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This page contains short guides and advice for reviewing various types of articles as part of new pages patrol. Where the main instructions page focuses on a mechanical view of how to process an article, this page summarizes key things to look out for on specific types of articles, as well as resources and likely outcomes.
General advice for evaluating sources
The new pages patrol source guide is a useful resource that compiles the results of source reliability discussions. It has a lower standard for inclusion than the perennial sources list, and thus its listings are only as strong as the consensuses of the discussions that they are cited to.
Sources not included in existing source guides can be brought to the reliable sources noticeboard for discussion. However, unless a source is being used for contentious claims, you should try your best to evaluate its reliability yourself.
The Wikipedia Library platform offers access to many useful libraries of sources. Newspapers.com, RocksBackPages and academic journals are excellent resources to apply for as a new page reviewer.
Subject-specific guides
Music
For most music-related subjects, any source with a fully professional editorial board and bylines on its articles can be considered reliable provided that it is not writing obviously promotional coverage. Note that many reliable sources will also run articles that promote an upcoming concert or that hype a recent release without providing much in the way of significant coverage. BLP content in music articles is subject to the usual level of caution surrounding biographies of living people. A valuable additional resource for music articles is the source guide maintained by Wikiproject Albums, and subscriptions to RocksBackPages are available through the Wikipedia Library platform. Music-related articles about subjects that are more than a decade old may also have coverage that can be found on Google Scholar.
Albums
The bread and butter of reliable coverage for albums are album reviews. When assessing notability, be careful to check that the reviews are not paid placements or self-published. The subject-specific notability guide for albums specifies that charting is a likely indicator of notability: in practice, unless there are several reasons to suspect that significant coverage does not exist of an album that has charted, an article about an album that has charted is extremely unlikely to be found not notable at AfD.
Albums that are not notable should be converted to redirects pointing to either the recording artist, or if applicable, a discography page for the recording artist. If the conversion to redirect is contested, AfD is an appropriate forum to resolve the matter.