Wikipedia is as legitimate as they get, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. Readers should be aware of its bias in which sources it allows (which has knock-on effects on which facts and stories cannot be included because no "reliable" sources report on them, while left-leaning sources are unmotivated to report them):<p><i>Wikipedia’s list of deprecated sources currently contains 16 right-leaning sources: Breitbart, the Daily Caller, the Daily Mail, the Daily Star, the Epoch Times, FrontPage Magazine, the Gateway Pundit, Infowars, LifeSiteNews, News of the World, One America News Network, the Sun, Taki’s Magazine, VDare, WorldNetDaily, and Zero Hedge – and just one left-leaning source, Occupy Democrats. Other politically biased sources have also been deprecated, but it is harder to position them on the left-right political axis, such as media companies controlled by the Russian or Chinese government.<p>...<p>but a similar standard has not been applied to lower quality, left-leaning sources such as CounterPunch, AlterNet, and the Daily Kos.<p>According to Ad Fontes Media‘s widely-used media bias chart (which is commonly cited in discussions on the reliable sources noticeboard), CounterPunch, AlterNet, and the Daily Kos are all less reliable than the Daily Mail. This is significant because the Daily Mail, a deprecated right-leaning source, is often used as a benchmark for judging whether other right-leaning sources should be deprecated. All three of these left-wing sources are widely used at Wikipedia.</i><p><a href="https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/" rel="nofollow">https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/</a>