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[edit] VoA - Six die in Nigeria church shooting
Could I please, once again ask you to reduce reliance on VoA as a source to an absolute minimum? I know they release material into the public domain, they have to — they are 100% funded by the U.S. government.
That is all the more reason not to import verbatim and require use of the {{VOA}} template. In this case, they have an additional two wounded individuals with zero indication where that comes from.
If you simply treat them as a regular source, taking the same pains to avoid plagiarism as you would with any other, I suspect you will be far less likely to unintentionally use loaded language or be biased to their POV. --Brian McNeil / talk 15:34, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Another thing that makes me uncomfortable about VOA is that, used in combination with a mainstream US or UK source, it's hard to judge how independent the two sources really are — since they don't have to credit VOA (just like some of them think they don't have to credit Wikipedia), and are more likely to take VOA info uncritically as they have similar perspectives. Using VOA and AJE one would have more confidence they're really independent, since AJE is less likely to drink the Kool-Aid (but if I'm using AJE and a US/UK source, the US/UK one I'd choose wouldn't be VOA). --Pi zero (talk) 15:54, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
