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This article has previously been nominated to be moved.

Discussions:

Not moved, 17 March 2012, from Salon.com to Salon (website), see discussion.
Not moved, 15 January 2013, from Salon (website) to Salon (magazine), see discussion.
Moved, 10 June 2021, from Salon (website) to Salon.com, see discussion.

Change of position[edit]

I believe, from what I've gathered, that Salon no longer is writing "from a politically progressive or left-wing perspective" as the article says, but rather a right to far-right perspective. Not only is there the previous section about antisemitism to back that up, but also its endorsment by the alt-right (proof). I strongly encourage further research to be made in this direction, specifically how and why it changed its political stance. 7dare (talk) 22:07, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please see WP:OR. Saturnalia0 (talk) 00:31, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This position is not factual, Salon.com just today called the Republican Party a "Terrorist Organization". Is Salon.com considered a reliable source? 66.68.178.180 (talk) 02:19, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@66.68.178.180: There is no consensus about the reliability of Salon per WP:Perennial sources Dronebogus (talk) 02:43, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox: website or newspaper[edit]

There's an RfC on whether a news website should use {{Infobox website}} or {{Infobox newspaper}}: Talk:The Times of Israel#RfC on infobox. --Triggerhippie4 (talk) 14:02, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Curious what the original URL was[edit]

It wasn't salon.com until well into 1999:

February 21, 1999 - Hairstylists

April 23, 1999 - Newsmagazine

Immigrant laborer (talk) 03:03, 19 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

salonmag.com - Immigrant laborer (talk) 13:10, 19 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 10 June 2021[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Lennart97 (talk) 20:42, 17 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Salon (website) → Salon.com – The last discussion of this article’s title was in 2012 (link), over whether to move the article from "Salon.com" to "Salon (website)", and it closed as "not moved" (though maybe "no consensus" would have been more accurate). However, the article was then moved to "Salon (website)" after the admin that closed the RM appears to have changed their mind and moved the article to "Salon (website)", the current title. Aside from this, my rationale for proposing a move back to Salon.com is as follows:

While just "Salon" is probably the most common title, WP:NATURAL disambiguation is preferred to parenthetical disambiguation (as is currently used). For reference, the policy text describing natural disambiguation is: "Using an alternative name that the subject is also commonly called in English reliable sources, albeit not as commonly as the preferred-but-ambiguous title." The policy text clarifies that natural is preferred to parenthetical disambiguation: "In a similar vein, hand fan is preferable to fan (implement)."
"Salon.com" is still commonly used even on the website itself: the <title> HTML element of Salon's homepage is: "Salon.com | News, Politics, Culture, Science & Food". Same goes for articles — example: “Joe Manchin's "highly suspicious" reversal on voting bill follows donation from corporate lobby | Salon.com”.
In addition, the name of the company that publishes the website is Salon.com, LLC.

For these reasons, I believe the article should be moved back to "Salon.com". —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 20:17, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy ping to proposer and closer of previous RM: UtherSRG, DeLarge. The user who initially made the WP:BOLD move referenced in the first RM is indef blocked. —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 20:18, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support: Seems logical, they clearly use the ".com" in their branding and naming conventions. BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 20:39, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support: I second the motion (so to speak). -- M.boli (talk) 22:33, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Makes sense. Egsan Bacon (talk) 03:07, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support per WP:NATURAL._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 04:24, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Passed away[edit]

There are quite a few people listed as staff on this page who passed away in the last 5 years. Spoonpassport (talk) 04:24, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sources? And the page isn't protected so you can update this yourself. — Bilorv (talk) 10:47, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I can't update it because of a conflict, but the information on current staff can be easily found by looking at the site's masthead. Particularly troubling is none of the current staff or management of color are mentioned anywhere in this article at all. Spoonpassport (talk) 15:49, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]