WikiQueer:Articles with a single source

According to WikiQueer's general notablity guideline, a topic is presumed to be notable if it has received significant coverage in reliable secondary source that are independent of the subject.

Following this guideline, a subject for which only one source can be cited is unlikely to merit a standalone article. (Remember: Notability is concerned with whether sufficient sources exist, not merely how many have already been cited in the current version of the article.)

There are other problems inherent to an article containing a single source.


 * Copyright violations: If an article has just one source, it may be an exact copy of the source provided, or a derivative work of that source, and therefore a copyright violation; mere paraphrasing, without sufficient originality, may not be enough to avoid copyright infringement. Under the doctrine of substantial similarity, a work can be found to infringe copyright even if the wording of text has been changed.  WikiQueer's Copyright FAQ recommends using multiple sources to avoid substantial similarity infringement.


 * Any such articles that are not copyright violations (for example, because the infringed source is in the public domain) may still constitute plagiarism.

Lone source published by the article's subject
Some of the least permissible articles are those whose lone source cited is published by the article's subject. This constitutes a conflict of interest. Any company, organization, group, or individual interest has the ability to publish promotional material about itself. Such self-published sources do not demonstrate that people independent of the subject consider it notable enough to be worthy of attention. Therefore, self-published sources cannot be used to establish notability. In some cases, information may be taken from a self-published source after notability has been established.

An article that relies entirely on information from the subject itself should be deleted, possibly under speedy deletion criteria G11.

Tagging problematic articles
The template onesource can be added to the top of articles with one source. For sections, the template can be added.

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