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All of the statements below happen to be true, but only some are adequately supported by a reliable source. Can you guess which ones?

Los Angeles Times

The voice actor Clarence Nash voiced the character Jiminy Cricket for a brief period of time.[1] Note: find a better example to use here.

  1. ^ Folkart, Bruce (February 21, 1985). "50-Year Career: Clarence Nash, Donald Duck's Voice, Dies". Los Angeles Times.
 Answer

Reliable. As a respected mainstream newspaper, news articles from the Los Angeles Times are considered generally reliable.

Journal of the American Medical Association

In 2016, the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated that $101 billion was spent in 2013 on the preventable disease of diabetes, and another $88 billion was spent on heart disease.[1]

  1. ^ Dieleman, Joseph L.; Baral, Ranju; Birger, Maxwell; Bui, Anthony L.; Bulchis, Anne; Chapin, Abigail; Hamavid, Hannah; Horst, Cody; Johnson, Elizabeth K. (2016-12-27). "US Spending on Personal Health Care and Public Health, 1996-2013". JAMA. 316 (24): 2627–2646. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.16885. ISSN 0098-7484. PMC 5551483. PMID 28027366.
 Answer

Reliable. JAMA is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association. It is considered generally reliable.

Reddit

Human eye color is determined by the composition of two parts of the iris. Both pigmentation and Tyndall scattering contribute to the ultimate coloration.[1]

  1. ^ sixsidepentagon. "ELI5: Why are human eye colours restricted to brown, blue, green, and in extremely rare cases, red, as opposed to other colours?". Reddit.
 Answer

Not reliable. Reddit is user-generated content, which is generally considered unreliable. Even if the author asserts that they are an eye doctor, we cannot verify that claim.

Daily Mail

(not RS)

Forbes

(example of how contributors articles are not RS) Could also use CNN iReport here.

Claremont Courier

(local newspaper, but reliable)

Know Your Meme

(user-generated, so not RS). Could also use Urban Dictionary, Goodreads, or Ancestry.com to demonstrate this.

The Michigan Daily

(student newspaper, but reliable)

Der Spiegel

(reliable, doesn't matter that it's in German and that you may never have heard of it before)

The New York Times

But it's an opinion piece! So unreliable.

Note:We'll need to adapt this so it works for returning to both the Markup track and VE track. It's probably best to build the quiz here, then create two pages where it's transcluded, similar to what we do for several other referencing pages.

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