User:Lexein/Good news sources

Good news sources have at least the following characteristics:

Publication

 * Major publisher
 * Editorial staff and factcheckers


 * Medium:
 * Main publication
 * Blog attached to the main publication


 * Byline with real name, or well known "blown" pseudonym
 * Date
 * Non-ephemeral- is this archive-able by Archive.org, Webcitation.org, or archive.is? Or is it blocked with robots.txt or archiver detection tricks? If the site is guaranteed to disappear despite anyone's best efforts, it cannot be considered reliable as a source for Wikipedia.

Author

 * If the author of the published piece is a WP:N notable author
 * If the author has published many works in this or other publications
 * If the author has been discussed in other reliable sources
 * If the author has been cited by other reliable sources

Enough

 * Not a mere echo of a press release
 * Non-trivial mention of topic: greater than 2 paragraphs

Discusses

 * If it's a two-topic, say "Some company" and "some subject", cover both separately, and together, rather than only together.

Fact checks

 * Cites more than one source
 * If press release,
 * Has additional comment from the press release source, which is not in the press release
 * Has additional comment from related industry experts or analysts
 * Getting verification from additional sources
 * Verify the truth value of the claim(s) in the press release
 * Analyze the meaning, impact, relevance, etc of the press release

This is a first pass. My intention is to create a "scoring" or "grading" system for a particular news item, from 0/10, to 10/10.

Lexein (talk) 13:25, 21 October 2012 (UTC)