I checked the article again and it says the following right after the quoted part: > An external links search shows around 2,580 [1] Wikipedia pages linking to

I checked the article again and it says the following right after the quoted part: > An external links search shows around 2,580 [1] Wikipedia pages linking to CounterPunch, around 2,400 [2] linking to the Daily Kos, and around 1,640 [3] linking to AlterNet. [1] https://archive.is/PWPNB https://archive.is/PWPNB [2] https://archive.is/R19OZ https://archive.is/R19OZ [3] https://archive.is/kNtgq https://archive.is/kNtgq Considering how many pages there are on Wikipedia, and how many of these results are notes and talk pages, I think one can conclusively determine that these sites are in fact not "widely used" sources. This isn't to say they're aren't questionable or shouldn't be filtered against of course (nor that they are and should be).