Wikipedia talk:Tip of the day/Archive 14

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Wikipedia:CopyPatrol and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 December 24 § Wikipedia:CopyPatrol until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 01:18, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

When you go through the tutorial entitled Introduction to referencing with VisualEditor/reliable sources" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing_with_VisualEditor/reliable_sources_quiz) and try the quiz, you get 10 questions as to whether a source is or is not "adequately supported by a reliable source." Although each source is complete as far as information, what the quiz directions don't tell you is that to answer questions correctly, you have to go to the online source and not merely look at the information about the source in the question. Otherwise, you'll miss important clues about the reliability of the source in that question and get marked wrong, but not understand why. For example, going to the onlince source could reveal an article writer's lack of professional status even in a widely respected journal that you'd never know about just from looking at the source in the question. Augnablik (talk) 14:19, 20 May 2024 (UTC)