Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Truth (painting)
Newross keeps making reference to press releases as if they somehow poison all the sources. When Microsoft issues a press release about a new operating system (eg - Vista), that's news. When the White House issues a press release on the financial crisis, that's news. And once published in a RS, they are both acceptable here, for the same reason. They have been vetted.  The White House Press Secretary|Press Secretary is a glorified publicist for the White House and the administration, spin doctoring with the best of them. What newspapers and journalists do, as independent, reliable, and neutral analysts and publishers of information, is to fact check the information and apply editorial oversight regardless of the origin of the information. Be it from Bernie Madoff, the White House, the man on the street, or a publisher of PR. That vetting process makes it a reliable source and that's why they are secondary sources. APK is absolutely correct in his arguments on blogs specific to this issue. Unreliable and unacceptable blogs are those that anyone can edit without any editorial oversight, for example reader comments attached to articles or opinion pieces. These cited newspaper "blogs" (eg - National Review and LA Times) are written by professional journalists as part of their job and are under editorial oversight, and are therefore |reliable sources. Un-vetted and unexamined PR is, I agree, usually unacceptable, except in relation to its self. The RS citations provided in the article and here more than satisfy any reasonable requirement for |verifiability. I have seen articles kept at AfD with considerably less RS provided. The press release and blog oppositional arguments should be rejected as not compelling, and not grounded in policy or guidelines. If the only sources were the press releases, and the showing was canceled, then I would be voting to delete also. The outrage as reliably reported made this notable, not the PR
— User:Becksguy, 11:27, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:V (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)