Talk:Laura Smith (British politician)

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Political controversy July 2019[edit]

A user has suggested [1] that the article from order-order.com [2] is not a reliable source for a living person's biography page. The user argues that order-order.com is an "anti-establishment" "rightwing" "blog" and therefore is unreliable.

The counter-argument is that: (1) Being "anti-establishment" or "rightwing" *does not* necessarily make a source "unreliable". (2) In the case of order-order.com, they hold a 9/9 rating from journalism industry monitor NewsGuard for meeting all 9 of the standards for transparency and credibility: [3]. Clearly, That kind of validation must carry more weight than any individual's non-objective opinion? (3) The article in question simply links two established and verifiable facts and points out their obvious incompatibility.

On that basis, I propose that the citation remains. Gunnersaurus43 (talk) 14:10, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note I did not say that the blog was unreliable merely because it was anti-establishment and right-wing. All sources have slants. The difficulty comes when a source's bias creeps excessively into its content, evident here when you read the source's "about" page which outright declares it has no interest in objective impartiality. I can't read the NewsGuard item, it just redirects me to install the browser extension. I'll post at the reliable sources noticeboard later. – Teratix 00:46, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Teratix#Laura_Smith_%28politician%29
  2. ^ "Anti Private School Labour MP Founded Private School Tutoring Company". OrderOrder.com. 12 July 2019.
  3. ^ https://api.newsguardtech.com/8BCDC2D01FE976E0F0040090BF5288DD4FAAD84EF2A98CD4C38524C920B6873EB9BE63BEAF60D520D4C4A914A875A7A9E31B17569E54F0AE

Rename[edit]

I have renamed this article to distinguish it from the new article titled (Laura Smith (Canadian politician)). Moondragon21 - Moondragon21 08:496, 3 June 2022(UTC)