Forbes contributor posts should be banned.

Contributor posts are not verified by Forbes themselves. They are effectively blog posts with no oversight, and are consistently filled with shilling or straight up wrong.Look at all this BS - Always saying "Forbes" "forbes" "FORBES" as to give it additional credibility. It's complete nonsense. To quote one of the top Wikipedia contributors:​The budget figure cited in the infobox was referenced to a fake Forbes article. Forbes contributors are not part of Forbes editorial. They are not journalists but just unpaid, HuffPo-like writer-wannabes. Forbes itself disavows them, writing at each column, "Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own." There's no editorial oversight — just Forbes cynically exploiting unpaid would-be journalists with little or no training who will write for "exposure." Amateur journalists writing without editorial oversight are just personal bloggers and not WP:RS.If Forbes itself won't vouch for these contributors' claims, how on Earth can an encyclopedia do so?​While we don't need to adhere to reliable source policy only, we should prevent blatant misinformation. This constant bullcrap needs to stop.

Submitted May 20, 2019 at 03:07AM