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{{seealso|Wikipedia:Reliable sources#Statements of opinion}}
{{policy shortcut|WP:ABOUTSELF|WP:TWITTER|WP:SOCIALMEDIA}}
{{Merge from|section=yes|Wikipedia:Reliable sources#Self-published and questionable sources as sources on themselves|Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Using the subject as a self-published source|date=December 2023|reason=Near-exact duplicate sections, even down to the list items.|discuss=Wikipedia talk:Verifiability#Merge WP:SELFSOURCE to WP:ABOUTSELF}}
Self-published and questionable sources may be used as sources of information '''about themselves''', usually in articles about themselves or their activities, without the self-published source requirement that they are established experts in the field, so long as:
# the material is neither unduly self-serving nor an [[Wikipedia:Verifiability#Exceptional claims require exceptional sources|exceptional claim]];
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