Blog:Source Reliability-O-Meter

This page rates the reliability of many websites as sources. This is a reboot of this blog, because the creator is no longer active, the arrival of new websites/users, amd because I want this blog to be more feedback-based. Feel free to ask if a source is reliable in the comments.

English

 * 1) The 8-Bit Guy
 * 2) AngryJoeShow
 * 3) BigfryTV
 * 4) Caddicarus
 * 5) Cinemassacre
 * 6) The Completionist
 * 7) Computer Gaming World (outside of Scorpia)
 * 8) Darklordjadow1
 * 9) DX
 * 10) Edge Magazine
 * 11) Gamereactor
 * 12) Gaming Historian
 * 13) GmanLives
 * 14) Kim Justice
 * 15) r/KotakuInAction
 * 16) Lazy Game Reviews
 * 17) Metacritic
 * 18) Metro (GameCentral section only)
 * 19) Modern Vintage Gamer
 * 20) Nintendo Life
 * 21) NintendoWorldReport
 * 22) Nostalgia Nerd
 * 23) OpenCritic
 * 24) PCGamingWiki
 * 25) penguinz0/Cr1TiKaL
 * 26) ProJared
 * 27) Pure Xbox
 * 28) Push Square
 * 29) Rerez
 * 30) Tennings
 * 31) mh:awesomegames:Video Game Critic
 * 32) Wikipedia
 * 33) Worth A Buy

Foreign

 * 1) BartekGM
 * 2) CD-Action
 * 3) Jeuxvideo.com
 * 4) Kinamania
 * 5) LevelUp.com
 * 6) Joueur du Grenier
 * 7) NRGeek

English

 * 1) GameFAQs
 * 2) GameSpew
 * 3) GameXplain
 * 4) Jim Sterling (pre 2021)

Foreign

 * 1) GRYOnline.pl / Gamepressure.com

Questionable
These websites and users are questionable as sources for many reasons (like having a controversial past, biased reviews or errors). They may be admitted to a certain extent, depending on how the reception of a thing they did.

English

 * 1) Eurogamer
 * 2) Game Informer
 * 3) GamesRadar+ (Occasional clickbait and corruption of the Edge Magazine)'''
 * 4) Nathaniel Bandy (Most of his "TRIGGERED" videos are over-exaggerated)
 * 5) PC Gamer
 * 6) Scorpia (Was very harsh when reviewing games she disliked)
 * 7) Screen Rant / GameRant (occasional clickbait)
 * 8) WatchMojo (occasional personal bias and top videos are based on user's votes)

Foreign

 * 1) PPE.pl (frequent errors and many news are based on unconfirmed rumors)

Unreliable/Blacklisted
Note for admins: Add the websites listed here to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist.
 * 1) Any journalist that has written a Gamers Are Dead article
 * 2) Breitbart
 * 3) mh:rottenwebsites:BuzzFeed (excessive clickbait)
 * 4) mh:terribletvshows:Channel Awesome (their "reviews" are far too focused on gags, filler, and unfunny comedy)
 * 5) Charriii5's Everything Wrong With videos (full of nitpicks/unimportant questions, unrelated pop-culture references, pointing things out on the screen, hypocrisy (such as sinning games for making puns, yet making them himself), sinning characterization/unrealism, sinning things multiple times, not understanding the source material for licensed games, not understanding lore/how the games work, making sins that are obviously wrong/with very little evidence to back them up, not explaining sins/sinning without context)
 * 6) mh:rottenwebsites:Common Sense Media (written from parents' perspectives, many reviews are written by SJWs or moral guardians)
 * 7) ConnerTheWaffle (does not look up about games properly and uses other people's footages without credit)
 * 8) Destructoid
 * 9) Digital Chumps
 * 10) DreamcastGuy (frequent biased reviews with inaccurate final verdict; adds clickbait titles and thumbnails)
 * 11) GameSpot
 * 12) Geeks + Gamers
 * 13) Google user ratings (opinion-based, even if there are more likes than dislikes on a game, they can still get negatively received by anyone)
 * 14) IGN
 * 15) Jim Sterling (2021-present) (overly politically driven)
 * 16) Mobile game store ratings (most of them are only about if the games work on the customers' devices and not their general reception)
 * 17) Kotaku (politically driven)
 * 18) One Angry Gamer
 * 19) Polygon (politically driven)
 * 20) Quarter to Three (extremely opinionated reviews)
 * 21) The Mary Sue (opinionated)
 * 22) Top Hat Gaming Man (overly opinionated and likes to add lewd images that have nothing to do with his videos to his thumbnails for no reason)
 * 23) Youtuber Radical Rick (just a drama news channel who falsely accused of most other YouTubers of e-begging and being greedy)
 * 24) Harman Smith (Nintendo fanboy who bashes pretty much anything that isn't Nintendo)
 * 25) The Guardian (politically driven)