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How does sources too closely related to the subject potentially prevent an article from being verifiable and neutral? You need to answer this question. 86.29.64.45 ( talk) 20:02, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
People want to make themselves and their friends and associates look good, and they want to make their competitors and enemies look bad. Therefore, nobody is allowed to write about themselves, or their friends or associates, or their enemies or competitors. Only people who can't benefit from your success or happiness, and can't benefit from your failure or unhappiness either, are allowed to write about you. TooManyFingers ( talk) 23:23, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
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Since this template is named {{ Third-party}}, the bolded link should reflect that and link to our page on third-party sources at Wikipedia:Identifying and using independent sources. We already have {{ Self-published}} which uses the link currently used in this template, making it redundant. I've mocked-up the changes in this template's sandbox under Template:Third-party/sandbox ( this version). -- Netoholic @ 12:55, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
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Please add {{ find sources mainspace}} to the template. Thanks. Jalen Folf (talk) 23:58, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
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I just used this template on Jeddah International Book Fair. I wanted to include a reason (and did; you can see it in the source), but this template does not have a reason= or talk= parameter. Both would be nice, though I think the former would be more useful in this case. If the second sentence began "Specifically,..." followed by the talk param, that would be good.
Separately, a vaguer request on wikilinks. The bold link to WP:BLOGS at the top of the template was inappropriate to my application; the sources are not exactly self-published, but they are clearly non-independent. Wikipedia:Identifying and using independent sources#Third-party versus independent explicitly discusses this distinction. WP:IS, WP:NOTRELIABLE or WP:QUESTIONABLE might be more generallyrelevant. I proposed a small change to the policy at WP:BLOGS to fit, we'll see if it gets consensus. Linking "reliable, independent, third-party sources" to Wikipedia:Identifying and using independent sources, and not Wikipedia:Identifying and using self-published sources or Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary and secondary sources or even Wikipedia:Reliable sources seems a bit arbitrary. I suspect the essay space has expanded since anyone reviewed the link targets, and the template might need a link-target update. I'm willing to write out a more specific request if there is agreement on an update. HLHJ ( talk) 21:58, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
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