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Exhibit 1039

Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources (archive capture of 17 January 2019)

Exhibit 1039 ยท Policy page

Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources (archive capture of 17 January 2019)

Despite this, the source may be cited as a primary source if it is the topic of discussion, and the source may be used under WP:ABOUTSELF.

The page's definition of 'Deprecated' in January 2019 allows a deprecated source to be cited as a primary source if it is the topic of discussion; the 1 October 2026 capture does not carry that clause and adds an edit filter warning. The page was created on 28 July 2018 (first revision comment: 'Boldly creating a list of perennially discussed sources').

Source
English Wikipedia (community-edited information page)
Date
archive capture 17 January 2019
Quoted from
Status legend, Deprecated
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources
Accessed
2026-11-10
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding INF-3.9
Primary record A request for comment closed by volunteers on 8 February 2017 concluded that the Daily Mail is generally unreliable and its use as a reference generally prohibited, and the perennial-sources page's Daily Mail entry states that it was the first source to be deprecated. The page's definition of Deprecated in an archive capture of 17 January 2019 allows a deprecated source to be cited as a primary source when it is the topic of discussion, and the capture of 1 October 2026 does not carry that clause.