Talk:BlackHatWorld

Delete?

I doubt relevance as there is not much more than one HuffPost article. And the site itself carries adverts for buying articles on wikipedia. https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/wikipedia-page-creation-get-your-own-custom-authority-page-on-wikipedia.925936/ Should that remain? Kipala (talk) 16:32, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Note that the HuffPost article is a blog, written by a "contributor", not a staff member. For contributors', HuffPost says "Editorially, bar typos, house style or legal issues, we will not edit your argument or point." Looking at various discussions at WP:RSN's archive, there seems to be a firm consensus that "contributor" articles to Forbes or HuffPost aren't reliable sources, unless the writer is themselves a journalist, expert, or some otherwise independently notable person. There was an RFC about explicitly adding language to Wikipedia:Verifiability to note that these "contributor" blogs were not reliable sources, at least for BLPs or contentious claims. I don't have an opinion about whether we should have an article about BlackHatWorld, but right now none of the sources we currently present seem to me to meet the "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" requirement of WP:GNG. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 17:54, 31 March 2020 (UTC)