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Wikipedia:Verifiability
Kamis, 2026-06-04 01:02:34

In the English Wikipedia, verifiability means that people can check that facts or claims correspond to reliable sources. Wikipedia's content is determined...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Robert Giles
Jumat, 2025-11-28 01:53:30

TWL) May not meet WP:Notability, some or all sources may not meet WP:SOURCEACCESS PhantomTech (talk) 16:58, 9 February 2013 (UTC) Note: This debate has...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Surrealist Women
Rabu, 2025-12-10 13:27:08

summary "not found" means that you could not find the source, but per WP:SOURCEACCESS, " If you have trouble accessing a source, others may be able to do so...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vamp Nail Polish
Rabu, 2025-11-19 00:08:53

how are they verified? LADY LOTUS • TALK 11:38, 18 April 2014 (UTC) WP:SOURCEACCESS. Are you sure you understand policy well enough to be nominating articles...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Darbari family
Selasa, 2026-01-06 09:11:15

that ease of access to references does not affect verifiability (see WP:SOURCEACCESS). However, the extraordinary difficulty in finding these resources suggests...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grænseløs Greatest
Jumat, 2025-11-28 01:58:53

harder to find, and I am not sure whether that would be successful. WP:SOURCEACCESS and WP:NONENG provides solutions to this question. Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\Work...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David William Thomas
Kamis, 2025-11-13 15:13:32

third-party coverage." This reasoning is in direct contradiction of WP:SOURCEACCESS: "Some reliable sources may not be easily accessible. For example, an...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/F-Beat Records
Sabtu, 2025-11-29 03:44:38

nomination. Also, sources don't have to be available online, per WP:SOURCEACCESS. Northamerica1000(talk) 02:21, 17 November 2012 (UTC) The label is covered...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NASHI
Jumat, 2025-11-14 17:11:38

(UTC) @Elmidae: Sources you cannot access are still valid sources (WP:SOURCEACCESS), and the current state of the article and the sources aren't relevant...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Poe (2nd nomination)
Selasa, 2025-12-16 08:50:33

working for me. It likely wasn't archived anywhere. I think that per WP:SOURCEACCESS, it still "counts"(?), but that's a weird situation of course. ~Maplestrip/Mable...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sea Scouts (band) (2nd nomination)
Jumat, 2026-01-09 04:12:13

07:43, 29 April 2011 (UTC) whilst not discounting your sources as per WP:SOURCEACCESS, i can't see most of the sources you've added. could you provide a way...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shams Ali Qalandar
Jumat, 2025-11-28 03:51:07

the number of sources can vary!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOURCEACCESS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NONENGAnasahmed24 Comment Unfortunately...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ranks of the Australian Air Force Cadets
Selasa, 2025-12-09 14:02:36

meant that the sources are offline then the nominator should read WP:SOURCEACCESS which states that such sources are fine. In any case, the information...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pradani Muthirulappa Pillai
Selasa, 2025-11-18 11:07:50

significant sources are the books cited in the article. Please read: WP:SOURCEACCESS "Some reliable sources may not be easily accessible. For example, an...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edmund Williams
Rabu, 2025-12-03 05:07:45

in the 1789-1793 range. My general rule is to WP:AGF and point to WP:SOURCEACCESS in such cases, though I do agree the author should have supplied at least...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Raider Fighter (Babylon 5)
Jumat, 2025-11-28 03:34:28

sources.Folken de Fanel (talk) 12:35, 6 January 2013 (UTC) Please see WP:SOURCEACCESS. Your inability to access sources is not my problem. You're entirely...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adele Broadbent
Rabu, 2025-12-10 01:53:39

for awards, and two have been named Storylines Notable Books. Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, "Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glocals.com
Minggu, 2025-11-23 00:28:18

David Gerard (talk) 07:38, 20 September 2016 (UTC) I was referring to WP:SOURCEACCESS. You said above the article's sources were "uncheckable", which I took...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nolet Het Reymerswale
Kamis, 2026-01-08 12:19:55

required so the fact that most sources are in Dutch is irrelevant. See WP:SOURCEACCESS and WP:NONENG. Furthermore, this restaurant was awarded a star by the...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Kennedy (rancher)
Sabtu, 2025-11-22 23:58:08

have a source which is said to back up the claim, and the policy WP:SOURCEACCESS states that we are not to reject offline sources but rather WP:AGF. That...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Engrish (2nd nomination)
Jumat, 2025-11-28 01:40:35

be considered reliable; please read Wikipedia:Offline sources and WP:SOURCEACCESS. LadyofShalott 02:36, 21 May 2013 (UTC) Comment - interestingly, a number...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons
Sabtu, 2025-11-29 20:46:20

that could be online or offline, with or without payment. Read WP:V#WP:SOURCEACCESS Cavarrone (talk) 12:17, 13 July 2012 (UTC) Fair, but how would the average...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexis Kasperavičius
Senin, 2026-01-05 09:54:20

have no prejudice to recreation. Sources need not be online (per WP:SOURCEACCESS) but they must be found in order for a BLP to remain on Wikipedia. Cunard...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Helena Eldrup
Rabu, 2025-12-10 06:35:26

[1] I am leaning towards Keep on the additional basis of WP:NONENG, WP:SOURCEACCESS, WP:WORLDVIEW and WP:AGF for the Kullgren reference and the other references...

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Wikipedia:Baby and bathwater
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:36:09

personal bias." Unawareness of Wikipedia:Verifiability § Accessibility (WP:SOURCEACCESS) policy: An editor determines content has a citation to a source work...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ukrainian Artists Society of Australia
Jumat, 2026-01-09 21:17:38

Talk:Ukrainian Artists Society of Australia.  (2) Nominator has called WP:SOURCEACCESS policy "unreasonable".  (3) Nominator has posted, without notice here...

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Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2018 March 22
Senin, 2018-04-02 17:50:05

the discussion was: delete. As for using the image as a source, per WP:SOURCEACCESS a source does not need to be easily accessible (lest of all on Wikipedia...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kobol (2nd nomination)
Senin, 2025-12-01 05:54:11

GNG cannot be not met when we have articles we cannot get at--per WP:SOURCEACCESS. Jclemens (talk) 05:52, 6 June 2017 (UTC) You cannot assume that the...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/St Pancras railway station/archive1
Kamis, 2021-10-28 20:16:04

which cannot now be viewed. A verifiable citation is needed here: see WP:SOURCEACCESS International station opens There are six paragraphs in this section...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A.I.R Engineer
Sabtu, 2025-11-22 03:15:31

genuine and cannot be argued down on grounds of inaccessibility, see WP:SOURCEACCESS. So, while the present state is unpublishable I do not think it should...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Role of Women During the North Korean Revolution
Minggu, 2025-11-16 05:01:40

Books as offline sources are verifiable and don't have to be online (WP:SOURCEACCESS). Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 04:57, 13 May 2015 (UTC)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle of Mosul (1745)
Selasa, 2025-12-09 06:09:56

article is no hoax and then relying on WP:AGF, WP:NONENGLISH and WP:SOURCEACCESS to keep the article, which is where I am leaning. 24.151.116.12 (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Efe Ukala
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 23:27:52

rejected merely on that basis or the absence of verification. As per WP:SOURCEACCESS, waybackmachine can be used to view these sources and authors can be...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bushido (role-playing game)
Sabtu, 2025-11-29 02:46:08

article stands, it's substantiated by a whole lot of OR. I'm seeing a WP:SOURCEACCESS issue here. X-posting from Aftermath's AfD, wouldn't it make more sense...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yousef Alhorr
Kamis, 2026-04-23 09:43:49

Bearian (talk) 14:37, 19 April 2026 (UTC) Keep - Consistent with WP:SOURCEACCESS, additional interviews, profiles, and academic indexing. Tarek Jabr (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Waffen-SS in Action
Senin, 2025-11-24 05:00:48

there is no demand that sources are available online, see Wikipedia:Sourceaccess. The worst mistake of all is, that nom in an assumed belief in his own...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Uxbridge College
Minggu, 2025-12-14 11:23:03

fact that these sources are offline or paywalled is irrelevant; see WP:SOURCEACCESS.) While I'm not averse to a merge in theory, it probably ought to go...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Etymology of Wicca/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 16:45:36

sources should not be rejected solely on difficulty or cost of access (WP:SOURCEACCESS). Informing interested readers where to find additional reliable information...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Byrdie Green (2nd nomination)
Rabu, 2025-12-10 03:32:05

the relevant page. Offline and paywalled sources are acceptable per WP:SOURCEACCESS, and these are much more easily accessible than that (they WP:NEXIST)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ark (Transformers) (2nd nomination)
Senin, 2026-01-05 13:19:01

122.49.102 (talk) 21:51, 7 January 2011 (UTC) Comment according to WP:SOURCEACCESS there is no requirement that sources be online. Mathewignash (talk) 14:27...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ralph W. Moss (writer)
Kamis, 2026-01-08 21:31:26

exclude sources that he cannot or will not personally verify, see WP:SOURCEACCESS (trust me, I have some bitter experience with this). PBS's two productionsThe...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2026 May 3
Selasa, 2026-05-12 13:41:16

Wikipedia". I believe this rejection was made in error and contrary to WP:SOURCEACCESS and WP:AGF. The subject is a traditional Sundanese narrative poem from...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deggendorf Institute of Technology
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 22:53:31

in-depth coverage behind a paywall (which should not be rejected per WP:SOURCEACCESS). This institution, like most other universities, meets WP:GNG. Modussiccandi...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nikos Lekatsas
Jumat, 2025-12-19 07:40:47

who don't live in Greece, it doesn't mean that no one can verify. WP:SOURCEACCESS exists for this reason. The editor who added the magazine citation to...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maureen Brady
Rabu, 2025-12-10 09:44:39

April 2019 (UTC) Osomadre: 1. Sources do not need to be online, per WP:SOURCEACCESS. If you have the title of the article/review, the name of the author...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sacred Heart Parish, Greenfield
Minggu, 2025-11-30 03:28:03

Yet I have found online and offline sources which I'm applying. Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, online sources are not required, and offline sources which can be proved...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grail Quest (The Fantasy Trip)
Senin, 2025-12-01 03:04:54

you can't see these yourself isn't a criterion for deletion, right? WP:SOURCEACCESS applies, as does WP:AGF unless there's some clear reason to disbelieve...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GIK Institute Clock Tower
Senin, 2025-11-17 12:47:36

December 2014 (UTC) Verifiability is not the same as access, see WP:SOURCEACCESS. Secondly, I am not talking about including every insignificant landmark...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Raymond Evelyn Stansfeld
Minggu, 2025-12-14 02:35:39

minor British noble. Mztourist (talk) 04:42, 22 July 2021 (UTC) Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, we should not dismiss a source due to not being able to retrieve its...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Catherine Slessor
Rabu, 2025-12-10 03:44:47

government login page. — MarkH21 (talk) 18:26, 5 February 2019 (UTC) Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, "Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atop the Fourth Wall
Sabtu, 2025-11-29 20:12:30

that "404!" is a totally non-valid argument point to bring up, per WP:SOURCEACCESS from WP:V policy. — Cirt (talk) 06:44, 29 March 2012 (UTC) Maybe that...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dal Khor
Sabtu, 2025-11-29 21:31:08

12 February 2012 (UTC) Well then you really really need to read WP:SOURCEACCESS because I've verified this. Complete information about the citation is...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bonelli Erede Pappalardo
Kamis, 2025-11-13 08:58:51

coverage does not need to be the main topic of the source material), WP:SOURCEACCESS (sources are not required to be online or accessible for free, I myself...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paramount California University
Jumat, 2025-11-14 20:29:49

Univers1111 (talk) 09:43, 21 May 2015 (UTC) See WP:SOURCEACCESS -- a source does not have to be available on line. Nomoskedasticity (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Seattle Seahawks seasons/archive1
Senin, 2023-12-25 07:25:33

don't think it would be worthwhile to link them, especially since WP:SOURCEACCESS permits the use of offline sources. SounderBruce 00:23, 20 December 2023...

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Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2019 July 27
Selasa, 2019-08-06 04:48:13

verifiability. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:56, 28 July 2019 (UTC) Agreed that WP:SOURCEACCESS does not affect verifiability. However, the Daughters of the Republic...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Levinus Monson
Senin, 2025-12-22 06:58:44

in that. ⚒️MinecraftPlayer321⚒️ | 💬 01:36, 29 February 2024 (UTC) WP:SOURCEACCESS and WP:OFFLINE. Innisfree987 (talk) 02:13, 29 February 2024 (UTC) Delete...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Castaneda/reiman
Rabu, 2025-12-10 03:44:11

subject". The sources which we can't access online are allowable per WP:SOURCEACCESS: "Some reliable sources may not be easily accessible. For example, an...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mix FM (Ottawa)
Kamis, 2026-01-08 07:29:28

sources have traditionally not been considered a show-stopper per WP:SOURCEACCESS (WP:V). Also consider Wikipedia:General disclaimer#Jurisdiction and legality...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2022 May 16
Jumat, 2022-05-20 07:16:11

sources out there are subscription based, e.g. scientific journals. Per WP:SOURCEACCESS Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Preston John Hurman
Senin, 2025-12-22 09:00:20

of the sources aren't readily available online, but of course per WP:SOURCEACCESS there's no requirement that they be. Nom should withdraw this ill-considered...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Airone
Minggu, 2025-11-16 20:55:42

points. First, article references do not require to be online, per WP:SOURCEACCESS, and book sources are perfectly suitable for evaluate notability. WP:PAPERONLY...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2020 April 12
Minggu, 2020-10-25 07:25:03

sources are perfectly acceptable for demonstrating notability, per WP:SOURCEACCESS. Sources being offline or behind a paywall would be an illegitimate reason...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cilician campaign of Kaykaus I
Jumat, 2025-12-19 01:36:41

of offline references; I default to trusting them for now. See the WP:SOURCEACCESS section of WP:V which is further explained in the Offline sources essay...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Davison (composer)
Senin, 2025-11-24 00:33:04

to for the editor to jump through hoops to cite that article, per WP:SOURCEACCESS. Joe Roe (talk) 09:10, 22 August 2016 (UTC) Delete (with reluctance)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Ziser
Minggu, 2026-01-18 20:03:57

do not have to be in the article currently. Also worth noting is WP:SOURCEACCESS, part of WP:V, which says "Do not reject reliable sources just because...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George William Burleigh
Jumat, 2025-11-28 01:53:36

reference).--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 19:32, 4 April 2013 (UTC) Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, sources are not required to be online because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amalia Carneri
Sabtu, 2025-11-22 05:48:32

revolutions) 21:59, 27 January 2016 (UTC) Keep per WP:MUSICBIO#5 and WP:SOURCEACCESS. (This assumes the citations are real.) --Sammy1339 (talk) 23:01, 27...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tarana-e-Milli
Minggu, 2025-11-30 04:28:16

(talk) 03:46, 7 June 2012 (UTC) Please do not assume like this. See WP:SOURCEACCESS. It doesn't "look" like that when even the page numbers are provided...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Finnair flight AY 915
Senin, 2025-11-17 11:51:16

instance, them being in Finnish does not make them unverifiable (see WP:SOURCEACCESS) or unreliable. Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 20:46, 24 September...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yuuki Tanaka
Senin, 2025-11-24 05:13:18

magazine in the country. (3) Accessibility of a source is not an issue (WP:SOURCEACCESS), nor is whether articles exist on other projects. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Travis Bowen
Minggu, 2025-12-07 08:14:30

received basically the same amount of coverage. Also, offline sources (WP:SOURCEACCESS) are also acceptable and should not be dismissed because some people...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Luma Health (2nd nomination)
Jumat, 2025-12-12 11:45:27

Vexations you can at least use a source like WSJ by looking at its title. WP:SOURCEACCESS states Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive665
Senin, 2026-05-04 08:20:54

WP:SOURCEACCESS only applies to text sources? It certainly doesn't state that in the article. TDL (talk) 01:30, 15 January 2011 (UTC) WP:SOURCEACCESS pertains...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2013 August 20
Minggu, 2022-07-03 22:22:34

it may cause uncertainty in the minds of some reviewers), as per WP:SOURCEACCESS. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 18:48, 20 August 2013 (UTC) Links to other Wikipedia...

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Wikipedia:Verifiability/Draft
Minggu, 2019-02-17 14:42:26

articles about itself. Shortcuts WP:PAYWALLWP:PAYWALL WP:SOURCEACCESSWP:SOURCEACCESS Verifiability in this context means anyone should be able to check that...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1102
Kamis, 2023-09-28 05:59:07

quote @192.76.8.85 gets abusive, cites WP:SOURCEACCESS @Sideswipe9th agrees w/ @192.76.8.85 re WP:SOURCEACCESS but demonstrates solution to precluding verification...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle of the Line (2nd nomination)
Sabtu, 2025-11-29 02:30:35

unsupportably more narrow and expansive than consensus. And again, per WP:SOURCEACCESS, your inability to read what I have found isn't my problem--if you want...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive194
Senin, 2026-04-20 00:23:49

used as a source because there is no direct online link to it, but WP:SOURCEACCESS and WP:OFFLINE state that sources do not need to be available online...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive185
Jumat, 2023-03-10 16:32:46

working but JCAla removed the ref without respecting WP:DEADLINK and WP:SOURCEACCESS. That is in the vandalism category actually. These are two reverts in...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive137
Selasa, 2025-09-23 20:39:28

and now accuses me of COI 2010-05-20 21:08 -- Naraht reverts citing WP:SOURCEACCESS 2010-05-20 21:11 -- AEKDB again ignores policy, reverts and claims to...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive272
Senin, 2023-03-27 02:15:00

content that has to be verifiable, not sources). Please have a look at WP:SOURCEACCESS. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 19:11, 2 April 2012 (UTC) ,...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Gerhard Vogel
Kamis, 2026-01-08 16:15:30

else? patsw (talk) 21:51, 5 October 2010 (UTC) With due deference to WP:SOURCEACCESS, it is quite clear that the policy at WP:RSUE has not been observed....

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A. E. London
Jumat, 2025-12-12 01:30:06

because it cannot be easily accessed online, in contradiction to WP:SOURCEACCESS Did it ever exist? This is verifiable by any decent librarian. Netmouse...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive890
Minggu, 2023-02-05 02:46:15

(edit conflict) Mirela, our verifiability policy contains a section (WP:SOURCEACCESS) stating that sources are not required to be accessible to all users...

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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive193
Selasa, 2023-03-21 01:33:58

there's much to worry about in this report. One thing to consider is WP:SOURCEACCESS -- there's no requirement that a source be easily available (e.g. on-line)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wave Accelerated Ring Pinch Reactor
Selasa, 2025-12-16 13:25:51

published by reliable, independent publications (See [3], [6], [12]) WP:SOURCEACCESS Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atlantis (Stargate)
Sabtu, 2025-11-29 02:24:40

met if the sources exist, not if you can read them yourself. Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, your inability to find what I add simply isn't my problem. Jclemens...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive730
Senin, 2026-05-04 20:24:14

reliable source; and a stubborn refusal to acknowledge the policy WP:SOURCEACCESS — which leads him to believe that such print sources as the St. Louis...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dixie Travel Plaza
Selasa, 2026-01-06 12:26:42

free online all you like but that's not how the policy works. Read WP:SOURCEACCESS, specifically The principle of verifiability implies nothing about ease...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive786
Minggu, 2026-03-15 17:18:42

passages of text to you and present them to you as the gatekeeper. Read WP:SOURCEACCESS. Go get the books in question, open them at the indicated page, and read...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive604
Kamis, 2026-02-26 22:43:06

blacklisted. -- Banjeboi 19:14, 12 March 2010 (UTC) Also note Per WP:SOURCEACCESS:"The principle of verifiability implies nothing about ease of access...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive722
Rabu, 2025-09-24 22:14:22

google land. Cheers!Meishern (talk) 18:19, 3 October 2011 (UTC) See WP:SOURCEACCESS, "Verifiability in this context means anyone should be able to check...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive723
Minggu, 2026-01-18 19:56:38

print sources may be available only in university libraries. (from WP:SOURCEACCESS, emphasis added) Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:21, 18 October 2011 (UTC) If...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive581
Jumat, 2025-01-24 22:28:06

contribs, and most recent contribs. He seems to be refusing to accept WP:SOURCEACCESS, and claiming that only sources that are fully available online should...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive737
Minggu, 2023-03-19 10:57:23

information. Deadlinks do not mean that sources are not cited... see WP:SOURCEACCESS. I've explained this to you on the talk page in much detail. Also please...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive745
Selasa, 2026-05-12 17:44:01

When I resist this kangaroo court mentality, based on the policy WP:SOURCEACCESS, which says it's not my job to make it easy for you, I get accused of...

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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive160
Selasa, 2025-09-23 23:33:47

continue to use a dubious image as reference and tell others to follow WP:SOURCEACCESS, which is certainly impossible for dubious references. OccultZone (Talk...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Teppei Miwa
Selasa, 2025-12-16 12:22:02

invalid. Fats40boy11 (talk) 18:45, 28 July 2022 (UTC) Quote from WP:SOURCEACCESS: Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Exotel
Senin, 2025-12-22 05:03:34

for being unable to access the first two sources, see WP:PAYWALL/WP:SOURCEACCESS. I have access to the book and it contains a full chapter on Exotel,...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Cranfield
Minggu, 2025-11-23 07:11:49

26 December 2016 (UTC) Comment Sources do not have to be online (WP:SOURCEACCESS). We have found sources online that verify his positions as a Justice...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 February 8
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:21:06

Talk:Ukrainian Artists Society of Australia.  (2) Nominator has called WP:SOURCEACCESS policy "unreasonable".  (3) Nominator has posted, without notice here...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pokémon and pornography
Jumat, 2025-12-19 08:22:30

being in French).--Kung Fu Man (talk) 02:15, 4 October 2023 (UTC) N WP:SOURCEACCESS + N WP:NONENG. RodRabelo7 (talk) 02:48, 4 October 2023 (UTC) You appear...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2018 May 6
Kamis, 2026-01-22 04:25:23

sources must be easily accessible; only that sources must exist. See WP:SOURCEACCESS part of WP:V. As an aside, your example citation is a {{cite web}} without...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anna Genovese
Rabu, 2025-12-10 02:28:07

sources are not hard to access once clipped, and even if they were, per WP:SOURCEACCESS, "Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of California public officials charged with crimes
Minggu, 2025-11-30 00:42:44

the vast majority of which may not be accessed by most readers. WP:SOURCEACCESS offers a broad policy on this, which is that we accept sources which...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 March 20
Kamis, 2023-02-09 16:17:07

be available, I said that some sources will be hard to find. Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, it doesn't prevent them from being reliable. —Gazoth (talk) 17:05, 22...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander K. Tyree
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 19:36:50

required for WP:BASIC. Mztourist (talk) 14:03, 25 June 2021 (UTC) Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, "Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Canada–Tonga relations
Sabtu, 2026-01-17 00:34:03

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahmetyal (talk • contribs) Comment WP:SOURCEACCESS, which is a shortcut to policy Wikipedia:Verifiability, states "Verifiability...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/April 2017
Selasa, 2017-04-25 07:31:10

Monopoly board from that vintage if they have the money (which per WP:SOURCEACCESS is okay) and verify that what is on the website (and, one presumes, what...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Fort Dobbs (North Carolina)/archive1
Minggu, 2013-01-13 05:26:47

available to the public in some form". Under that definition and WP:SOURCEACCESS, since it's available in a university library I'd say it qualifies as...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wild Bunch Paintball Team
Senin, 2025-11-24 05:05:36

addressing new writers is to "be bold." I am going to take that advice. WP:SOURCEACCESS states that "[s]ome reliable sources may not be easily accessible. For...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2018 November 1
Senin, 2018-11-05 08:34:30

a document at the State of Florida exists and it meets WP:VERIFY, WP:SOURCEACCESS. Anyone can call or write and get the information. I want to cite a document...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 69
Senin, 2023-04-03 17:08:27

creates an automatic link to a number of book databases. However, WP:SOURCEACCESS (in the verifiability policy) does not guarantee that an arbitrary reader...

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Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2016 February 29
Jumat, 2023-03-03 16:07:09

doesn't matter if the source is rare or not, Rocknrollmancer. See WP:SOURCEACCESS. Motor Cycle Mechanics 1974 is a perfectly acceptable source. In fact...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2019 July 6
Jumat, 2023-03-03 18:55:19

summary "not found" means that you could not find the source, but per WP:SOURCEACCESS, " If you have trouble accessing a source, others may be able to do so...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993
Jumat, 2025-12-19 10:11:16

with your computer? If you are unable to access a source, the policy WP:SOURCEACCESS applies. It says "Do not reject reliable sources just because they are...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2010 January 16
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:44:51

that ease of access to references does not affect verifiability (see WP:SOURCEACCESS). However, the extraordinary difficulty in finding these resources suggests...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1000
Jumat, 2019-08-23 12:00:35

Reliable Source. Sources do not need to be easily accessable. See WP:SOURCEACCESS. RudolfRed (talk) 18:23, 19 August 2019 (UTC) @Sparkle666: What is the...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 147
Senin, 2023-08-21 02:17:37

"adverting freesheet". Nomoskedasticity (talk) 17:43, 13 April 2013 (UTC) WP:SOURCEACCESS says Other people should in principle be able to check that material...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 966
Rabu, 2026-03-25 00:22:02

sources are reliable, and independent of the actor, then yes: see WP:SOURCEACCESS. Sources don't have to be online or easy to obtain, as long as they are...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2021 August 3
Senin, 2021-08-30 23:50:44

minor British noble. Mztourist (talk) 04:42, 22 July 2021 (UTC) Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, we should not dismiss a source due to not being able to retrieve its...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jason Thielman
Senin, 2026-05-04 05:26:53

2024 election. Reliable sources are not disqualified by access cost (WP:SOURCEACCESS, WP:PAYWALL), and the record runs well beyond "one and local"; the Washington...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1095
Jumat, 2022-05-20 12:56:47

quite obscure requests fulfilled there. For our policy on this, see WP:SOURCEACCESS, Wikipedia:Offline sources and Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Cost. Best...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1155
Senin, 2022-08-08 21:53:33

208.172.35 (talk) 17:49, 14 June 2022 (UTC) @Terre Hominum To quote WP:SOURCEACCESS Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 89
Senin, 2025-04-14 15:59:35

17 February 2011 (UTC) Linking to the rather severe judgement at WP:SOURCEACCESS: "The principle of verifiability implies nothing about ease of access...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2020 July 3
Jumat, 2020-07-24 04:04:07

WP:NOTCLEANUP. Whether you can access a source or not is irrelevant. See WP:SOURCEACCESS, WP:PAYWALL, WP:LINKROT. You should trust your fellow editors per WP:AGF...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Advanced Video Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator
Sabtu, 2024-12-28 06:43:12

online (that I can find), so I can't assess it. I'm well aware per WP:SOURCEACCESS that online availability or the lack thereof does not affect the quality...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2013 January 12
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:32:48

sources.Folken de Fanel (talk) 12:35, 6 January 2013 (UTC) Please see WP:SOURCEACCESS. Your inability to access sources is not my problem. You're entirely...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2015 March 6
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:34:57

third-party coverage." This reasoning is in direct contradiction of WP:SOURCEACCESS: "Some reliable sources may not be easily accessible. For example, an...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2015 November 23
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:31:16

(UTC) @Elmidae: Sources you cannot access are still valid sources (WP:SOURCEACCESS), and the current state of the article and the sources aren't relevant...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 88
Rabu, 2025-09-24 04:39:25

available there and at the Cambridge University Library. I understand per WP:SOURCEACCESS that verifiablily need not be free, nor even convenient, and that theoretically...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 180
Jumat, 2023-12-01 17:01:09

clipping left there as a courtesy to you (but not required).. see WP:SOURCEACCESS. It's a news source not an image. --lTopGunl (talk) 13:43, 2 December...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2013 September 7
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:16:55

the number of sources can vary!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOURCEACCESS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NONENGAnasahmed24 Comment Unfortunately...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1096
Senin, 2025-08-11 12:57:54

not make it at all un-citeable. For our policy on this, please see WP:SOURCEACCESS, Wikipedia:Offline sources and Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Cost. As to...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1135
Sabtu, 2023-07-15 05:41:22

Anyone will be able to obtain a copy of the decree absolute". I see WP:sourceaccess says "Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2017 June 6
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:38:49

GNG cannot be not met when we have articles we cannot get at--per WP:SOURCEACCESS. Jclemens (talk) 05:52, 6 June 2017 (UTC) You cannot assume that the...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 April 28
Minggu, 2023-02-19 00:13:09

07:43, 29 April 2011 (UTC) whilst not discounting your sources as per WP:SOURCEACCESS, i can't see most of the sources you've added. could you provide a way...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2014 April 23
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:15:33

how are they verified? LADY LOTUS • TALK 11:38, 18 April 2014 (UTC) WP:SOURCEACCESS. Are you sure you understand policy well enough to be nominating articles...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2015 May 18
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:34:08

Univers1111 (talk) 09:43, 21 May 2015 (UTC) See WP:SOURCEACCESS -- a source does not have to be available on line. Nomoskedasticity (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2016 September 18
Sabtu, 2024-07-13 00:50:21

David Gerard (talk) 07:38, 20 September 2016 (UTC) I was referring to WP:SOURCEACCESS. You said above the article's sources were "uncheckable", which I took...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2014 December 9
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:10:14

December 2014 (UTC) Verifiability is not the same as access, see WP:SOURCEACCESS. Secondly, I am not talking about including every insignificant landmark...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2020 December 18
Sabtu, 2020-12-26 16:48:03

because it cannot be easily accessed online, in contradiction to WP:SOURCEACCESS Did it ever exist? This is verifiable by any decent librarian. Netmouse...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2022 July 17
Sabtu, 2022-07-30 01:34:41

working for me. It likely wasn't archived anywhere. I think that per WP:SOURCEACCESS, it still "counts"(?), but that's a weird situation of course. ~Maplestrip/Mable...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2014 September 22
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:52:01

instance, them being in Finnish does not make them unverifiable (see WP:SOURCEACCESS) or unreliable. Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 20:46, 24 September...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2018 April 16
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:28:18

article is no hoax and then relying on WP:AGF, WP:NONENGLISH and WP:SOURCEACCESS to keep the article, which is where I am leaning. 24.151.116.12 (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 December 14
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:24:15

required so the fact that most sources are in Dutch is irrelevant. See WP:SOURCEACCESS and WP:NONENG. Furthermore, this restaurant was awarded a star by the...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2016 March 2
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:07:03

magazine in the country. (3) Accessibility of a source is not an issue (WP:SOURCEACCESS), nor is whether articles exist on other projects. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2017 January 5
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:43:56

26 December 2016 (UTC) Comment Sources do not have to be online (WP:SOURCEACCESS). We have found sources online that verify his positions as a Justice...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2015 May 20
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:33:54

Books as offline sources are verifiable and don't have to be online (WP:SOURCEACCESS). Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 04:57, 13 May 2015 (UTC)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 April 4
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:26:43

sources have traditionally not been considered a show-stopper per WP:SOURCEACCESS (WP:V). Also consider Wikipedia:General disclaimer#Jurisdiction and legality...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 February 2
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:21:56

have no prejudice to recreation. Sources need not be online (per WP:SOURCEACCESS) but they must be found in order for a BLP to remain on Wikipedia. Cunard...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nyala Rinpoche
Minggu, 2025-11-23 22:17:34

Page move could be much better option than applying WP:TNT. Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, we can not reject reliable sources only because they are inaccessible...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 November 16
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:47:23

nomination. Also, sources don't have to be available online, per WP:SOURCEACCESS. Northamerica1000(talk) 02:21, 17 November 2012 (UTC) The label is covered...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2017 October 25
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:31:38

you can't see these yourself isn't a criterion for deletion, right? WP:SOURCEACCESS applies, as does WP:AGF unless there's some clear reason to disbelieve...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 October 23
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:07:59

exclude sources that he cannot or will not personally verify, see WP:SOURCEACCESS (trust me, I have some bitter experience with this). PBS's two productionsThe...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2022 June 1
Sabtu, 2024-07-13 00:51:10

published by reliable, independent publications (See [3], [6], [12]) WP:SOURCEACCESS Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2022 July 25
Selasa, 2022-08-09 14:10:56

invalid. Fats40boy11 (talk) 18:45, 28 July 2022 (UTC) Quote from WP:SOURCEACCESS: Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2016 May 25
Sabtu, 2024-07-13 00:50:20

have a source which is said to back up the claim, and the policy WP:SOURCEACCESS states that we are not to reject offline sources but rather WP:AGF. That...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2014 September 9
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:50:53

significant sources are the books cited in the article. Please read: WP:SOURCEACCESS "Some reliable sources may not be easily accessible. For example, an...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2013 January 24
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:31:44

harder to find, and I am not sure whether that would be successful. WP:SOURCEACCESS and WP:NONENG provides solutions to this question. Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\Work...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2016 August 6
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:20:58

genuine and cannot be argued down on grounds of inaccessibility, see WP:SOURCEACCESS. So, while the present state is unpublishable I do not think it should...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2019 April 11
Sabtu, 2024-07-13 00:50:34

April 2019 (UTC) Osomadre: 1. Sources do not need to be online, per WP:SOURCEACCESS. If you have the title of the article/review, the name of the author...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2021 April 25
Senin, 2021-05-10 00:26:54

in-depth coverage behind a paywall (which should not be rejected per WP:SOURCEACCESS). This institution, like most other universities, meets WP:GNG. Modussiccandi...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2018 September 4
Rabu, 2023-03-01 12:18:38

do not have to be in the article currently. Also worth noting is WP:SOURCEACCESS, part of WP:V, which says "Do not reject reliable sources just because...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2016 May 21
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:04:27

addressing new writers is to "be bold." I am going to take that advice. WP:SOURCEACCESS states that "[s]ome reliable sources may not be easily accessible. For...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 700
Sabtu, 2022-01-15 10:11:53

free-to-access but lower-quality sources (see WP:SOURCETYPES and WP:SOURCEACCESS), so I wouldn't worry about readers needing to register on an external...

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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Collect and others/Evidence
Kamis, 2025-04-10 20:25:39

the cited source. This despite the fact that he's been pointed to WP:SOURCEACCESS and advised of several methods he can follow for getting the source material...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2010 October 5
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:30:43

else? patsw (talk) 21:51, 5 October 2010 (UTC) With due deference to WP:SOURCEACCESS, it is quite clear that the policy at WP:RSUE has not been observed....

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 December 12
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:01:06

unsupportably more narrow and expansive than consensus. And again, per WP:SOURCEACCESS, your inability to read what I have found isn't my problem--if you want...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2010 December 12
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:49:21

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahmetyal (talk • contribs) Comment WP:SOURCEACCESS, which is a shortcut to policy Wikipedia:Verifiability, states "Verifiability...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 December 19
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:00:35

met if the sources exist, not if you can read them yourself. Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, your inability to find what I add simply isn't my problem. Jclemens...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2019 April 2
Rabu, 2023-03-01 12:18:55

[18] I am leaning towards Keep on the additional basis of WP:NONENG, WP:SOURCEACCESS, WP:WORLDVIEW and WP:AGF for the Kullgren reference and the other references...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nicholas Hagger (2nd nomination)
Kamis, 2026-01-08 11:28:53

pages that have no way to be verified and some paywall sites. See WP:SOURCEACCESS. If we can't check it, it's not verified, and this, this person fails...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2016 August 9
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:20:41

to for the editor to jump through hoops to cite that article, per WP:SOURCEACCESS. Joe Roe (talk) 09:10, 22 August 2016 (UTC) Delete (with reluctance)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 February 8
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:57:31

12 February 2012 (UTC) Well then you really really need to read WP:SOURCEACCESS because I've verified this. Complete information about the citation is...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2019 February 1
Rabu, 2023-03-01 12:20:13

government login page. — MarkH21 (talk) 18:26, 5 February 2019 (UTC) Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, "Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2019 March 8
Rabu, 2023-03-01 12:22:33

subject". The sources which we can't access online are allowable per WP:SOURCEACCESS: "Some reliable sources may not be easily accessible. For example, an...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2013 April 12
Selasa, 2023-03-14 13:09:46

allows you to use the original for verification without any link. See WP:SOURCEACCESS, Wikipedia:Offline sources and Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Cost. If you...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 March 29
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:50:38

that "404!" is a totally non-valid argument point to bring up, per WP:SOURCEACCESS from WP:V policy. — Cirt (talk) 06:44, 29 March 2012 (UTC) Maybe that...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 January 24
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:56:23

Yet I have found online and offline sources which I'm applying. Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, online sources are not required, and offline sources which can be proved...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Wellemeyer
Rabu, 2025-12-10 07:27:42

functioning. While most of these have been removed, in reality under WP:SOURCEACCESS they do not need to be available online to be included as a source. There...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2013 April 3
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:39:46

reference).--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 19:32, 4 April 2013 (UTC) Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, sources are not required to be online because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2012 November 21
Kamis, 2025-11-13 18:57:35

why the link at ottawacitizen.com no longer works. WP:DEADLINK and WP:SOURCEACCESS say that we don't need to have a working link to reference it, but if...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 898
Rabu, 2020-06-17 08:28:09

not published in Internet. Is that right? If so, please refer to WP:SOURCEACCESS in the Verifiability policy, which explicitly says sources do not need...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2018 February 19
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:22:11

in the 1789-1793 range. My general rule is to WP:AGF and point to WP:SOURCEACCESS in such cases, though I do agree the author should have supplied at least...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2013 January 19
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:32:11

sources.Folken de Fanel (talk) 12:35, 6 January 2013 (UTC) Please see WP:SOURCEACCESS. Your inability to access sources is not my problem. You're entirely...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2017 January 21
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:45:00

Page move could be much better option than applying WP:TNT. Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, we can not reject reliable sources only because they are inaccessible...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2019 October 30
Jumat, 2023-03-03 18:47:14

sources are not hard to access once clipped, and even if they were, per WP:SOURCEACCESS, "Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2021 June 24
Senin, 2021-07-05 21:46:16

required for WP:BASIC. Mztourist (talk) 14:03, 25 June 2021 (UTC) Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, "Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2016 May 3
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:03:40

there is no demand that sources are available online, see Wikipedia:Sourceaccess. The worst mistake of all is, that nom in an assumed belief in his own...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erica C. Barnett (2nd nomination)
Jumat, 2025-12-12 06:35:42

WP:NOTCLEANUP. Whether you can access a source or not is irrelevant. See WP:SOURCEACCESS, WP:PAYWALL, WP:LINKROT. You should trust your fellow editors per WP:AGF...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2010 June 20
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:39:55

free online all you like but that's not how the policy works. Read WP:SOURCEACCESS, specifically The principle of verifiability implies nothing about ease...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2018 July 6
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:16:33

meant that the sources are offline then the nominator should read WP:SOURCEACCESS which states that such sources are fine. In any case, the information...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2020 March 13
Minggu, 2020-03-22 05:33:39

Vexations you can at least use a source like WSJ by looking at its title. WP:SOURCEACCESS states Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 January 15
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:20:33

122.49.102 (talk) 21:51, 7 January 2011 (UTC) Comment according to WP:SOURCEACCESS there is no requirement that sources be online. Mathewignash (talk) 14:27...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 190
Minggu, 2023-03-19 06:36:09

2015 (UTC) There is no requirement that sources be on-line (see: WP:SOURCEACCESS). I assume the sources that are cited in the draft are old newspaper...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2011 May 2
Senin, 2023-01-30 18:03:21

issue on whether a source is reliable is whether it's verifiable. WP:SOURCEACCESS states that it doesn't have to be easily verifiable, but I'm not sure...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2019 February 22
Jumat, 2023-03-03 18:59:24

the relevant page. Offline and paywalled sources are acceptable per WP:SOURCEACCESS, and these are much more easily accessible than that (they WP:NEXIST)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2021 June 27
Sabtu, 2021-07-10 06:10:02

fact that these sources are offline or paywalled is irrelevant; see WP:SOURCEACCESS.) While I'm not averse to a merge in theory, it probably ought to go...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2013 February 9
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:32:57

TWL) May not meet WP:Notability, some or all sources may not meet WP:SOURCEACCESS PhantomTech (talk) 16:58, 9 February 2013 (UTC) Note: This debate has...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 March 20
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:51:10

the vast majority of which may not be accessed by most readers. WP:SOURCEACCESS offers a broad policy on this, which is that we accept sources which...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2021 September 10
Selasa, 2021-09-21 02:25:47

rejected merely on that basis or the absence of verification. As per WP:SOURCEACCESS, waybackmachine can be used to view these sources and authors can be...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 670
Senin, 2023-01-30 14:55:42

since vast numbers of the best sources are on paper alone. Please see WP:SOURCEACCESS, WP:RSC and WP:OFFLINE. Meanwhile, vandalism only refers to bad faith...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2014 May 16
Jumat, 2026-02-13 01:05:51

page, Wikipedia:Verifiability. Quick access to the excerpt below at WP:SOURCEACCESS, and also a link to Wikipedia:Offline sources, where the template reads...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2016 January 26
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:13:57

revolutions) 21:59, 27 January 2016 (UTC) Keep per WP:MUSICBIO#5 and WP:SOURCEACCESS. (This assumes the citations are real.) --Sammy1339 (talk) 23:01, 27...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2022 June 9
Senin, 2022-06-13 07:28:36

—TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:39, 9 June 2022 (UTC) This is covered by WP:SOURCEACCESS, specifically "Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2014 February 14
Senin, 2023-01-30 17:57:08

published reliable sources are not (or are behind a paywall). Please see WP:SOURCEACCESS, Wikipedia:Offline sources and Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Cost. So, if...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 203
Minggu, 2024-10-20 07:38:39

do not have to have up-to-date links to be usable and valid, per WP:SOURCEACCESS. Adding a convenience link to DISQUS could be acceptable, but it looks...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 October 20
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:45:10

article stands, it's substantiated by a whole lot of OR. I'm seeing a WP:SOURCEACCESS issue here. X-posting from Aftermath's AfD, wouldn't it make more sense...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2019 February 11
Rabu, 2023-03-01 12:20:17

functioning. While most of these have been removed, in reality under WP:SOURCEACCESS they do not need to be available online to be included as a source. There...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 July 13
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:55:20

that could be online or offline, with or without payment. Read WP:V#WP:SOURCEACCESS Cavarrone (talk) 12:17, 13 July 2012 (UTC) Fair, but how would the average...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 8
Kamis, 2024-10-17 05:47:38

different newspapers even better. This would satisfy WP:V as per WP:SOURCEACCESS. Yaris678 (talk) 17:40, 23 May 2012 (UTC) ....Well, I guess the topic...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 100
Sabtu, 2025-12-27 01:14:23

on is concerned with the work itself, its creator, and publisher. WP:SOURCEACCESS addresses some of the issue of accessibility but in IMHO that is more...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 240
Minggu, 2026-03-08 00:11:02

to use deaddisc.com is it's easier to access; I appreciate we have WP:SOURCEACCESS, but that doesn't help us when we have an article that can't be fact...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2013 May 20
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:24:03

be considered reliable; please read Wikipedia:Offline sources and WP:SOURCEACCESS. LadyofShalott 02:36, 21 May 2013 (UTC) Comment - interestingly, a number...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 130
Selasa, 2025-09-23 22:16:44

(talk) 03:25, 25 August 2012 (UTC) Not published in the sense of WP:SOURCEACCESS or WP:Reliable sources/Cost. Not reliable as not published. Fifelfoo...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 82
Kamis, 2024-02-15 19:52:18

note in the citation.--Wehwalt (talk) 20:37, 5 December 2010 (UTC) WP:SOURCEACCESS, which is a shortcut to policy Wikipedia:Verifiability, states "Verifiability...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 280
Sabtu, 2020-05-09 02:47:55

doesn't count"? The only policy that mentions the topic at all is WP:SOURCEACCESS, and it tells us not to favor online sources over other media.--Dennis...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2014 August 26
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:13:15

points. First, article references do not require to be online, per WP:SOURCEACCESS, and book sources are perfectly suitable for evaluate notability. WP:PAPERONLY...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 92
Sabtu, 2023-02-25 01:06:36

(UTC) A further note about the availability of Doctor Who Magazine. WP:SOURCEACCESS says "The principle of verifiability implies nothing about ease of access...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2019 September 7
Rabu, 2023-03-01 12:24:34

for awards, and two have been named Storylines Notable Books. Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, "Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly...

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Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/27 February 2012/Wikipedia:Verifiability/WP:V
Rabu, 2012-07-18 05:09:24

==Accessibility== ===Access to sources=== {{policy shortcut|WP:PAYWALL|WP:SOURCEACCESS}} {{Seealso|Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange|Wikipedia:Offline...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2013 February 7
Jumat, 2023-02-10 13:22:24

above have said about the issue that brought you here, please see WP:SOURCEACCESS, Wikipedia:Offline sources and Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Cost.--Fuhghettaboutit...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 93
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 05:02:52

of verifiability implies nothing about ease of access to sources" (WP:SOURCEACCESS). If you are going to cite a TV show, you will need to be specific just...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2012 October 30
Kamis, 2023-02-09 03:44:37

sources for verification and in support of claims to notability. Per WP:SOURCEACCESS and WP:OFFLINE, there is no requirement that sources be available online...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 272
Selasa, 2025-11-18 01:10:31

one. ​— Newslinger talk 09:57, 29 August 2019 (UTC) Relevant link: WP:SOURCEACCESS. Sources don't necessarily have to be online, freely or even publicly...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 197
Jumat, 2023-03-03 12:45:33

hands-on inspection only in the UK, at, e.g., the V&A though I suppose WP:SOURCEACCESS covers that. The material I have in mind is, e.g. Michael Kennedy on...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 64
Selasa, 2023-03-14 19:31:22

That an online resource is not needed is clear in WP:V, specifically WP:SOURCEACCESS. The statement about copyright not applying if the clip is short enough...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 212
Minggu, 2023-03-26 01:50:39

generally do not buy books that will never do more than gather dust. WP:SOURCEACCESS says that rarity does not eliminate a source. (Answering Tiptoe:) Unsupported...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 86
Minggu, 2024-10-20 08:49:55

January 2011 (UTC) I would suggest referring the other editor to WP:SOURCEACCESS. --Nuujinn (talk) 14:22, 8 January 2011 (UTC) If this question is related...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 205
Sabtu, 2023-02-11 03:36:41

it because you don't have access to the print issue falls afoul of WP:SOURCEACCESS. Like WP:OFFLINE says, it is not good practice to say "Revert - I couldn't...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 763
Sabtu, 2023-02-11 08:38:19

Google Books to be acceptable as sources, Samuel-chapkovski. See WP:SOURCEACCESS and Wikipedia:Offline sources on this. For instructions on how to cite...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 206
Jumat, 2023-03-03 12:45:09

hold of it. I also note that it is NOT a requirement, per Wikipedia:SOURCEACCESS, that this source is available easily, immediately or on-line. As to...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 June 6
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:52:06

(talk) 03:46, 7 June 2012 (UTC) Please do not assume like this. See WP:SOURCEACCESS. It doesn't "look" like that when even the page numbers are provided...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2021 February 11
Jumat, 2021-09-10 13:45:12

be posted online in order for you to cite it for verification. See WP:SOURCEACCESS / Wikipedia:Offline sources / Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Cost. Furthermore...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 16
Senin, 2022-05-02 10:44:36

summary "Adding archives to assist with Wikipedia:Verifiability, WP:SOURCEACCESS". Was it approved for that purpose? Is ghostarchive an approved archive...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 107
Jumat, 2023-03-03 12:47:35

The BBC is a reliable source. The aspect of access is covered in WP:SOURCEACCESS and was incorrectly stated above: "If it was only broadcast, and you...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 72
Sabtu, 2025-01-11 05:40:26

there is a difficulty for ordinary Wikipedians (as acknowledged at WP:SOURCEACCESS) in obtaining the information alluded to. I see no reason to delete such...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 326
Selasa, 2025-09-23 17:53:46

to contradict some of what you have said. Note the section about WP:SOURCEACCESS states: ”Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 66
Kamis, 2023-02-16 16:57:09

require payment or some shoe-leather with trip to the library. See WP:SOURCEACCESS. If your US government resources are only available to government employees...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 743
Kamis, 2018-03-29 11:59:08

time consuming(learning Norwegian so you can read the book). See WP:SOURCEACCESS. 331dot (talk) 00:18, 24 March 2018 (UTC) You may wish to discuss this...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 142
Jumat, 2023-03-03 12:47:00

How does "published" not necessarily mean wide distribution? Well, WP:SOURCEACCESS meantions "some print sources may only be available in university libraries"...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 517
Sabtu, 2023-02-11 08:35:01

be allowed as that would be a link to a copyright violation). See WP:SOURCEACCESS and Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Cost. Just cite them, without using a...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 568
Sabtu, 2023-02-11 08:36:02

problematic; but the Resource exchange may still be helpful. See WP:SOURCEACCESS Normally forums are not acceptable as sources, since they are user generated;...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 81
Selasa, 2025-11-18 02:57:01

remote patrons." I'm not sure whether this source is acceptable per wp:SOURCEACCESS. The first sentence of the policy section says that "...'anyone should...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 364
Senin, 2022-01-31 11:11:51

easy to check and/or correct (like an iNat observation)? Yes. Per WP:SOURCEACCESS and WP:SOURCETYPES. Wikipedia articles should (in theory) be based on...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 371
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 14:52:10

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, but WP:SOURCEACCESS means there is some work required to get hold of them. I had a look at...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 166
Kamis, 2023-07-27 21:41:01

viewer is necessary to view the content does not detract from that (WP:SOURCEACCESS), although it would be optimal if no special plugin or viewer were required...

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Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 June
Rabu, 2011-03-23 13:08:11

not ZjarriRrethues's fault that you don't have access to it (see WP:SOURCEACCESS), and it's not his fault it's not in English (see WP:NONENG).—S Marshall...

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Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2022 June
Selasa, 2022-05-31 07:01:20

notability-indicating sources that are not currently named in the article. WP:SOURCEACCESS Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 202
Selasa, 2023-05-09 16:43:06

Darkfrog24 (talk) 05:04, 28 January 2016 (UTC) The rules in question are WP:SOURCEACCESS for non-online sources and WP:NONENG for non-English sources. Again,...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 333
Rabu, 2023-03-22 18:17:37

which can be obtained in a library, on back issue or otherwise. See WP:SOURCEACCESS. When you do cite it with full attribution, e.g., providing the date...

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Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 February
Rabu, 2011-03-23 13:13:07

how fair it is that a source be one that must be bought to view. WP:SOURCEACCESS does address this to a degree where it states "The principle of verifiability...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 518
Minggu, 2016-12-04 22:03:59

paywalls, so a paywall shouldn't be a reason not to use a source. See WP:SOURCEACCESS on this. Obviously, if there are two equally reliable sources available...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 492
Sabtu, 2023-03-25 04:31:25

establish notability as much as equivalent online sources. Please see WP:SOURCEACCESS and Wikipedia:Offline sources on this. Of course, it's difficult for...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 664
Sabtu, 2022-01-15 10:13:21

(UTC) Hi Majorsongs2. Further on to what 331dot writes, please see WP:SOURCEACCESS and Wikipedia:Offline sources. We require that information in articles...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 78
Sabtu, 2023-03-25 08:23:01

verification easier, but they are not required at all. Please see WP:SOURCEACCESS, Wikipedia:Offline sources and Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Cost.--Fuhghettaboutit...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 502
Kamis, 2016-07-14 11:02:31

absolutely acceptable to use sources that are not available online. See WP:SOURCEACCESS on this. What you can do to aid verification is to add a quote from the...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 597
Sabtu, 2022-01-15 10:15:57

Sources behind paywalls are perfectly acceptable, CelluloidJam. See WP:SOURCEACCESS on this. Many of the best sources, such as scholarly journal articles...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 116
Kamis, 2026-04-16 19:42:41

of templates. Jc3s5h (talk) 16:29, 21 February 2012 (UTC) S_Q, see WP:SOURCEACCESS -- there is no requirement that a source be available on-line. However...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 237
Rabu, 2025-10-15 01:12:34

that sources be available online, only that they be verifiable. See WP:SOURCEACCESS. You would of course be citing the source as Channel 4 News, and not...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 217
Minggu, 2023-07-09 22:12:03

WP:V make it unverifiable. The relevant sections are WP:NOENG and WP:SOURCEACCESS. If its in another language and/or not easily available, WP:V allows...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 276
Jumat, 2023-03-03 10:51:50

that we do not require sources cited in an article to be online (see WP:SOURCEACCESS), and both newspaper articles can be cited just noting information about...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 467
Sabtu, 2016-04-02 11:24:22

Gab4gab (talk) 17:41, 28 March 2016 (UTC) On that, Gab4gab, see WP:SOURCEACCESS. We do not require sources to be freely accessible. A more suitable template...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 346
Kamis, 2023-03-16 21:26:16

• contribs) 10:33, June 21, 2021 (UTC) As you will see at Wikipedia:SOURCEACCESS, there is no requirement that a source be viewable online to be considered...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 59
Kamis, 2023-02-09 03:27:50

to do so. NtheP (talk) 17:14, 2 December 2012 (UTC) Good question. WP:SOURCEACCESS speaks of material in print in libraries for instance. Noticeboards such...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive148
Senin, 2022-05-16 04:49:11

content that has to be verifiable, not sources). Please have a look at WP:SOURCEACCESS. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 19:11, 2 April 2012 (UTC) Practice in the past...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 173
Jumat, 2022-02-18 08:48:23

sources are not available online or are behind a paywall. Please see WP:SOURCEACCESS, Wikipedia:Offline sources and Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Cost. So, if...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 122
Jumat, 2024-11-08 01:11:09

which are not available online. Please see Wikipedia:Offline sources, WP:SOURCEACCESS and Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Cost. You do no necessarily need to cite...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive108
Selasa, 2025-09-23 19:57:05

it doesn't have to be available online for it to be verifiable. WP:SOURCEACCESS is clear about it. There is commonly confusion about this; I recently...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 128
Senin, 2023-01-30 14:58:17

to cite reliable published sources that are not online. Please see WP:SOURCEACCESS, Wikipedia:Offline sources and Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Cost. Best...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 119
Sabtu, 2023-02-11 03:36:18

discussion, one of the editors defending the use of the book as RS claims WP:SOURCEACCESS could be used to keep using the book.) The book is only legally accesible...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive223
Selasa, 2023-03-14 20:20:12

but I guess better late than never. But back to your request, see WP:SOURCEACCESS, specifically this: Do not reject sources just because they are hard...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive144
Jumat, 2023-04-21 23:01:11

user Darkness Shines is removing the content completely disregarding WP:SOURCEACCESS and rather being uncivil in editsummaries to another editor. --lTopGunl...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive226
Selasa, 2026-03-10 16:59:28

including it. But the issue can be construed in a different way. WP:SOURCEACCESS makes it clear that sources do not have to be readily available on-line...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive247
Senin, 2024-11-04 19:49:24

effectively pro-Putin?--Brian Dell (talk) 05:33, 21 October 2016 (UTC) WP:SOURCEACCESS is what matters for that particular issue. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 05:35...

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Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard/Archive 16
Jumat, 2025-02-28 13:24:20

Cordless Larry (talk) 10:03, 6 August 2010 (UTC) Finally, note that WP:SOURCEACCESS makes clear that just because a source is not open-access, doesn't mean...

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Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2022 June 10
Minggu, 2022-06-19 19:17:29

notability-indicating sources that are not currently named in the article. WP:SOURCEACCESS Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive91
Kamis, 2023-02-09 17:08:46

any other editors so far have been able to verify this reference. WP:SOURCEACCESS seems to apply, in that being unable to access a source is not a valid...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 186
Sabtu, 2023-04-15 00:24:20

should not be removed merely due to linkrot. The relevant policy is WP:SOURCEACCESS. The fact that a link has rotted does not mean the content is unverifiable...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1119
Jumat, 2022-05-20 12:57:43

(UTC) Easy access isn't a necessary condition for use of sources, per WP:SOURCEACCESS, though it's obviously preferable, Stocatta. In this case, it seems that...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive158
Minggu, 2026-04-19 20:38:34

thinks a source must be available for free on-line can be directed to WP:SOURCEACCESS. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 12:23, 28 July 2012 (UTC) According to WP:BLPPRIMARY...

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Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 June 8
Jumat, 2024-10-18 00:44:03

not ZjarriRrethues's fault that you don't have access to it (see WP:SOURCEACCESS), and it's not his fault it's not in English (see WP:NONENG).—S Marshall...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive163
Selasa, 2024-07-09 13:23:56

dubious -- not a single one is clickable. This is perhaps taking WP:SOURCEACCESS to an extreme. I'm torn as to what to do here; I'm tempted to stubbify...

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Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance/archive115
Minggu, 2023-04-09 01:28:15

user who added the source with complete information going against WP:SOURCEACCESS. And I didn't call him a vandal, but his reckless blanking of sourced...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of London Monopoly locations/archive1
Selasa, 2017-04-11 07:33:23

Monopoly board from that vintage if they have the money (which per WP:SOURCEACCESS is okay) and verify that what is on the website (and, one presumes, what...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1113
Selasa, 2026-03-03 02:50:19

00:58, 21 June 2021 (UTC) Welcome to the Teahouse, TipsyElephant! WP:SOURCEACCESS may be helpful to you. You should probably have access to the source...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request/Archive 22
Kamis, 2024-08-29 22:34:09

my first request, so please bear with me. I was redirected here by WP:SOURCEACCESS. There's an issue on CSI: Cyber (edit | talk | history | links | watch...

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Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 February 12
Rabu, 2022-02-16 15:19:12

how fair it is that a source be one that must be bought to view. WP:SOURCEACCESS does address this to a degree where it states "The principle of verifiability...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1123
Jumat, 2023-04-21 22:52:40

3 September 2021 (UTC) @Riverblade: The relevant policy here is WP:Sourceaccess which states "Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult...

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Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Archive 26
Jumat, 2026-03-20 03:59:26

explained in the Wikipedia pillar policy, Wikipedia:Verifiability, WP:SOURCEACCESS "The principle of verifiability implies nothing about ease of access...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1107
Rabu, 2026-04-01 22:42:14

image of the newspaper article from the Commons will not matter. See WP:SOURCEACCESS. For purposes of making those citations in any draft you create, I suggest...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive240
Jumat, 2023-03-10 21:29:57

But it's not a problem if there are sources not available on-line (WP:SOURCEACCESS). Nomoskedasticity (talk) 13:08, 13 June 2016 (UTC) Oh yes I know they...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive317
Rabu, 2026-01-14 03:35:21

requirement that books should be available in Google Books; please see the WP:SOURCEACCESS section of WP:V" "Do not reject reliable sources just because they are...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive249
Kamis, 2023-02-09 17:01:48

that a source be easily accessible, e.g. clickable/on-line -- see WP:SOURCEACCESS -- but again that's not meant to imply that D&B can be used even if most...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1109
Jumat, 2023-01-20 07:22:13

"(online)" above, please note that source do not have to be online. See WP:SOURCEACCESS. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:28, 24 May 2021 (UTC) Thank...

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Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests/Archive 122
Jumat, 2024-10-18 01:43:27

(talk) 00:44, 10 August 2015 (UTC) Offline sources are fine, see WP:SOURCEACCESS for guidance. Using the ProveIt gadget in preferences makes entering...

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Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Archive 219
Jumat, 2022-06-24 21:39:59

believes there may be confusion between WP Guidelines. WP:N, WP:SPS, WP:SOURCEACCESS and finally WP:NPOSSIBLE which appears was never followed by editors...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/March 2013
Rabu, 2013-05-01 06:17:47

which cannot now be viewed. A verifiable citation is needed here: see WP:SOURCEACCESS International station opens There are six paragraphs in this section...

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Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Archive 56
Kamis, 2026-04-23 14:57:30

everyone is not the responsibility of Wikipedia editors. Please see WP:SOURCEACCESS. Just as the user "disagrees with the addition of information citing...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/January 2013
Jumat, 2013-03-01 04:19:54

available to the public in some form". Under that definition and WP:SOURCEACCESS, since it's available in a university library I'd say it qualifies as...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 454
Senin, 2024-11-04 23:24:20

is not an RS. Slatersteven (talk) 15:30, 21 October 2024 (UTC) See WP:SOURCEACCESS, how accessible a source is has nothing to do with how reliable it is...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/December 2023
Senin, 2024-01-01 07:25:17

don't think it would be worthwhile to link them, especially since WP:SOURCEACCESS permits the use of offline sources. SounderBruce 00:23, 20 December 2023...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 183
Rabu, 2025-05-07 04:46:57

deleting them all leaving content unsourced be inconsistent with WP:SOURCEACCESS? Betty Logan (talk) 02:25, 23 May 2023 (UTC) The proposal is to delete...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 426
Jumat, 2024-10-04 07:35:53

for Alanis? ;-) BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 19:57, 8 February 2024 (UTC) And WP:SOURCEACCESS which is part of WP:V says "Do not reject reliable sources just because...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2023 May 1
Rabu, 2023-05-10 19:22:38

who don't live in Greece, it doesn't mean that no one can verify. WP:SOURCEACCESS exists for this reason. The editor who added the magazine citation to...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1203
Kamis, 2024-09-12 03:34:16

any questions. Qcne (talk) 08:49, 17 October 2023 (UTC) Comment Per WP:SOURCEACCESS you should not be rejecting on this basis. Polyamorph (talk) 11:16, 18...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2023 October 16
Selasa, 2023-10-24 05:52:37

being in French).--Kung Fu Man (talk) 02:15, 4 October 2023 (UTC) N WP:SOURCEACCESS + N WP:NONENG. RodRabelo7 (talk) 02:48, 4 October 2023 (UTC) You appear...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1258
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 06:30:57

You're certainly welcome to use offline sources, as explained at WP:SOURCEACCESS. Sources available via public libraries and online sources that aren't...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 515
Rabu, 2026-05-20 00:43:48

could go and verify the grave itself and that would be inline with WP:SOURCEACCESS, so the image is just a courtesy link. It's really no different than...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 437
Senin, 2024-07-22 00:41:37

Discord chat room being private and inaccessible doesn't run afoul of WP:SOURCEACCESS? How does one verify the claims made? Secondly, do the chat rooms have...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 458
Selasa, 2025-01-07 18:39:18

repeat advertising. How expensive a source is doesn't matter, see WP:SOURCEACCESS. As per my previous comment the language used and it's time needs to...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 504
Kamis, 2026-01-22 00:33:05

always an issue, but sources don't have to be easy to access (see WP: SOURCEACCESS). Either way archive.today appears to be able to archive Instagram links...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 512
Selasa, 2026-04-14 00:46:50

public in some form, and still exists, is considered published. Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, that you would have to go to the park to read the plaque doesn't disqualify...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1238
Minggu, 2024-10-27 02:13:05

allowed to use sources that are more difficult or costly to find, see WP:SOURCEACCESS. In some cases the newspaper in question has a website hosting its own...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2026 April 26
Senin, 2026-05-04 12:28:34

2024 election. Reliable sources are not disqualified by access cost (WP:SOURCEACCESS, WP:PAYWALL), and the record runs well beyond "one and local"; the Washington...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2026 April 15
Kamis, 2026-04-23 13:51:58

Bearian (talk) 14:37, 19 April 2026 (UTC) Keep - Consistent with WP:SOURCEACCESS, additional interviews, profiles, and academic indexing. Tarek Jabr (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2025 November 29
Minggu, 2025-12-07 23:07:43

received basically the same amount of coverage. Also, offline sources (WP:SOURCEACCESS) are also acceptable and should not be dismissed because some people...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 462
Sabtu, 2025-11-08 16:20:28

assessment is probably right. Paywalled content is acceptable, see WP:SOURCEACCESS (and another opportunity to mention WP:WikiProject Resource Exchange...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2023 July 31
Selasa, 2023-08-08 08:22:30

of offline references; I default to trusting them for now. See the WP:SOURCEACCESS section of WP:V which is further explained in the Offline sources essay...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2024 April 17
Kamis, 2024-04-25 20:55:14

for being unable to access the first two sources, see WP:PAYWALL/WP:SOURCEACCESS. I have access to the book and it contains a full chapter on Exotel,...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 485
Kamis, 2025-09-25 22:01:27

within WP:NEWSORG and WP:RS guidelines when properly attributed. Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, many mainstream publications (including Forbes, TechCrunch, and local...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2024 January 3
Sabtu, 2024-07-13 00:51:29

with your computer? If you are unable to access a source, the policy WP:SOURCEACCESS applies. It says "Do not reject reliable sources just because they are...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 448
Senin, 2026-04-06 22:14:25

difficult something is to access doesn't effect reliability, see WP:SOURCEACCESS. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 22:40, 12 August 2024 (UTC) This...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 429
Kamis, 2024-08-01 23:23:51

anyway to still access the source then this isn't a reliability issue (WP:Sourceaccess). Even if an issue comes up with internet archive another third party...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2024 March 6
Jumat, 2024-03-15 05:46:58

of the sources aren't readily available online, but of course per WP:SOURCEACCESS there's no requirement that they be. Nom should withdraw this ill-considered...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 46
Minggu, 2026-03-22 15:38:49

older and foreign topics"? We aleady have the policies WP:NONENG and WP:SOURCEACCESS. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:36, 22 February 2023 (UTC) Phil Bridger - I think...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive367
Minggu, 2025-07-06 03:12:33

(talk • contribs) 03:02, 19 April 2025 (UTC) Re non-working links see WP:SOURCEACCESS. Also note that you're referring to someone who is no longer pertinent...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2024 December 20
Sabtu, 2024-12-28 05:27:16

online (that I can find), so I can't assess it. I'm well aware per WP:SOURCEACCESS that online availability or the lack thereof does not affect the quality...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2024 February 27
Rabu, 2024-03-06 06:26:59

in that. ⚒️MinecraftPlayer321⚒️ | 💬 01:36, 29 February 2024 (UTC) WP:SOURCEACCESS and WP:OFFLINE. Innisfree987 (talk) 02:13, 29 February 2024 (UTC) Delete...

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Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2025 August 6
Minggu, 2025-08-10 07:01:28

in fact, policy based, even if they didn't reference WP:PAYWALL (aka SOURCEACCESS) or WP:OFFLINE. The consensus at that time was Keep, and the non-admin...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1179
Selasa, 2023-02-28 15:57:19

are often behind paywalls or not available online, Buryman49. See WP:SOURCEACCESS on this. Cordless Larry (talk) 18:07, 4 February 2023 (UTC) If this is...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1228
Jumat, 2024-07-12 02:45:06

IPPON01 (talk) 09:28, 8 July 2024 (UTC) IPPON01 extending the idea of WP:SOURCEACCESS, sources shouldn't necessarily be easy to verify. So probably okay. Are...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 189
Kamis, 2024-07-25 13:14:03

sources are actually notable (eg, WP:CONTEXTMATTERS). Also despite WP:SOURCEACCESS some things like trade publications available only to a limited audience...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1287
Selasa, 2026-03-24 02:33:50

Sources don't need to be available online to be acceptable (see WP:SOURCEACCESS), but they do need to have been published in some form. Could you give...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1281
Kamis, 2026-02-26 19:45:10

As I wrote above, "Sources don't need to be available online". See WP:SOURCEACCESS for more on this. Cordless Larry (talk) 17:16, 22 January 2026 (UTC)...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1188
Selasa, 2024-05-21 22:57:58

WP:NOENG) and it is OK to use sources that are difficult to access (see WP:SOURCEACCESS). A newspaper of record is almost certainly going to be a reliable source...

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Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Archive.is RFC 5
Kamis, 2026-05-28 09:31:48

As they can't be accessed by hundreds of millions of people, or is WP:SOURCEACCESS relevant?. The DDoSing is a relevant issue, that some people can't access...

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Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2025 August
Kamis, 2025-07-31 07:01:23

in fact, policy based, even if they didn't reference WP:PAYWALL (aka SOURCEACCESS) or WP:OFFLINE. The consensus at that time was Keep, and the non-admin...

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