National Enquirer

National Enquirer

(not part of original row)
source type	foobar (not part of original row)
publisher	Fooland (state-funded media) (not part of original row)
classification	Deprecated: There is community consensus to deprecate the source.

The National Enquirer is a supermarket tabloid that is considered generally unreliable. In the 2019 RfC, there was weak consensus to deprecate the National Enquirer as a source, but no consensus to create an edit filter to warn editors against using the publication.

Prior discussions

Please add links to other significant discussions. When in doubt, read and rely on the discussions themselves, rather than the simple summary.

• WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 35#National Enquirer
• WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 85#Tabloid Newspapers
• WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 114#Contactmusic.com on marital breakup
• WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 204#Daily Mail again
• WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 218#New York Daily News unreliable?
• WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 232#List of banned UK newspapers?

• Simple summary of prior discussions: TBD

Notes

References

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Perennial sources

Source	Status (legend)	Discussions			Use
		List	Last	Summary
National Enquirer		2019	2019	The National Enquirer is a supermarket tabloid that is considered generally unreliable. In the 2019 RfC, there was weak consensus to deprecate the National Enquirer as a source, but no consensus to create an edit filter to warn editors against using the publication.	1