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Exhibit 1038

Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources (archive capture of 1 October 2026)

Exhibit 1038 ยท Policy page

Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources (archive capture of 1 October 2026)

There is community consensus from a request for comment to deprecate the source. The source is considered generally unreliable, and use of the source is generally prohibited.

The page summarizes prior community consensus on frequently discussed sources under five statuses: generally reliable, no consensus, generally unreliable, deprecated (by request-for-comment consensus) and blacklisted (by the spam blacklist after persistent abuse, with edits blocked technically). It describes itself as non-exhaustive. Entries cite the noticeboard discussions or requests for comment that produced the status.

Source
English Wikipedia (community-edited information page)
Date
archive capture 1 October 2026
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

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Finding INF-3.8
Primary record Wikipedia's policies base content on published, independent, reliable sources and presume a stand-alone article only for topics with significant coverage in independent reliable sources. Its perennial-sources page sorts sources into five statuses by community consensus. In the project's count of the page on 10 November 2026, the page had 497 rows: 472 carried a status icon (156 generally reliable, 112 no consensus, 148 generally unreliable and 56 deprecated) and 25 were blacklisted.
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.