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Exhibit 1035

Wikipedia:Reliable sources (content guideline)

Exhibit 1035 ยท Policy page

Wikipedia:Reliable sources (content guideline)

Articles should be based on reliable, independent, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy.

The guideline states that articles should be based on reliable, independent, published sources, that reliability depends on context, and that no source is always reliable or always unreliable for everything. It labels itself a content guideline; the sourcing policy is Verifiability. It points to the Reliable sources noticeboard for case-by-case questions.

Source
English Wikipedia (community-edited guideline)
Date
archive capture 1 January 2026
Quoted from
Overview
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources
Accessed
2026-11-10
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Note
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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.