Talk:Gabre Heard

Use of fringe source
The source that is currently being used in the article regarding the slapping incident is unverified by both major Somali and non Somali news outlets. Its claimed by a single news org whose reports have little credibility as can be seen in the 'Iran media' section of the Propaganda war in Somalia article. Therefore this singulary source falls under the textbook definition of extremist and fringe sources, whose only legitimate place on wikipedia would be on a article about Press-tv itself or an article discussing Press-tv's MO, the latter is already covered on the aforementioned Propaganda war article. Exceptional claims require reliable sources of the same caliber, but since Press-tv is the only medium that made that particular claim, verified by none of the dozen other media outlets involved in this conflict, i will remove the mention of that unverified incident since it has no legitimacy being here.--Scoobycentric (talk) 15:13, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Good reasoning. The source definitely qualifies as an extremist & fringe source per WP:RS, as Press TV is the only mainstream source that claims this happened, and this news outlet has been identified by numerous other sources as being unreliable vis-a-vis the very conflict in Somalia which this particular edit pertains to. The Propaganda War in the War in Somalia article makes this plain. Middayexpress (talk) 00:04, 12 October 2009 (UTC)