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Hispanopedia:Reliable sources
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This page describes an official policy of Hispanopedia. It has been drawn up by the community and compliance with it is mandatory for all editors. You may edit it to improve its wording and format, but if you wish to change any substantive matter, seek community consensus first. |
To guarantee the quality of Hispanopedia's articles, it is necessary to base them on reliable and verifiable sources, accepting as references only the works of authors accredited in the subject in question and not personal opinions. To the same end, it is also preferable to use signed content over unsigned content.[1]
Basic rules
The rules of general application to be followed are these:
- Hispanopedia's articles must mainly use reliable, independent and published sources.
- Sources are materials (books, journals, multimedia files) from which the information comes.[2]
- Reliable sources are credible materials in that they are published through a process that offers assurance as to their accuracy; their authors are generally regarded as trustworthy or authoritative in relation to the subject in question.
- Independent sources are those created by persons or entities not subordinate to other persons or entities. Their style tends to be neutral in character: they are addressed to the greater part of society.
- The term "published" is most commonly associated with textual materials. However, audio, video and multimedia materials that have been recorded and then broadcast, distributed or archived by a reputable third party may also meet the criteria necessary to be considered reliable sources. Like textual sources, media sources must be produced by a reliable third party and be properly cited. Additionally, an archived copy of the media must exist. It is useful, but by no means necessary, for the archived copy to be accessible via the Internet.
- Sources must directly support the information as it is presented in an article and must be appropriate to the claims made. Article editors should avoid doing original research, especially when making broad claims based on a synthesis of information from various sources.
- Efforts will be made to use reliable sources of good reputation, whenever this quality can be determined. The degree to which a particular source is accepted and used by others provides evidence, whether positive or negative, of that particular source's reputation. The more widespread and consistent the use of that source, the greater the degree of evidence about its reputation. For example, the fact that a reference source for particular content is not called into question despite widespread use is evidence of the good reliability and trustworthiness of that source for referencing similar content, while widespread doubts about its trustworthiness would weigh against it.
- The lack of available reliable sources for a subject may be grounds for doing without the corresponding article, following the usual deletion procedures to that end.
See also
Notes
- ↑ Bear in mind that this policy belongs to the framework of reliability. The mere absence of sources cited in an article, when these are available in any medium to Hispanopedia's editors, is really a matter regulated by the policies on verifiability and on primary sources.
- ↑ The term "sources" is also often used to refer to their authors, but in this policy we will refer mainly to the material.
External links
- How to Read a Primary Source, Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students, Patrick Rael, 2004. (in English) archived from the original [1], which disappeared.
- How to Read a Secondary Source, Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students, Patrick Rael, 2004. (in English) archived from the original [2], which disappeared.
