook with 123 million followers. This article contains a list of the top 50 accounts with the largest number of followers on the social media platform Facebook.
Once you have found one good scholarly source, you can see what sources it cites and what cited it (citation chaining). This video describes citation chaining using Google Scholar. If you are having trouble accessing a particular source, e.g. due to privacy laws , try this list of ways to get around IP-based restrictions .
Issues with sources: this is for tagging issues with sources; they are either inline tags, or message boxes for sections or entire pages. You could also leave a note on the talk page asking for a source, or move the material to the talk page and ask for a source there. There are also some templates for search links to find sources.
The fact is derived from a scholarly source; The primary source used is the one used from a scholarly source, or a very close analogue; The primary source is attributed, allowing readers to understand the origin of the quote; Finally, the use of primary sources should be considered in terms of the policy regarding the use of images.