User:Superb Owl/Reliable Source Engine

• Reliable Source Engine (mostly news sites)
  • without paywalls (all articles free to read)
• Fact-check sites (just IFCN members)

Search tips: may have to try different search terms to get more/better results - much narrower than regular Google

These custom Google Search engines search mostly generally reliable () perennial sources. They should not include sources rated as no consensus on reliability (or as unreliable) and filter out op-eds when possible. See below for more details

See also

• Wikipedia:Advanced source searching#Custom search engines

Appendix

Last update

July 15, 2024

{{Search for expanded}} template

Sources used

Full list available in different formats on Github

Sources excluded

Full list of Opinion/op-eds, blogs, commentary, editorials and forums excluded available in different formats on Github

I omitted some sources with because:

1. Can't filter to a specific time period when content was most reliable using Google (Bing Custom Search API might be able to though...)
   1. CNET (before October 2020)
   2. ZDNET (before October 2020)
   3. Newsweek (before 2013)
   4. The Independent - concern by editors starting in March 2016, though very close to including anyway
   5. The Weekly Standard – US opinion magazine (1995–2018), the domain is inactive and redirects to an unreliable source, so the main issues is finding a domain to search (https://web.archive.org/web/20181231145630/https://www.weeklystandard.com/ did not work)
2. Confusing to differentiate between opinion (or low-quality information) and news, at least for beginners (looking for AI-assisted search tool that could enable the inclusion of the reliable content from these sources)
   1. Forbes (articles written by 'contributors' are unreliable)
   2. Jacobin - difficult to tell blog from article
   3. IGN - too many caveats to memorize
   4. Space.com (recommended to check qualifications of each author)
   5. Yahoo! News (aggregates news from a number of sources, including very unreliable ones)
3. Not reliable for all political topics
   1. ADL.org - not reliable for Israel/Palestine
   2. Business Insider - just reliable for culture
   3. HuffPost – American online news aggregator and blog
   4. The Jewish Chronicle - removed due to pre-2010 caveat and politics flags
   5. Kommersant – Russian daily newspaper
   6. Rolling Stone (magazine) – American monthly magazinePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
   7. South China Morning Post – Hong Kong newspaper
   8. Sixth Tone – State-owned English-language online magazine in China
   9. TheWrap – American entertainment and media news website - not evaluated for reliability on politics (and includes significant politics coverage)
4. To avoid explicit content ('safe search' is also turned on for this search engine)
   1. AVN (magazine) – American magazine covering adult entertainment
   2. Playboy – American lifestyle and entertainment magazine
5. Video Game-specific sites
   1. People Make Games - removed and suggested for inclusion on the custom Video game search engine (though YouTube might not be indexable like other sites)
6. Unclear whether it would be helpful:
   1. Aon (company) – British multinational corporation - can't find weather-specific page
   2. Geographic Names Information System – Geographical database - useful in this kind of search engine?

Other sources added and considered

(beyond the perennials sources with a )

Obviously reliable sources not listed as 'Perennial'

1. Nature (added)
2. Science (added)
3. The Lancet (added)

Outlets that focus on politics

1. Foreign Policy (added)
2. Foreign Affairs (added)
3. Ballotpedia

Outlets that focus on the media (given the importance of media criticism for building Wikipedia)

1. Poynter (added)
2. Columbia Journalism Review (added)
3. Nieman Lab (added)
4. Editor & Publisher (added)
5. Current (added)
6. Tow Center for Digital Journalism (added)
7. American Press Institute (added)
8. Knight Foundation (added)
9. Media and Journalism Research Center (added)

Non-profit outlets with some accountability as members in:

1. Institute for Nonprofit News (see Talk:Using INN membership for reliability discussions?)
   1. KQED (added)
   2. WNYC (added)
   3. WFAE (added)
   4. WABE (added)
   5. WHYY (added)
   6. CalMatters (added)
   7. Texas Tribune (added)
   8. Chronicle of Philanthropy (added)
   9. Pulitzer Center (added)
   10. OpenSecrets (added)
   11. Nevada Public Radio (added)
2. Global Investigative Journalism Network (see Talk:Should GIJN membership indicate general reliability?)
   1. https://gijn.org/stories/ (added)
   2. INN (added)
3. International Fact-checking network (English language sites added only to Fact-checking search engine) See WP:IFCN for discussions on its general reliability in evaluating fact-checking sites

Regional Newspapers of Record

1. Chicago Tribune (added)
2. SF Chronicle (added)
3. Seattle Times (added)

Public broadcasters

1. List of public broadcasters by country (that are listed as having editorial independence from the government by State Media Monitor and have a Wikipedia article)
   1. English-language outlets (or sections) - included
      1. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (added)
      2. CBC (added)
      3. Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (added)
      4. PBS (added)
      5. Channel Four Television Corporation (added)
      6. Special Broadcasting Service (added)
      7. Radio New Zealand (added)
      8. Television New Zealand (added)
      9. Pacific Media Network (added)
      10. Swissinfo by Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (added)
      11. Radio Slovenia International - by RTVSLO (added)
      12. https://www.kbs-america.com/ by Korean Broadcasting System (added)
      13. Yleisradio (added)
      14. EFE (added)
      15. Radio France (added)
      16. France 24 (added) parent: France Médias Monde
      17. Arte
   2. Not included (but would if there were an English section)
      1. ORF (broadcaster)
      2. S4C
      3. Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation
      4. Belgischer Rundfunk
      5. RTBF
      6. Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie
      7. Česká televize
      8. Czech Radio
      9. DR (broadcaster)
      10. https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_2_Danmark
      11. Eesti Rahvusringhääling
      12. France Télévisions
      13. ARD (broadcaster)
      14. ZDF
      15. Latvian Television
      16. Lithuanian National Radio and Television
      17. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtensteinischer_Rundfunk
      18. Teleradio-Moldova
      19. Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (organization)
      20. RTCG
      21. NRK
      22. Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
      23. EITB
      24. Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals
      25. Valencian Media Corporation
      26. Radiotelevisión del Principado de Asturias
      27. Sveriges Radio
      28. Sveriges Television
      29. Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company

Required by bodies that enforce journalistic standards

1. IPSO - early discussion indicates not enough for general reliability given inconsistent enforcement and many publications under this jurisdiction not deemed generally reliable by editors

Next steps

1. Update Templates (see above prototype of 'Search for expanded')
   1. Change WRS description from: 'a Google search that only searches sites vetted by Wikipedians.' to 'a Google search limited to hundreds of higher-quality sources' for:
      1. Template:Find sources (proposed)
      2. Template:Find sources multi
      3. Template:Find general sources
      4. Template:Find video game sources
2. Helping to update WP:WRS
   1. Removing perennial sources rated as less reliable and updating a few domains
   2. Submit xml files with sources to add and exclude
   3. Suggest update to UI on the search engine to link back to documentation page?