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1. chongl+(OP)[view] [source] 2019-01-11 13:58:15
So does this mean I could write a Wikipedia article about my grandmother if I can dig up articles on her from two different newspapers?
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2. laken+z[view] [source] 2019-01-11 14:05:36
>>chongl+(OP)
Provided those two different newspapers wrote on her life in detail, not just a mention, yes. See the following section of the notability guidelines:

"Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content. Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material.

3. common+M[view] [source] 2019-01-11 14:07:27
>>chongl+(OP)
Yes.

Since she is your family member, you're asked to disclose that you have a conflict of interest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest

But the answer is yes.

4. r0m4n0+ig[view] [source] 2019-01-11 16:30:05
>>chongl+(OP)
Interesting... and along the same lines as the parent comment, if two independent blogs had written about the file format in detail, I wonder if that’s enough.
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5. common+hp[view] [source] [discussion] 2019-01-11 17:36:07
>>r0m4n0+ig
Most tech blogs have just one author, and their posts don't go through a high-quality editorial process. Wikipedia calls these blogs "self-published sources", and they usually aren't considered reliable sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-p...

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