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21:18, 28 January 2011 Courcelles (talk | contribs) deleted page Talk:Canada Free Press (Speedy deleted per CSD G8, talk page of a deleted or non-existent page. using TW)

@Courcelles: I didn't initially know this was deleted since @Awewe: made it as a redirect to its operator Judi McLeod. I checked the log and it said:

Expired PROD, concern was: no reliable sources, not notable

Since the issue is no 'reliable' sources, would it be possible for you to access which non-reliable sources were included so people looking for some know what to aim higher than?

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Produces results but I need to know which to consider notable enough. Ranze (talk) 06:44, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is you've made a mess, having a talk page for another article appear to be the talk page of Judi McLeod. Maybe you should be asking User:Courcelles. Doug Weller talk 09:10, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

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The above may also be appropriate due to http://www.torontofreepress.com/about-us.htm showing it is a subsidiary of CFP. Not sure about http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/

Given the difficulty of finding sources I'm going to post them here for consideration as I come across them, so we can get a bigger picture of the coverage and whether these external sources create adequate notability for the site to have an article instead of the redirect to its editor.

"Canada Free Press article lambasts arbitration". China Central Television. 27 May 2016. The online newspaper Canada Free Press has called the South China Sea arbitration filed by the Philippines over territorial disputes with China, a 'case study of an out-of-control transnational adjudicative body'.

Media Matters for America has an entire section dedicated to the site's publications at https://mediamatters.org/shows-and-publications/canada-free-press and any number of articles could be cited from there.

Lightman, Elmer (23 April 2014). Everything you need to know about Rush Limbaugh. p. 139. Then on Thursday July 21 he read a column in The Canada Free Press by a Klaus Rohrich. Limbaugh's reading of the column as printed on his website

"Miss America's Pricey Four Day Coronation". 18 December 2006. Again, this is John Lillpop of Canada Free Press.

"Canada Free Press Asks ACSH For Science Perspective On Bees". American Council on Science and Health. 31 January 2014. Now it is neonicotinoids and bees and Canada Free Press wants to know what the science is behind the hype – we were happy to help. (links to http://canadafreepress.com/article/another-environmental-lie-exposed-bees-are-thriving?source=acsh.org at end)

Mikkelson, David (21 July 2016). "First Lady Michelle Obama Requires More Than Twenty Attendants". Snopes.com. Lynn Sweet's list was posted to the Last Crusade web site (and the Canada Free Press web site) with the introductory paragraphs (reproduced above) claiming that First Lady Michelle Obama had hired "an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim,"

RedState. 24 April 2010 http://www.redstate.com/diary/hertfordkc/2010/04/24/is-the-canada-free-press-legitimate/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Littlemore, Richard (21 January 2011). "CanadaFreePress Apologizes to Dr. Andrew Weaver". DeSmogBlog. The website Canada Free Press has issued a retraction and apology (full text below) to University of Victoria climate modeller Dr. Andrew Weaver for the content of an article written by Dr. Tim Ball.

Rudolf, John Collins (8 February 2011). "Climate Scientist Sues Skeptic for Libel". New York Times. Retrieved 28 January 2014. article has been removed from the Canada Free Press site, which published a long retraction and apology

Reich, Eugenie Samuel (9 February 2011). "Climate skeptic makes free speech appeal". Nature News Blog. Retrieved 28 January 2014. Canada Free Press, a politically conservative online news site

Brainard, Curtis (25 July 2012). "I Don't Bluff". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 21 February 2014. an allegedly libelous article published by the Canada Free. (appears to abbreviate by dropping "Press")

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/news/DDY8kbWKDCo brings up a good question too: "Why does Google consider the conspiracy theory-oriented site "Canada Free Press" a source of news?" If Google considers something a reputable news site then why does Wikipedia ignore this?

If you search CFP on Limbaugh's site for example it is referred to many times. Given how notable Rush Limbaugh is, if we can find other famous people doing the same thing, and perhaps media reporting on that, it does establish some notability for the website, even if we're not at the point of consensus over it being reliable for supporting things. Ranze (talk) 07:17, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]