Wikipedia:Verifiability: Difference between revisions

Some newspapers, magazines, and other news organizations host online [[WP:PRIMARY|columns]] they call [[blog]]s. For Wikipedia's purposes, breaking news stories are also considered to be primary sources (columns).
{{Disputed inline|WP:NEWSBLOG|date=July 2024|reason=Breaking news is not a type of news column. Also, this is redundant with multiple other policies and guidelines.}} These may be acceptable sources if the writers are professionals, but use them with caution because blogs may not be subject to the news organization's normal fact-checking process.{{efn|name="EXCEPTIONAL"|Note that any exceptional claim would require [[#Exceptional claims require exceptional sources|exceptional sources]].}} If a news organization publishes an [[WP:PRIMARY|opinion piece]] in a blog, attribute the statement to the writer, e.g. "Jane Smith wrote{{nbsp}}..." Never use the blog comments that are left by the readers as sources. For personal or group blogs that are {{em|not}} reliable sources, see {{section link||Self-published sources}} below.