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The official text of a law is credible for what the law says; a legal analysis may be more useful for explaining contested interpretation.
8 Credible Source Examples
Use these examples to study structure, specificity, tone, and variation. They are demonstrations—not claims about a real person or organization unless the example itself makes that explicit.
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What to notice in the examples
Credibility is not a permanent badge attached to a domain or format; a source is credible for a claim when the source has relevant expertise or provenance, transparent support, appropriate methods, and enough context to justify that specific claim.
- Relevant authority or firsthand provenance.
- Transparent evidence, citations, data, or methods.
- A publication process appropriate to the claim.
- Current information when the topic changes quickly.
- Clear separation between evidence, opinion, advertising, and inference.
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A national statistics agency is credible for the figures it officially publishes when the dataset and definitions match the question.
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A medical guideline from a recognized professional body may be credible for current clinical recommendations when it is up to date and evidence graded.
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A manufacturer manual is credible for the product’s documented specifications but not necessarily for comparative marketing claims.
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A university archive scan is credible for the contents of the preserved document, although historians may disagree about its significance.
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A peer-reviewed experiment can be credible evidence for its tested conditions without proving the result applies to every population.
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A named expert interview can be credible for the expert’s interpretation but should not replace primary data when exact numbers matter.
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A transparent nonprofit report can be credible when its methods and data are inspectable even if the organization openly advocates a position.
Keep the underlying decision or pattern, then replace the subject, evidence, relationship, constraints, and tone with details that belong to your situation. If your final line still works after swapping only one noun, it may be too close to the example.