User:CNMall41/References

Unreliable sources

Potential Unreliable Sources

• Dansr
• The American Bazaar 1
• CMSWire (current discussion

Sponsored and/or Branded Content

• Mint
• ABPLive
• Forbes India branded content
• Mid-Day (brand media)
• Outlook India business spotlight
• Events FAQs (Eventfaqs Bureau)
• Best Media Info (partner content, also no bylines on others or editorial oversight listed)
• LA Weekly, reliable source, but look for "written in partnership" bylines as these are sponsored posts.
• Financial Express, bylines such as "BrandWagon."
• Business World, bylines such as "BW Online Bureau" indicate press release churnalism or possible sponsored content.
• NDTV/Entertainment
• Hindustan Times (brand-post)
• NL.MASHABLE

Possible Content Farms

• Vents ([1], [2], [3])
• Borok Times (see COIN and SPI cases) (Attempts to show for blacklist 1, 2, 3)
• The National (Nigeria)
• Sun News Online
• Independent (Nigeria) Report filed here for blacklisting on July 17, 2024. Socks using it to create articles in mainspace.

Otherwise unreliable

• East Mojo, East Mojo Wikipedia page deleted per G5 and found by at least two others at RSN to be crowdsourced, advertorial, and falling under WP:NEWSORGINDIA. Added here by SOCK. And here by same SOCK.
• Ottarasan, fan blog launched in October 2021.
• Boxx Office Adda film-spam, blog launched in August 2023.
• Ottboag, domain created in late 2023
• Bollywood Yatraa, domain created in 2024 (attempted cite in AfD as keep vote here

Paid/Spam

• Moviesinsighthindi Domain created in December 2023. additions
• Ftootifooti Domain age less than a year, obvious spam ([4],[5], [6]) Finally reported to blacklist after this from June 2024.
• Biography People
• Websinganmp3 (this and Naasongs added by this user on March 14)
• Vindhyabhaskar, (added and re-added by same user)
• Naasongs
• 1
• 2
• 3
• Bengal Planet, domain age is less than 4 years. No editorial page and uses a gmail address as contact info.
• The Kolkata Mail no editorial oversight, has a Wordpress icon instead of logo.
• Northeast Now
• Hanumanchalisa, added initially by ip here
• Referral code (1)
• Coach Base, originally added by User:Coachbase35f (3 times and reported to ANN).
• Fresh Update

Other

• Ones to watch
  • Notes - Sponsored article. Help us to remove Sponsored articles from here. See WP:SPONSORED.
  • Notes - Note Reliable - See WP:NEWSORGINDIA - Help to remove these and other sponsored articles from the list here. Also, see WP:SPONSORED.
• WP:ICTFSOURCES (Indian film sources)
• WP:ALBUM/SOURCE (Music sources)
• Wikipedia:Noticeboard for India-related topics (New pages and drafts)
• fake sources
• NEWSORGINDIA RfC use India only or subcontinent - AfD here

Look at sourcing

• University of Texas at Austin
• John Birch Society
• Kevin Sorbo
• List of political disinformation website campaigns in the United States
• 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas

• Dallas Express (needs mass removal as 100% unreliable source and blog)
• Texas Observer
• The Texas Observer - needs clean up and history expansion. Reliability of source could vary depending on date as with Newsweek? Or, maybe completely reliable or not at all.