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Metacritic is considered generally reliable for its review aggregation and its news articles on film, TV, and video games. There is no consensus on whether its blog articles and critic opinion pages are generally reliable for facts. There is consensus that user reviews on Metacritic are generally unreliable, as they are [[WP:SPS|self-published source]]s. Reviewers tracked by Metacritic are not automatically reliable for their reviews. In December 2019, video game aggregate site [[GameRankings]] shut down and merged with Metacritic; GameRankings's content is no longer accessible unless archived.<ref>{{cite web|last=Plunkett|first=Luke|title=RIP Gamerankings.com|url=https://kotaku.com/rip-gamerankings-com-1840250954|website=[[Kotaku]]|publisher=[[G/O Media]]|accessdate=2019-12-06|date=2019-12-05|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=GameRankings Shutting down |url=https://www.gamerankings.com/news.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204051348/https://www.gamerankings.com/news.html |archive-date=2019-12-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://gamasutra.com/view/news/355254/Review_aggregator_site_GameRankings_is_shutting_down.php|title=Review aggregator site GameRankings is shutting down |last=McAloon|first=Alissa|work=[[Gamasutra]]|date=December 5, 2019|accessdate=December 5, 2019}}</ref>

== Prior discussions ==
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<blockquote>''Please add links to other significant discussions.  When in doubt, read and rely on the discussions themselves, rather than the simple summary.''</blockquote>


* Simple summary of prior discussions: '''TBD'''

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==Notes==
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==References==
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== Original table row for comparison ==
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|- class="s-gr" id="Metacritic"
| [[Metacritic]] <small>([[GameRankings]])</small> {{WP:RSPSHORTCUT|WP:METACRITIC}}
| {{WP:RSPSTATUS|gr}}
| 10{{efn|See these discussions of Metacritic:
| {{WP:RSPLAST|2017}}
| Metacritic is considered generally reliable for its review aggregation and its news articles on film, TV, and video games. There is no consensus on whether its blog articles and critic opinion pages are generally reliable for facts. There is consensus that user reviews on Metacritic are generally unreliable, as they are [[WP:SPS|self-published source]]s. Reviewers tracked by Metacritic are not automatically reliable for their reviews. In December 2019, video game aggregate site [[GameRankings]] shut down and merged with Metacritic; GameRankings's content is no longer accessible unless archived.<ref>{{cite web|last=Plunkett|first=Luke|title=RIP Gamerankings.com|url=https://kotaku.com/rip-gamerankings-com-1840250954|website=[[Kotaku]]|publisher=[[G/O Media]]|accessdate=2019-12-06|date=2019-12-05|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=GameRankings Shutting down |url=https://www.gamerankings.com/news.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204051348/https://www.gamerankings.com/news.html |archive-date=2019-12-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://gamasutra.com/view/news/355254/Review_aggregator_site_GameRankings_is_shutting_down.php|title=Review aggregator site GameRankings is shutting down |last=McAloon|first=Alissa|work=[[Gamasutra]]|date=December 5, 2019|accessdate=December 5, 2019}}</ref>
| {{WP:RSPUSES|metacritic.com|gamerankings.com}}
|}