Healthline

Healthline
Type	website
Shortcut	WP:HEALTHLINE
Status	d
Deprecated	no
Blacklisted	no
Recency	2025
Domain healthline.com
	In source code; External links in articles; Spamcheck tool
RfC
Link	Rfc
Date	2023

This page is a test version of a potential new layout for the Perennial sources project. It is a demo and not part of the live listings. See Talk.

This source in a nutshell: Healthline is considered

deprecated. See § Summary.

Healthline is a source that has been repeatedly discussed at the Reliable sources noticeboard. This page collects and links information about previous discussions and current consensus, and summarizes it here for convenience.

Summary

Healthline is a medical resource that is substantially written by non-expert freelance writers and reviewed by non-expert advisors. The content is frequently incorrect misinformation, sometimes dangerously so. Due to the heightened requirements for biomedical and medical sources on Wikipedia, the consensus of editors in the 2023 RfC was to deprecate Healthline as an unusable source that cannot meet WP:MEDRS and to blacklist Healthline for the safety and well-being of our readers. References to Healthline should be removed from Wikipedia.

Excerpt

Healthline Media, Inc. is an American website and provider of health information headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1999, and purchased by Red Ventures in 2019. Healthline claimed to be using AI to generate content from 2023-2026, although that claim has now been reversed. Healthline is included on Wikipedia's spam blacklist due to its publication of misinformation.

Discussions

Links

RSN

WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 366#Nutritional information (Healthline/USDA)

WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 407#Healthline

WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 501#Medical News Today - a mirror publication of Healthline (blacklisted)

Recency

2025

Rfcs

2023 Rfc

Notes

References

Original table row for comparison

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Perennial sources
Source	Status (legend)	Discussions			Use
Source	Status (legend)	List	Last	Summary	Use
Healthline WP:HEALTHLINEWP:HEALTHLINE 📌		2023	2025	Healthline is a medical resource that is substantially written by non-expert freelance writers and reviewed by non-expert advisors. The content is frequently incorrect misinformation, sometimes dangerously so. Due to the heightened requirements for biomedical and medical sources on Wikipedia, the consensus of editors in the 2023 RfC was to deprecate Healthline as an unusable source that cannot meet WP:MEDRS and to blacklist Healthline for the safety and well-being of our readers. References to Healthline should be removed from Wikipedia.	1