Wikipedia talk:Reliable South African Sources

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Hello TapticInfo, as an editor who's laser focused on the South African side of the encyclopedia I noticed that Independent Online and TimesLIVE where identified as marginally reliable or no consensus (yellow) from generally reliable (green) by the CiteHighliter script, and when I reached out to the script writer (here), I was told that the domains were moved here but I do not see any discussion where consensus to move the sites was reached. TimesLIVE was deemed reliable by admin Dodger67 approximately 11 years ago here (Park3r raised concern about IOL here) and consensus was reached last year making the aforementioned sites and The South African reliable at WP:NPPSG citing this discussion. After creating the articles Nandipha Magudumana and Tracking Thabo Bester I noticed that GroundUp suddenly turned green out of nowhere and it was never assessed at WP:RS/Noticeboard, was it because of the airing of Tracking Thabo Bester on Showmax and how they gave information on apprehending the most searched individual in 2023 in South Africa? I truly think you're doing a great job but wiki is a collaborative site where users come together to work on a certain task, so my question is why was the above-mentioned sites moved from reliable to no consensus? I'll be on the lookout for your response Thank you. dxneo (talk) 01:30, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Hey, Sorry for the late response, life has been crazy.

My intention with all “Usable but be cautious” sources are that they are still green, just that certain articles from those sources might be biased. TapticInfo (talk) 17:55, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Those sources have been assessed at WP:RS/Noticeboard as mentioned above. So a sole decision going against multiple users' consensus is not the way to go. Would you consider moving the sources back to "reliable" then consider opening an assessment discussion at WP:RS/Noticeboard to reach (new) consensus? dxneo (talk) 20:57, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello I come back I think theofficialsacharts.co.za should be listed under generally reliable sources as it issues musical charts and updates on music news and releases. Thoughts? dxneo (talk) 20:19, 3 June 2024 (UTC)