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Is Beebom reliable or not? Supergrey1 (talk) 14:22, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @Supergrey1 (I know its been a while since this was posted and to no response until now) Since Beebom also covers things outside the video game sphere, it may be better to ask this at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard instead. JuniperChill (talk) 14:49, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your suggestion. Still, I'm rather unfamiliar with WP:RS/N on English Wikipedia, so I may just have to trouble others to submit it. Supergrey1 (talk) 14:46, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beebom 

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Is Video Chums a reliable source? The creator of the site, A.J. Maciejewski, is listed as a source in several articles. The.Kotora (talk) 06:05, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Video Chums 

message: Find video game sources: "80 Level" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images · free news sources · TWL · NYT · WP reference · VG/RS · VG/RL · WPVG/TalkLinkSearchLinkToThere is seemingly no prior discussion on this source. Is it reliable? — 🌙Eclipse (talk) (contribs) 19:37, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
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Former Waypoint/Vice Games folks (Patrick Klepek, Rob Zacny, Ricardo Contreras) started up Remap Radio about a year ago and they've started publishing reported work in recent months. Waypoint is already on our RS list. Some of their reported work includes stuff from Duncan Fyfe (known reliable reporter) and freelance work from Reid McCarter (AV Club, Bullet Points Monthly), Austin Walker (Giant Bomb), and Cameron Kunzelman (Paste, Polygon, etc.). I think this one is an easy pass. Axem Titanium (talk) 17:53, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I support it, with writers of their credentials. I'm seeing that they write articles, but is the "radio" part suggesting a particular focus on podcasting/sound based content? Sergecross73 msg me 18:16, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: They launched as a podcast only but added articles in the past few months as they found their footing. Axem Titanium (talk) 22:30, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remap Radio has articles now 

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This source seems quite reliable to me. Their reviews are proper, and look neat. JuniperChill (talk) 20:50, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you say a little more? I don't know of these people and it appears to be a very polished college project. That's not an automatic disqualification but I'd need to know more about why they're reliable. Axem Titanium (talk) 22:39, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not saying that this website is reliable (since its not anywhere in VG/S). I am saying it looks like one because this review from Octopath Traveler II just yesterday is a long one, and if you look at that website, it goes pretty in depth. I am also asking because I cannot find this anywhere in VG/S or its archive. JuniperChill (talk) 09:40, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks neat and "reviews are in-depth" are not really hallmarks of WP:RS. Axem, and other participants, are looking for the nominator of a site to present what they believe makes a site reliable or unreliable. We do have a staff page which is in far better shape than many sites posted here, but not a lot of credentials or experience for anyone outside this site. Their "Write for Us" page though is asking for volunteers for "blog contributors". It doesn't seem like they just take open user submissions though. No editorial policy is evident. I'm not seeing any evidence that other reliable sources are quoting them. All in all, feels like a well done but still young group blog. -- ferret (talk) 14:08, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  The site's reviews are used by OpenCritic, if that helps. Not very many previous jobs are listed for the writers, but most of them at least list a college education. I think it is unrealistic to require a source to hire former writers for reliable sources to become one, since not many of those writers are going to want to leave a good job like that. QuicoleJR (talk) 16:39, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It does not. OpenCritic and MetaCritic have many sources we consider unreliable. -- ferret (talk) 16:46, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Still, some of their employees, including the founder, do have some experience. I think it seems reliable enough, although I understand that that opinion may not be universal. QuicoleJR (talk) 19:17, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

text: Also, the founder apparently writes for RPGFan, and Alyssa Payne has experience at The Escapist and TheGamer, so that helps. QuicoleJR (talk) 16:41, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Punished Backlog 

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Stumbled across this cited on Desmond Miles. The site is defunct, but while the article in question was decently written (), looking at the Staff page (which was apparently under construction for awhile) and the About Us page doesn't given the highest confidence as it leaves me to worry it's more just a project between friends. Checking the EiC's background too turned up nothing I could fine other than some mentions of other writing and the usual "professional gamer" stuff.
Hoping I'm missing something here. Kung Fu Man (talk) 14:11, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
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I'm currently looking for sources to verify statements in the Geometry Dash article and came across this website. One of the editors wrote a book that seems to have been published by a reputable company. The other editor worked at Wired, so I really would not see why this source is unreliable at all. — 🌙Eclipse (talk) (contribs) 14:53, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Leander Kahney is a reputable journalist and The Cult of Mac is a decent source, but I'm not really sure that applies to the web site, which comes off to me as a discount-Apple Insider or Macrumors (sources which I try and avoid where possible on Apple tech articles here.) Couldn't find an editorial policy anywhere, as well. Is there any examples you have of more clearly-reliable sources referencing its coverage? Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 15:41, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: There's mentions of the website on al-Jazzera, Engadget, and Wired. — 🌙Eclipse (talk) (contribs) 16:12, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: (courtesy pinging @David Fuchs) — 🌙Eclipse (talk) (contribs) 16:16, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the above mostly speak to Kahney's reliability, rather than the Cult of Mac site itself. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 14:56, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
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