Wikipedia:WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation/Sources
Criteria
[edit]From WP:VERIFY, the test is:
- Is it an Academic source ?
/
- Does it have third party scrutiny ? /
- Is it a respected mainstream publication? / - (We should have other sources who call it as such)
- Is it not one of the following: self-published books, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, blogs, knols, podcasts, vcasts, patents, patent applications, forum postings, and similar sources.? /
- Is it a Questionable source ? / -(We should find other sources which claim as such)
- Is it self published by an expert? / -(Authors should be acknowledged experts in their fields)
See also WP:SLR#Classes of sources.
List of sources
[edit]This list is the result of discussions, usually on this page's talk page. To add a new source, please proceed per the #instructions below.
Explanation of columns:
- Name
- Usually the title of an article, or a name that would be a suitable title. Redlinks here don't necessarily mean that an article should be created, it only indicates that we don't have one.
- URL
- Web address of the source.
- Class
- One of the following:
RS: Reliable source
QS: Qualified source: A source that may be reliable in certain contexts, but always needs to be used with a qualification (also called “attribution”) such as “pro-rebel”, “state owned” or the name itself.
UnRS: Unreliable source
UnClassS: Unclassified source (that is, we haven't discussed it enough to reach a conclusion.) - Attribution
- displays how we recommend the source should be qualified in the text. For instance, the entry for Tamilnet is "pro-rebel", which means that text from them should be attributed like "according to the pro-rebel Tamilnet". "None" means that a source can be used without the "according ..." part, like most sources in Wikipedia. "Name only", as for Peace Secretariat of the LTTE means that a source should be referred to by its name in the text, as in "according to the Peace Secretariat of the LTTE".
- Remark / reason for classification
- usually contains a link to the discussion
Instructions
[edit]To add a new source to the table here, proceed as follows:
- Start a new topic about that source on the talk page (Usually, we simply enter the official name as a title for the section, linking it to our pertinent article).
- Copy the following text to the end of the table at List of sources, and replace the green cursive placeholders as appropriate:
- |-
- | [[Official Name]]
- | [http://www.name.org name.org]
- | Classification such as UnclasS
- | attribution such as state owned
- | [[link to discussion|Discussion]]
- When the discussion reached a conclusion (that is, a decision whether it is RS, QS, or unreliable, and how to attribute it, if it is a QS), then resolve as follows:
- Resolve discussion by adding {{resolved|~~~~~}} under the section headline.
- Write results of discussion in table.
- After at least 7 days, archive as follows:
- Move discussion to archive as usual.
- Update link in the table to point to archived discussion.
History of this page
[edit]This page was created by Wikipedia:WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation in 2009. Before that, discussion used to take place on other pages, most commonly WT:SLR. In 2015, the page got decommissioned, along with the rest of SLR, but in 2023 it got revived.