Talk:Polari Prize

Use of social media sources for claims about living persons

Claims about living persons, such as their opinions on contentious topics, are not acceptable unless they are made by the subject and verified. Note that:

• Any claim in such a source by a third party is unacceptable, even if authenticated.
• Twitter's verification in respect of posts after Musk's takeover is not reliable enough to authenticate posters.
• Bluesky uses domain verification: if a username is a domain other than one ending in .bsky.social, it may be authenticated. All of the ones cited are .bsky.social usernames so they are not authenticated.
• I don't know how to authenticate Instagram posts, so I've removed them. Some might be reliable.

Hairy Dude (talk) 14:57, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

Verified accounts on Instagram have a blue badge with a white checkmark; see John Boyne's account (since he's the primary subject of recent edits) for example. Unlike X/Twitter, I believe Instagram verification is still considered reliable enough for Wikipedia purposes. Funcrunch (talk) 17:27, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. I've reviewed all the Instagram posts and it seems none of them are verified, though without being able to log in (I don't have an account) I couldn't see their profiles to be 100% sure. Additionally the Bad Betty Press post is a third party claim so unacceptable anyway, as is the purported screenshot on Bluesky in a comment. Hairy Dude (talk) 09:48, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

You should be able to see the main profile page (and the verification badge) without logging in; I logged out of my account on Instagram (as well as Facebook and Twitter) years ago. Funcrunch (talk) 14:56, 18 August 2025 (UTC)