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Here's a checklist to help organize your evaluation of a source.
Remember, this checklist is useful to identify whether a source is likely to be appropriate for general use in an average article. No source is always unreliable for every statement, and no source is always reliable for any statement. A source can only be considered reliable when the source's qualities are compared against the qualities editors want to see for a specific statement.