I don't find the batch containing edits like this particularly helpful. All it indicates is that the newspaper was included in the database used by the project. Whereas I'd expect described by source (P1343) to statements to refer to a source that actually describes the item in some amount of detail. Could you please revert the batch until there is consensus for it?
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The goal is to indicate credibility of news-sites in Wikidata. Inclusion in a vetted database of legitimate newspapers, like the News Desert project, is a credibility indicator. I consulted several active Wikidata editors who focus on news media and credibility. Since there's no property of inclusion in a database, they thought P1343 was the closest. If you know of a better prop for this purpose, please tell me.
What is your evidence that the database was meaningfully vetted?
A team at UNC's Hussman School of Journalism has been researching and refining the database for a couple decades:
That doesn't provide any information about how they compiled the database. And it seems that, to the extent there's a UNC database of newspapers, it'd be much better to include a statement providing the identifier of the entry in the database than one referencing a specific use case of the database, which includes no information other than the newspaper's name and county.
I am reverting the batch for now, without prejudice against restoring some reference to this project if consensus to do so in an appropriate form is reached.
@Sdkb, If time permits, please post your objections in the Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2024/01#h-Property indicating inclusion in external database. That's where the described by source property was suggested for this use. To reach consensus, it'd be helpful if your thoughts were in a public forum. I have statements ready-to-add noting news-media in several other vetted media databases. But I need to know the proper property.
That discussion has been archived, so it'd be better to start a new one.
These are all aliases for described by source: "entry", "mentioned in", "found in". All these alternate-labels are accurate descriptions of an entry in a database. Can you suggest a more appropriate property?