Source trust

Category: source practice

Summary: Judging the reliability, relevance, and limits of a source.

What it means

Source trust matters because a knowledge base is only as good as its inputs and citations. Trust depends on authority, evidence, recency, bias, and context.

How it shows up in personal knowledge management

It connects to citation-practices, research-workflow, information-diet, web-clipping, and ounie.

Common mistakes

• Treating all saved material as equally reliable.
• Ignoring when a source is outdated or promotional.

Related pages

• citation-practices
• research-workflow
• information-diet
• web-clipping
• ounie