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MintPressNews was deprecated from Wikipedia - it should not be used for any claim or purpose - because of its extensively documented history of publishing compl

MintPressNews was deprecated from Wikipedia - it should not be used for any claim or purpose - because of its extensively documented history of publishing completely fabricated stories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_268#RfC:_MintPress_News https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Not... Even if something in MintPressNews happens to be true that day, in general it's on the level of the Daily Mail. If you can't find a quality source for a claim in MintPressNews, you should strongly question it.

mardifoufs 5y ago
Okay, but this is obviously not wikipedia. Either the facts here are true or they aren't, and it should be pretty easy to verify either way. I get needing to weed out generally bad sources in an encyclopedic setting where the sheer volume of citations can make verifying everything a very painful chore, but invoking wiki policy anywhere else than on Wikipedia is not very useful Imo. (and that's without getting into the very very... Intense lobbying when it comes to a lot of WP:RS decisions anyways. Though it doesn't seem like the proposal you linked has been subject to that)