News of the World

News of the World
Type	website
Shortcut	WP:NEWSOFTHEWORLD
Status	d
Deprecated	no
Blacklisted	no
Recency	2021
Domain newsoftheworld.co.uk
	In source code; External links in articles; Spamcheck tool
RfC
Link	Rfc
Date	2019

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This source in a nutshell: News of the World is considered

deprecated. See § Summary.

News of the World is a source that has been repeatedly discussed at the Reliable sources noticeboard. This page collects and links information about previous discussions and current consensus, and summarizes it here for convenience.

Summary

News of the World was deprecated in the 2019 RfC. There is consensus that News of the World is generally unreliable. As is the case with The Sun, News of the World should not be used as a reference in most cases aside from about-self usage, and should not be used to determine notability. Some editors consider News of the World usable for uncontroversial film reviews if attribution is provided. News of the World shut down in 2011; website content is no longer accessible unless archived.

Excerpt

The News of the World was a weekly national "red top" tabloid newspaper published every Sunday in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the world's highest-selling English-language newspaper, and at closure still had one of the highest English-language circulations. It was originally established as a broadsheet by John Browne Bell, who identified crime, sensation and vice as the themes that would sell most copies. The Bells sold to Henry Lascelles Carr in 1891; in 1969, it was bought from the Carrs by Rupert Murdoch's media firm News Limited. In 1984, as News Limited reorganised into News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation, the newspaper transformed into a tabloid and became the Sunday sister paper of The Sun.

Discussions

Links

RSN

WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 353#Removing News of the World as a deprecated source

Recency

2021

Rfcs

2019 Rfc

Notes

References

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Perennial sources
Source	Status (legend)	Discussions			Use
Source	Status (legend)	List	Last	Summary	Use
News of the World WP:NEWSOFTHEWORLDWP:NEWSOFTHEWORLD 📌		2019	2021	News of the World was deprecated in the 2019 RfC. There is consensus that News of the World is generally unreliable. As is the case with The Sun, News of the World should not be used as a reference in most cases aside from about-self usage, and should not be used to determine notability. Some editors consider News of the World usable for uncontroversial film reviews if attribution is provided. News of the World shut down in 2011; website content is no longer accessible unless archived.	1 2