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I started this article because people continuously ask me about how fact-checking works in Wikipedia.

I regret that I have not just now identified journalism or research which describes the process of fact-checking in Wikipedia. As a Wikipedia editor I am familiar with the process, but in these news sources I cited here in this initial draft the journalists likely found it too complicated to explain and just skipped it.

Fact-checking is science, art, engineering, culture, community outreach, research, and faith combined. Wikipedia editors can talk about any of these things. I feel like we need this article, but as with all of Wikipedia, we only present what we can back with sources to cite. I hope this article supports researchers and journalists in more deeply exploring how and why fact-checking in Wikipedia works. Blue Rasberry (talk) 00:39, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: DATS 6450 - Ethics for Data Science

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 12 January 2022 and 26 April 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): An Equestrian (article contribs).

RS vs post-factual sourcing

NOTIFICATION:

As Trump and MAGA succeed in bullying RS into silence and history/documents/databases/government records start to disappear, the fringe right-wing media's influence will become more dominant and the voice of RS will fade. It will also be harder to source good content. I don't know the exact statistics, but it appears that right-wing media already dwarf mainstream media 10 to 1, and, in the United States, Trump will go after all opposing voices and try to eliminate them.

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#RS vs post-factual sourcing

Do not continue it here. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 16:44, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]