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by _v7gu 1989 days ago
I could count two non US/UK green sources. If that's the outlook they have, Wikipedia should have no business documenting anything outside the Anglosphere.
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I count eight of them. I'm not sure which six you ignored, but there's three of them before you live the 'A's.

The bias you're seeing towards the lack of non-Anglosphere sources in the list is likely the bias against non-English sources--whether good or bad. There's not a lot of French newspapers in that list, for example.

This list is essentially culled from discussions of "is this source reliable or not?" on the English-language discussions in Wikipedia. Non-English-language sources simply aren't going to appear in those discussions with any frequency, because most editors editing English-language articles aren't going to be using non-English-language sources.

> There's not a lot of French newspapers in that list, for example.

Which isn't that surprising considering that English sources are preferred for the English-language Wikipedia.

Usually, if there's something important in a French newspaper then English-language ones will report it as well, through their local correspondents.