User talk:Josh.munson

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Hello, Josh.munson, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Sourcing
Hi! I wanted to give you some notes about the sources you've chosen for your article.


 * Medium is considered to be a self-published source, as anyone can post to this website. As such, the site isn't seen as a reliable source on Wikipedia.
 * Forbes magazine is OK as a source, however when it comes to the website you need to make sure that the posts aren't written by a contributor rather than a staff member. Forbes doesn't actually provide any verification or editorial oversight to their contributor posts, which has posed an issue in the past since there have been instances where the contributor posts have been wrong. Essentially these are seen as self-published blogs. In order to use this you'd have to show where the person who wrote the piece is seen as a reliable source. Offhand this doesn't look to be an issue since it's Kalev Leetaru, but you always have to be extremely careful with Forbes links. (On a side note you may be able to do this with the Medium source if you can prove that they're someone who is widely held as an authority, however offhand it doesn't look like they are.)
 * The Ted Talk video should be OK, but it may not be a bad idea to find a secondary source as well and/or to make sure that any major or potentially controversial claims pulled from the talk is attributed to the speaker, Eli Pariser.
 * Be a little careful for the Center for Mobile Communication Studies source.The link doesn't clearly state who wrote the piece, nor does the site say if the people who write for them are students or instructors. If it's students then it would likely not be seen as a reliable source unless the site provides very thorough editorial oversight and verification. I'm not saying that you shouldn't use it, just that you should make sure to investigate the source.
 * The Huffington Post has the same issues as Forbes in that they do have contributor blogs. Anything put out by official HuffPo staff is generally seen as usable, however anything put out by the contributors is typically not seen as usable unless you can show where the person is seen as a trusted authority.

I hope this helps! I wanted to let you know about the contributor part with the Forbes and HuffPo links, as that's not something that is really all that known outside Wikipedia. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:43, 27 June 2019 (UTC)