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Unlike WikiProject India, WikiProject Japan, and WikiProject Korea, WikiProject Taiwan currently does not have a dedicated list of perennial reliable sources. However, this does not imply that all sources from Taiwan are unreliable. Chinese-language sources are citable on English Wikipedia per WP:NONENG. The Chinese Wikipedia maintains its own list of perennial sources (zh:維基百科:可靠來源/常見有爭議來源列表), which is compiled, updated, and carefully assessed by editors to reflect community consensus.
While editing articles with Chinese-language sources, editors unfamiliar with journalism in the Sinophone region often express doubts about some of them. I often direct them to the Chinese Wikipedia's sources list, but language barriers can pose challenges. This prompted me to categorize and provide translations for a complete list of Taiwanese sources.
Explanatory notes
[edit]- Unlike English Wikipedia, sources on Chinese Wikipedia are classified into five tiers:
Generally reliable, 
Semi-reliable, 
No consensus, 
Generally unreliable, and 
Deprecated. Semi-reliable sources are marked with a grey tick in the lists below. They refer to sources that editors consider generally reliable and usable in most situations, but they meet one of the following four criteria:
- The source lacks a complete editorial team or has not strictly enforced its editorial policies.
- The source has been discredited in fact-checking.
- The source publishes paid product placements or contributions from personal media without proper attribution to distinguish them from other content.
- The source is involved in predatory publishing.
- The source assessment summary in the List of sources assessed on Chinese Wikipedia below is a direct translation of the Chinese Wikipedia's list of perennial sources, formed by consensus among Chinese Wikipedia editors. It does not reflect my personal opinions on any of the listed sources (although I initiated or participated in several RSN discussions on Chinese Wikipedia).
- The source assessments listed in the List of sources assessed on Chinese Wikipedia, reflect the community consensus of Chinese Wikipedia and are for reference only. They do not necessarily apply to English Wikipedia. Nonetheless, they serve as a valuable reference, as some smaller-scale or defunct media may never undergo thorough RfCs here on English Wikipedia. Editors on Chinese Wikipedia also generally have better access to both the Chinese language and certain offline publications (like printed newspapers), allowing for more informed conclusions about these sources.
List of sources assessed on Chinese Wikipedia
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| Box Office Taiwan | 
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1 | 2025 | Box Office Taiwan is a data website operated by the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute that tracks box office revenue in Taiwan. | Since the website's data are supplied by the Ministry of Culture, the community generally regards it as a reliable source. | 1  
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| Central News Agency |
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1 · 2 · 3 | 2025 | Central News Agency is Taiwan's state-owned news agency, founded in 1924. | Since 1 July 1996, the Central News Agency was reorganized from a party-run media outlet of the Kuomintang into the national news agency of the Republic of China. Since then, its operations have been conducted in accordance with independent editorial policies. Although the community has noted that the Central News Agency's reporting shows some degree of bias toward the ruling party, editors generally agreed that this pro-government political inclination has not affected the enforcement of its journalistic standards. Its reputation for fact-checking has also never been heavily contested. Therefore, the community considers the post-1 July 1996 Central News Agency to be a generally reliable source, but advises caution regarding potential pro-government bias when using its content. | 1
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| Chinese Television System / CTS News |
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1 | 2023 | Chinese Television System is a terrestrial television station founded in 1971. | China Television System is affiliated with the Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation, but its news gathering and operations are independent from the group's other public television stations and outlets. The community considers the news reports of the Chinese Television System as generally reliable. | 1
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| EBC News / ETtoday | 
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1 | 2024 | EBC News is a news channel founded and operated by Eastern Television in 1990, while ETtoday is a news website established by Eastern Television in 2000. | Both EBC News and ETtoday have undergone several controversies throughout their histories, raising doubts about the reliability of some of their news reports. Editors should exercise their own judgment when citing these sources, considering their origins and neutrality. For reports that have been refuted or proven incorrect by involved parties, editors should make appropriate corrections or remove the content. | 1 2
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| FTV News |
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1 | 2025 | FTV News is a news channel founded and operated by Formosa Television in 1997. | Like most Taiwanese media, FTV News struggles with fact-checking, political bias, and sensationalism, but its reliability is considered better than that of many other Taiwanese outlets. Therefore, the community had reached a consensus that it should be classified as semi-reliable. | 1
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| Gamer.com.tw |
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1 | 2022 | Gamer.com.tw is a forum and news platform established in 1996, covering news about anime and video games. | Articles in the "GNN News" (GNN新聞) column, produced by an editorial team, are considered generally reliable. However, user-generated content on the site, particularly in its forums, is generally unreliable. | 1 2
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| Liberty Times |
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1 | 2022 | Liberty Times is a daily newspaper founded by politician Lin Rong-San in 1980. | The community regarded its political content, especially concerning cross-strait relations, as semi-reliable, while articles about Liberty Times itself or its shareholders and investors are generally unreliable. Aside from these topics, all other content is considered generally reliable. It is worth noting that its opinion pieces should be treated as self-published sources. | 1
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| Merit Times（Non-Buddhism topics) |
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1 · 2 | 2025 | Merit Times is a daily newspaper established by the Taiwan-based Chinese Buddhist monk Hsing Yun in 2000. | Content on religious topics other than Buddhism, as well as all other topics, is considered generally reliable. | 1
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| Merit Times（Buddhism topics） |
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1 · 2 | 2025 | Since the founder of Merit Times has direct ties to the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist monastic order, articles related to Buddhism, especially those concerning Fo Guang Shan, may present potential conflicts of interest. These articles are considered a form of preaching or advertising and should be regarded as semi-reliable. | 1
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| Mirror Media (Political topics) |
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1 · 2 · 3 · 4 | 2025 | Mirror Media is a weekly magazine founded by former Next Magazine chairman Pei Wei in 2016, which later evolved into a multimedia company of the same name, owning several subsidiary media outlets, most notably Mirror TV, Mirror News, and Mirror Fiction. | The community has sharply divided views on the reliability of Mirror Media. Some editors argue that its performance in the Core Pacific City case indicates it cannot produce widely recognized social or political reports, while others point to its multiple wins of the Excellent Journalism Award and its acclaimed current affairs program MNews Talk, as evidence of the media's commitment to editorial responsibilities and journalistic ethics. Ultimately, the community reached a consensus, concluding that its political-related news is semi-reliable. | 1 2 3
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| Mirror Media (Non-political topics) |
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1 · 2 · 3 · 4 | 2025 | The community has sharply divided views on the reliability of Mirror Media. Some editors argue that its performance in the Core Pacific City case indicates it cannot produce widely recognized social or political reports, while others point to its multiple wins of the Excellent Journalism Award and its acclaimed current affairs program MNews Talk, as evidence of the media's commitment to editorial responsibilities and journalistic ethics. Ultimately, the community reached a consensus, concluding that its non-political-related news is generally reliable. | 1 2 3
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| Next Magazine |
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1 | 2016 | Next Magazine is a weekly magazine founded by businessman Jimmy Lai in 1990 and operated as a subsidiary of Next Digital. | The community found it to be a tabloid, but some editors did not consider its content to be generally unreliable. | 1
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| Newtalk |
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1 | 2025 | Newtalk is an online media outlet founded by journalists from the defunct Taiwan Daily in 2009. | The community unanimously found it to be a generally reliable source. It is worth noting that Newtalk also features reader submissions, which should be regarded as op-eds and used only as sources of opinion with proper attribution. The comments section and forum on Newtalk's website should be considered user-generated content and should not be cited as official Newtalk content. | 1
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| Nownews |
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1 | 2020 | Nownews is a news website originally founded and operated by Eastern Television in 2008 but sold to Gamania in 2019. | The community found it to be a reliable source, although discussions about it were not very thorough. | 1
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| PeoPo | 
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1 | 2016 | PeoPo is a news platform established by the Public Television Service Foundation in 2007. | Operated through citizen journalism, its reporters lack professional training and articles are not actively overseen by its staff, only removed when reported. The community unanimously considered it an unreliable source. | 1
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| Radio Taiwan International |
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1 | 2023 | Radio Taiwan International is Taiwan's national broadcaster, founded in 1928 and currently operated by Taiwan's Ministry of Culture. | The community unanimously found it to be generally reliable. However, unlike the Public Television Service, where editorial independence is protected by Public Television Act, content that conflicts with the Taiwanese government's interests should ideally be supported by other sources. | 1
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| The Reporter |
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1 · 2 | 2025 | The Reporter is a non-profit online media outlet established by former China Times and CommonWealth Magazine chief editor Jungshin Ho in 2015, primarily publishing feature stories of public interest. | The community unanimously found it to be a generally reliable source. | 1
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| SET News |
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1 · 2 | 2023 | SET News is a news channel founded and operated by Sanlih E-Television in 1998. | The community had formed a consensus that:
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| Taipei Box Office Records | 
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1 | 2021 | Taipei Box Office Records is a Facebook fan page that updates weekly box office records in Taiwan. | While the page is managed by professional film critics, the community had divided opinions on its reliability. | 1
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| TaiwanPlus |
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1 | 2023 | TaiwanPlus is a public media outlet established by Taiwan's Ministry of Culture and operated by the Central News Agency in 2021. | The community found its international news coverage to be neutral and sounding, thus it should be regarded as generally reliable, though there is no clear consensus on its domestic news coverage. | 1
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| The News Lens |
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1 | 2025 | The News Lens is a Taipei-based multilingual online newspaper founded in 2013, with articles available in Chinese, English, and Japanese. | Commentaries make up a significant portion of the content on The News Lens. Articles attributed to the TNL Editorial Team or contracted reporters of The News Lens are generally regarded as reliable sources. If the content lacks the aforementioned designation, they are reprints from other media outlets, editorials or opinion pieces. Editors should assess whether the authors of these articles are sufficiently well-known and unbiased and provide proper attribution when citing them. | 1 2
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| TVBS News |
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1 | 2022 | TVBS News is a paid news channel founded and operated by TVBS in 1995. | The community had reached a consensus that its content is semi-reliable, but for promotional material, editors should either use it to support factual information or replace it with a more credible source. | 1
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| United Daily News |
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1 · 2 | 2019 | United Daily News is a daily newspaper founded by Wang Tiwu through the merger of three local newspapers. | The community generally agreed that at least some of its articles are reliable, but there was no consensus on its overall reliability, and discussions lacked depth. | 1 2
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| Media outlets of Want Want China (Political topics) |
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1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 | 2025 | Chung T'ien Television, China Television, China Times, Commercial Times, Want Weekly, and CTi News are operated by the corporation Want Want China established in 2009 after Want Want's acquisition of China Times, China Television, and Chung T'ien Television. | Political reports published by Want Want China's subsidiaries often contain radical, false, and defamatory content. (In 2021, the court ruled that China Times had violated reputations in some of its articles.[1]) The upper management of these corporations has been known to interfere with reporting to prioritize Want Want's commercial and political interests. The community has concluded that political content from Want Want China-operated outlets is generally unreliable. | |
| Media outlets of Want Want China (Non-political topics) |
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1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 | 2025 | The quality of non-political content from Want Want China subsidiaries is considered better than their political content, but it still exhibits fact-checking issues. Thus, the community had reached a consensus that non-political content from these outlets is semi-reliable. | ||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 蕭博文 (5 October 2021). "中國時報指黃國昌岳父中國蓋廠遭判道歉 提再審高院駁回". Central News Agency (in Chinese). Retrieved 9 May 2025.
Last update: 07:16, 13 August 2025 (UTC)