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Cool Hand Luke

25 Dec 2007 25 Dec '07

1:36 a.m.

A particular dispute over a Wikinews reporter citing quotes from his own interview has turned into a generalized debate about when Wikinews should be an acceptable source. See this RS/N thread.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticebo… Jimbo has suggested that Wikinews create a best practices document. BP-compliant articles would be verifiable and thus should be available to Wikipedia editors as a reliable source. See this Wikinews water cooler thread<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/miscellaneous#I… . I think that this is a great solution, which would answer the continual objections that Wikinews faces on our project. However, more editors should weigh in. Regards, User:Cool Hand Luke

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Cheney Shill

25 Dec 25 Dec

11:55 p.m.

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I'm tempted to answer that with never. Too much room for abuse, which the BP may or may not solve. We wouldn't know until the BP document is made and tested to prove it works. Until then, and after, a better option may be to limit it to the wikinews articles that are first cited by other reliable sources. Until then, it may as well be the White House encyclopedia citing White House press releases. --- Cool Hand Luke <failure.to.communicate(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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A particular dispute over a Wikinews reporter citing quotes from his own interview has turned into a generalized debate about when Wikinews should be an acceptable source. See this RS/N

thread.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticebo…

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Jimbo has suggested that Wikinews create a best practices document. BP-compliant articles would be verifiable and thus should be available to Wikipedia editors as a reliable source. See this Wikinews water cooler

thread<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/miscellaneous#I…

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. I think that this is a great solution, which would answer the continual objections that Wikinews faces on our project. However, more editors should weigh in.

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White Cat

26 Dec 26 Dec

11:58 p.m.

New subject: When should Wikinews be a reliable source on Wikipedia?

This is an interesting question. For example is an interview by a wikinews person a reliable source? I'd say perhaps... :/ - White Cat On Dec 25, 2007 3:36 AM, Cool Hand Luke <failure.to.communicate(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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. I think that this is a great solution, which would answer the continual objections that Wikinews faces on our project. However, more editors should weigh in. Regards, User:Cool Hand Luke _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Andrew Gray

27 Dec 27 Dec

12:05 a.m.

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On 26/12/2007, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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This is an interesting question. For example is an interview by a wikinews person a reliable source? I'd say perhaps... :/

I believe most of the people we have doing these are perfectly competent and trusted, so sure. Even if they're entirely unknown to us, an interview is probably about as reliable a source as an undergraduate newspaper, and we happily quote those... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk

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