| This is the Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector (UPSD), a user script that identifies various unreliable and potentially unreliable sources. This is not a tool to be mindlessly used.
- It does not cover every unreliable source out there. It is actually fairly bad at dealing with offline sources, like books and magazines.
- It does not answer whether a source should be used or not.
- It does not understand context. See common cleanup and non-problematic cases below for details.
- It is not perfect. See limitations below for details. See also the first 8 points of the CiteWatch disclaimer.
For example, Twitter is generally unreliable. If Twitter is used in an article, the script will only tell you that a generally unreliable source was used. It does not say that Twitter was used inappropriately, or that it shouldn't be used for that information. The script cannot tell the difference between a tweet by a random person or one by NASA.
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