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{{Infobox source reliability
 | type			= website
 | shortcut		= 
 | status		= d
 | last			= 2026
 | domain1		= thepointsguy.com
 | rfc			= [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 263#RfC: The Points Guy|RfC]]
 | rfcdate		= 2019
}}

{{WP:RSPIntro|The Points Guy}}

== Summary ==
In the 2026 RfC, The Points Guy was deprecated based on concerns about the site's [[WP:SPONSORED|native marketing]] and [[Affiliate marketing|affiliate revenue]] model. The Points Guy has advertising relationships with credit card and travel companies, receiving compensation when readers sign up for financial products via the website's links. In 2019, The Points Guy was acquired by [[WP:REDVENTURES|Red Ventures]], a publisher of [[WP:RSML|LLM-generated content]] which is itself considered generally unreliable.

== Excerpt ==
{{hatnote|Excerpt from the lead of [[The Points Guy]]:}}
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== Discussions ==
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=== Other ===
* [[MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/May 2019#thepointsguy.com]]
* [[MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/Archives/2019/03#"News" and "Reviews" sections of The Points Guy (thepointsguy.com/news, thepointsguy.com/reviews)]]
* [[MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/Archives/2019/04#"News" and "Reviews" sections of The Points Guy (thepointsguy.com/news, thepointsguy.com/reviews)]]

=== Recency ===
<span class="source-talk-last">{{WP:RSPLAST/sandbox|2026|table=no}}</span>

=== RfCs ===
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# 2019 [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 263#RfC: The Points Guy|RfC]]
# 2026 [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 512#RfC: The Points Guy (TPG)|RfC]]
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==Notes==
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==References==
<references />

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|- class="s-d" id="The Points Guy"
| data-sort-value="Points Guy" | [[The Points Guy]] <small>(TPG)</small>
| {{WP:RSPSTATUS|d}}
| {{sbll|December 2018|Sponsored consumer finance blogs|2018}} {{rsnl|263|RfC: The Points Guy|2019|rfc=y}} {{sbll|February 2026|Request for removal of thepointsguy.com from blacklist|2026}} {{rsnl|512|RfC: The Points Guy (TPG)|2026|rfc=y}}
| {{WP:RSPLAST|2026}}
| In the 2026 RfC, The Points Guy was deprecated based on concerns about the site's [[WP:SPONSORED|native marketing]] and [[Affiliate marketing|affiliate revenue]] model. The Points Guy has advertising relationships with credit card and travel companies, receiving compensation when readers sign up for financial products via the website's links. In 2019, The Points Guy was acquired by [[WP:REDVENTURES|Red Ventures]], a publisher of [[WP:RSML|LLM-generated content]] which is itself considered generally unreliable.
| {{WP:RSPUSES|thepointsguy.com}}
|}
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