Talk:Voluntary childlessness/Source analysis

Note: "ID" is the reference's numeric reference ID, as appearing in the reference table as of this revision: [1]

ID	Publication	Publisher	Title	Date	URL	Claim(s) supported	Reliability	Independence	Support for claim	Opinion?	Comments
1	Social Choice and Welfare	Springer	"Childlessness, Childfreeness and Compensation"	30 November 2021	[2]	"Childfreeness" as alternate name	No immediate knowledge of this journal's reliability.	Yes	Title seems to indicate "yes", but need to get access to the full text (paywalled).	Likely not, but see previous.	May be unnecessary; the next sentence has a source confirming use of the "childfree" term, and this probably doesn't need two sources in any case.
2a	Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research	Stockholm University Press	"Childfreeness, parenthood and adulthood"	3 January 2013	[3]	"Childfreeness" as alternate name	Material published by a reputable university press is generally considered reliable.	Yes	States in footnote that childfreeness has been "promoted" as an alternate term, but doesn't discuss commonality in actual use.	No	Probably sufficient for inclusion of the term as an alternate; likely renders 1 unnecessary since 1 doesn't confirm anything else in the article.
2b	Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research	Stockholm University Press	"Childfreeness, parenthood and adulthood"	3 January 2013	[4]	"Some people carry genetic disorders"	Material published by a reputable university press is generally considered reliable.	Yes	Does note that some people have genetic disorders; that's a near WP:BLUESKY claim anyway.	No	Why are there four midsentence references for such an obviously true statement as "Some people carry genetic disorders"?
3	Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary	Merriam-Webster	"Definition of CHILD-FREE"	Undated	[5]	"The word childfree first appeared sometime before 1901"	Merriam-Webster would generally be reliable for material on language and its use.	Yes	Source states that the first known use was in 1901, not before it. We can't extrapolate use "before" from that.	No	Edited to correct mismatch between source and article text.[6]
4	BBC News (listed as "BBC Future"?)	BBC	"The adults celebrating child-free lives"	14 February 2023	[7]	"Use of the word "childfree" was first recorded in 1901[3] and entered common usage among feminists during the 1970s."	BBC is a generally reliable source.	Yes	Yes	No	One source is probably sufficient for this claim. Nothing in the source article indicates it's called "BBC Future".
5	Psychology Today (blog)	Psychology Today	"Childfree Trend on the Rise: Four Reasons Why!"	19 January 2014	[8]	"Use of the word "childfree" was first recorded in 1901[3] and entered common usage among feminists during the 1970s."	No, blogs are generally unreliable.	Yes	No, does not even mention the 1970s.	Yes	Removed.[9] There's already a much more reliable source for this claim (which actually confirms it), so there's no need for a blog post which doesn't even talk about it in addition to that. Possibly added as WP:REFSPAM.