Larry Sanger

And it's color-coded.

So the ones that can be used on Wikipedia as sources without attribution, except in footnotes, of course, are...

are green lit.

And the ones that I just named, they're all green lit, of course.

Then there's some that are, they've got a yellow background.

The ones that are yellow are, you can cite them, but it's better to cite another one instead.

Yes.

So academic repositories.

So they can be cited.

Articles in preprint services can be cited.

But generally speaking, you should try to find something that isn't.

And then the red ones are generally off limits, at least generally.

You're supposed to attribute only opinions to them.

And usually the way it works is they're not able to be used on Wikipedia at all.

In fact, that's true.

Most of the yellow ones as well in practice, in practice.

What if you... What the article is about is the state-sponsored propaganda.

What if it's... You're writing an article about a war in which that state is a participant, then it's actually pretty important that you...

that you'd be able to report about what their propaganda is, because that's like part of the story.

For sure, most of the stuff that they blacklist, if you go down the list, is either conservative or it's fringe in some other way.