Wikipedia:Reliable sources: Revision history

30 May 2025

• curprev 00:2300:23, 30 May 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,439 bytes +81 →Sources produced by machine learning: Adding shortcut WP:RSCHATGPT – Wikipedia:RSAI & Wikipedia:RSLLM also redirect here

17 May 2025

• curprev 19:2919:29, 17 May 2025 Schwede66 talk contribs 61,358 bytes +23 →News organizations: this chapter talks about news agencies and later about wire services; as they are the same thing, it's better to introduce the latter term at the same time

16 May 2025

• curprev 17:4017:40, 16 May 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,335 bytes −11 →Sources produced by machine learning: "Help themselves produce reports" is clunky, implies doing something to oneself rather than outside object
• curprev 17:3517:35, 16 May 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,346 bytes +10 →Sources produced by machine learning: "so-called" because the label "artificial intelligence" is dubious and poorly defined: see https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01723-5

29 April 2025

• curprev 12:1012:10, 29 April 2025 Rollinginhisgrave talk contribs 61,336 bytes +12 →Definition of published: not sufficient that a copy of the media exists, but it must be accessible

28 April 2025

• curprev 13:1013:10, 28 April 2025 Aaron Liu talk contribs 61,324 bytes −8 →Sources produced by machine learning: ce, remove unnecessary "so-called" Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• curprev 07:3407:34, 28 April 2025 Zero0000 talk contribs 61,332 bytes +1 →Sources produced by machine learning: changed a word to match the intended meaning of the sentence. It is the LLM doing the generating, not the human copier.

27 April 2025

• curprev 21:3221:32, 27 April 2025 WhatamIdoing talk contribs 61,331 bytes −17 →Definition of ''published'': Not just archived copies; originals (e.g., DVDs produced at the original time of publication) are also acceptable Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

12 April 2025

• curprev 13:2813:28, 12 April 2025 SmokeyJoe talk contribs 61,348 bytes −35 →top: per WP:LINKBOXES, with 90 day pageviews of 16986, 429, 880, 468, only WP:RS is justified as the recommended shortcut. All shortcuts will still work
• curprev 08:3908:39, 12 April 2025 Mathglot talk contribs 61,383 bytes −10 Undid revision 1285185074 by Rollinginhisgrave (talk) Seems like that means we can't we publish the analysis, views, and opinions of reliable authors anymore, unless someone else describes them, but that is not true. Or maybe the new wording doesn't mean that, so what does it mean? In any case, I read the Talk discussion, and it doesn't okay this wording. Tag: Undo
• curprev 05:0705:07, 12 April 2025 Rollinginhisgrave talk contribs 61,393 bytes +10 →Overview: opinions of reliable sources → opinions described in reliable sources per talk Tag: Reverted

31 March 2025

• curprev 15:3215:32, 31 March 2025 Peter Gulutzan talk contribs 61,383 bytes −45 Undid revision 1274431306 by Corriebertus (talk) There's already a see-also section for essay-class pages Tag: Undo

30 March 2025

• curprev 22:3622:36, 30 March 2025 Butwhatdoiknow talk contribs 61,428 bytes +76 →Essays: Add wp:You are not a reliable source to See also

27 March 2025

• curprev 14:1114:11, 27 March 2025 Rollinginhisgrave talk contribs 61,352 bytes −116 Replaced nutshell per Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources#Nutshell

10 March 2025

• curprev 22:5222:52, 10 March 2025 Gabldotink talk contribs m 61,468 bytes −9 →Questionable and self-published sources: removed underlines from already-italicized emphasis (and added semantic Template:Em) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit App section source
• curprev 22:4622:46, 10 March 2025 Gabldotink talk contribs m 61,477 bytes −11 →Questionable and self-published sources: replaced "de minimis" with "minimal"; de minimis as defined in the de minimis article is different from this usage Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit App section source

8 March 2025

• curprev 02:2802:28, 8 March 2025 Swatjester talk contribs 61,488 bytes +21 →News aggregators: one more shortcut (for the "direct links to the original source should be preferred over the aggregator's link" portion)
• curprev 02:2502:25, 8 March 2025 Swatjester talk contribs 61,467 bytes +24 →News aggregators: creating new shortcut to this section: WP:NEWSAGG

21 February 2025

• curprev 00:1100:11, 21 February 2025 TarnishedPath talk contribs 61,443 bytes +15 →Statements of opinion: Add shortcut

20 February 2025

• curprev 16:2116:21, 20 February 2025 FactOrOpinion talk contribs 61,428 bytes +140 →Scholarship: revised the Preprints bullet, per this Talk page discussion about that text

7 February 2025

• curprev 08:3108:31, 7 February 2025 Corriebertus talk contribs m 61,288 bytes +45 →Overview: see also Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources Tag: Reverted

26 January 2025

• curprev 21:1721:17, 26 January 2025 The Midnite Wolf talk contribs m 61,243 bytes +4 →Questionable and self-published sources: this is the main page Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

21 January 2025

• curprev 12:1012:10, 21 January 2025 Remsense talk contribs 61,239 bytes −483 bizarre
• curprev 12:0912:09, 21 January 2025 Remsense talk contribs 61,722 bytes +22 Undid revision 1270828725 by Galeop (talk): rv undiscussed, meaningful change to site guideline wrongly marked as a minor edit. Tag: Undo
• curprev 11:5411:54, 21 January 2025 Galeop talk contribs m 61,700 bytes −22 →Sponsored content: removing "(but far from always)" : symposia are grey littererature, while ideally 2ndary studies should be cited. Even assuming no COI, symposia should not be cited, as they're not peer reviewed 2ndary studies Tag: Reverted

17 January 2025

• curprev 17:5217:52, 17 January 2025 MrOllie talk contribs m 61,722 bytes −22 Reverted 1 edit by Howoo123 (talk) to last revision by Lazman321 Tags: Twinkle Undo
• curprev 17:4817:48, 17 January 2025 Howoo123 talk contribs m 61,744 bytes +22 ~~~~<ref></ref> TV Guide Magazine Tag: Reverted

15 January 2025

• curprev 05:0305:03, 15 January 2025 Lazman321 talk contribs 61,722 bytes +25 →Sources produced by machine learning: To address MOS:DATED

14 January 2025

• curprev 23:4323:43, 14 January 2025 JeffSpaceman talk contribs 61,697 bytes −272 →Self-published and questionable sources as sources on themselves: Discussion not present on talk page Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• curprev 04:3404:34, 14 January 2025 Jc3s5h talk contribs 61,969 bytes −157 On the contrary, the nutshell box at the top of essays indicate they have not been thoroughly vetted by the community. The essay on self-published has faced heavy criticism at Wikipedia talk:Verifiability#Proposal to adjust policy on self-published sources and following sections. Tag: Undo
• curprev 04:1604:16, 14 January 2025 CommonKnowledgeCreator talk contribs 62,126 bytes +96 →{{anchor|Self-published and questionable sources}}Questionable and self-published sources: Added WP:IS and WP:USINGSPS see also links per WP:SUPPLEMENTAL; essays have been designated as an explanatory essays indicating wide acceptance within Wikipedia community to be linked from a policy or guideline page Tag: Reverted
• curprev 04:1104:11, 14 January 2025 CommonKnowledgeCreator talk contribs 62,030 bytes +61 →Primary, secondary, and tertiary sources: Added WP:PRIMARYUSE see also link per WP:SUPPLEMENTAL; essay has been designated as an explanatory essay indicating wide acceptance within Wikipedia community to be linked from a policy or guideline page Tag: Reverted

12 January 2025

• curprev 05:0305:03, 12 January 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,969 bytes −1 →Sources produced by machine learning: Wording for clarity
• curprev 05:0105:01, 12 January 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,970 bytes +3 →Sources produced by machine learning: Wikilink AI chatbot
• curprev 04:5604:56, 12 January 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,967 bytes +31 →Sources produced by machine learning: Wording for clarity
• curprev 04:5504:55, 12 January 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,936 bytes −2 →Sources produced by machine learning: Wording for clarity
• curprev 04:5204:52, 12 January 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,938 bytes +20 →Sources produced by machine learning: Wikilink Hallucination (artificial intelligence)
• curprev 04:3204:32, 12 January 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,918 bytes −67 Consolidating footnotes using {{NoteTag}}
• curprev 04:2404:24, 12 January 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,985 bytes +120 →Sources produced by machine learning: Link to WP:RSPCHATGPT, wording for clarity
• curprev 04:1804:18, 12 January 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,865 bytes +290 →Sources produced by machine learning: "LLM-generated content from tools such as ChatGPT and other chatbots is not generally reliable" – see talk page
• curprev 03:5403:54, 12 January 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,575 bytes +13 →Notes: {{notelist}}
• curprev 03:5103:51, 12 January 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,562 bytes +4 →Sources produced by machine learning: Examples in footnote
• curprev 02:3202:32, 12 January 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,558 bytes +11 →Sources produced by machine learning: "generative AI" or "GenAI"
• curprev 02:1602:16, 12 January 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,547 bytes +82 →Sources produced by machine learning: Wikilink Generative artificial intelligence
• curprev 02:0502:05, 12 January 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,465 bytes +77 →Sources produced by machine learning: Wikilink Large language model, wording for clarity
• curprev 01:4901:49, 12 January 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,388 bytes −9 →Sources produced by machine learning: All ML-produced sources should be considered spurious until demonstrated otherwise
• curprev 01:4501:45, 12 January 2025 Sangdeboeuf talk contribs 61,397 bytes −120 →Spurious sources produced by machine learning: ML-generated text *should* be presumptively disqualified *until* specifically verified by a human author with relevant expertise

11 January 2025

• curprev 01:1101:11, 11 January 2025 JeffSpaceman talk contribs 61,517 bytes −1 →User-generated content: Reword, since the use of "content" twice in one sentence so close together seems slightly redundant Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

3 January 2025

• curprev 18:3818:38, 3 January 2025 Simonm223 talk contribs 61,518 bytes −10 →Biased or opinionated sources: I think the prior editor misread that line. Harry Magdoff only died in 2006 and absolutely was an economist. As in his degree was in economics. Tag: Manual revert
• curprev 18:0518:05, 3 January 2025 Closed Limelike Curves talk contribs 61,528 bytes +10 →Biased or opinionated sources: arguably not an economist (writing before economics as a scientific discipline) Tag: Reverted