# Talk:Battle of Jilib

Please do not link to news.yahoo.com and to articles issued by Reuters (also at alertnet.org) or the Associated Press. They're existing only two or three months and then disappear and are therefore worthless, except for the claim of making an edit. The same problem is with newspaper websites which are using the original newsfeed of Reuters or AP, e.g. Washington Post (partly, can be easily recognised by the AP/Reuters logo near the headline), Forbes, CBS, partly CNN.
Safe links newspapers and other media outlets which usually publish AP/Reuters news without editing but keep them include BBC News (news.bbc.co.uk) Al Jazeera, Jerusalem Post, Independent Online (South Africa). In the cases in which the original title of the news is still available a Google advanced search with the exact phrase might be successfull to find and restore those links. Links to BBC News articles are safe, they stay forever. Links to Washington Post articles which had been published in the print edition are also safe and can be recognised by date and pagenumber near the title and byline of the article! --213.155.224.232 19:34, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
What is Wikipedia's policy on using Voice of America as a reference? As you may know, Voice of America is officially controlled by the U.S. Government and therefore has questionable objectivity and reliability. --75.73.22.166 04:58, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

The bar of what is a reliable source is a very low one -- it's primary (& almost sole) purpose is to exclude fringe ideas & wingnut ravings that don't squarely fall under WP:NOR. In a nutshell, the Wikipedia guideline says "don't quote sources no one would quote with a straight face." One could raise the bar -- & doubtlessly everyone would agree that to do so would be a good thing -- but any wording that would do so ends up giving people would disagree with a tool to exclude the sources you agree with (& vice versa). So the Voice of America is considered a reliable source -- as is al-Jazeera, the Walta Information Center & many other sources. -- llywrch 01:07, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the requirements of the GA criteria. I'm specifically going over all of the "Conflicts, battles and military exercises" articles. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. Although the article is short, it is well-sourced. If you can, continue to expand the article with any available information that can be sourced. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I have edited the article history to reflect this review. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 07:30, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

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