Forum:CT Archive/Expired social media citations

Exiledjedi has brought up the issue of some articles on this site sourcing info to expired social media citations with no screenshots, and no other stuff stating said info. This includes some quality articles on the site as well. The issue should be subject to further discussion, and here I am doing just that. It is my opinion that, though unfortunately this potentially leaves the possibility for people to have made stuff up, expired social media citations should be considered valid sourcing even without accompanying screenshots. That said, if someone were to add info to an article and claim it comes from a no-longer existent social media post, that would not be accepted, with too much room for making something up. But for info cited to social media at the time the links were active, and simply were added either before the proper templates existed or just because having screenshots wasn't set in stone then, I feel like it's unfortunate that the screenshots don't exist, but seeing that the lack of a photo was worked into the template, I feel like that would have to count as complete, with the assumed integrity of the user who cited info to said link. The status of several quality articles on this site will be potentially affected by this thread. Hanzo Hasashi (talk) 03:26, December 14, 2015 (UTC)

Support (consider expired social media citations valid)

 * 1) Hanzo Hasashi (talk) 03:26, December 14, 2015 (UTC)