Wikinews:Article wizard/Sources
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except really obvious things, like Paris is in France.
For a synthesis article, our most common and basic type of article,
find and read at least two independent sources before you write anything at all.
Sources must be
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Syndicated articles from a few wire news agencies, like Associated Press and Reuters, are purchased by news publishers all over the web, so a lot of articles out there are really copies of each other.
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written your own way, not plagiarizing the wording or structure of any source, and
written neutrally, for which you need to have seen more than one perspective.
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