Citable Sources

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Citable Sources for wiki pages are reliable and have verifiable information.

EditAcceptable Sources for Citation

  • Established sites (IGN.com, Gamespy.com, 1up.com), blogs (Huffington Post), videos (YouTube, Vimeo), or offline printings (books, etc.).
  • Printed content (books), eBooks, or Kindle versions of printed material.
  • Peer-reviewed articles. This is not a reference to Peer-IGN, but peer (noun) one who is of equal standing with another.
  • For games, comics, movies, TV shows, etc.: The product itself. Describe the event, encounter, or dialogue. Dialogue and text from the product may be used verbatim, preferably in italics; if not, then in quotation marks and cited.
  • Screenshots or photo media of the topic described or discussed.

EditUnacceptable Sources for Citation

  • Any wiki (including IGN wikis).
  • URLs that result in 404
  • Questionable sources (requires editorial discretion)
  • "You" (as in you, the contributor). Unless you are able to back up your claim with first-hand demonstrable evidence by allowing others to repeat your process or experiment (generally referring to videogames), use of "I" (or first-person) in a wiki page is insufficient to serve as a credible source.
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