Talk:Balloon boy hoax/FAQ

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Q1: Why can't the Internet Historian video be used as a source?

A1: Per Wikipedia's guidelines, self-published YouTube videos are not a reliable source. We understand and respect the motivation for coming here to right a great wrong. This is not the place to soapbox what you think is truth. Please understand we can only report material which is verifiable from reliable and secondary sources. Since the first discussion about the video, this has been established on here several times.