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After seeing comments about my edits containing "crappy" sources, rather than feeling discouraged I decided to create a list of reliable sources and sources to avoid. This list includes sources I've personally blacklisted for certain or all fields. Some websites might be inappropriate in one category but appropriate in another.

This list is incomplete and is subject to change. Please feel free to edit this page. Note that I have only included sources for fields that I would, in general, write about.

Reliable

Source Field
The New York Times General
ABC News Radio General
The Atlantic General
PubMed - National Library of Medicine Biology, Medicine
Chemistry
PubChem - National Library of Medicine] Chemistry
NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information Biology, Chemistry, Medicine


Avoid

  • Sources selling a product (conflict of interest)


Acceptable

Source Issues Field
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Medicine
WHO - World Health Organization Medicine
WebMD - seems fine but other sources may be Medicine


Blacklisted

Source Reason Field
Wikia user-submitted content General
Discogs - user-submitted content user-submitted content Music
Rate Your Music user-submitted content Music
Last.fm user-submitted content Music
45cat.com user-submitted content Music
Bandcamp If the music is released on Bandcamp, it's probably not noteworthy. Music
healthline has medical review but also contains pseudoscience articles Medicine, Nutrition
DietDoctor for profit company, has medical review but an overall bias, goal is to get users to sign up for membership. Medicine, Nutrition


Natural Sciences

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Reliable

  • Peer-reviewed articles published in scientific journals.

Blacklist

  • Pseudoscientific websites.

Medicine

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Blacklist

  • Health sites that sell products
  • Clinics selling healthcare
  • Vegan websites (biased, animal consumption is an ethics issues)
  • Websites making the following claims:
    • Essential oils have significant health benefits
    • Healing crystals have significant health benefits
    • Vaccines cause autism/cancer/AIDS or other conspiracies

Media

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Sources

Avoid

  • Media retail sites - no favoritism, also they are promoting and selling products. Although, there are cases where certain services have exclusive content.


Blacklist No social media or official websites.