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Simple Flying is an aviation blog and content farm which publishes articles without fact checking while engaging inplagiarism andchurnalism. Based on multiple discussions at thereliable sources noticeboard, there is a consensus that it is deprecated source and against using it as a citation on Wikipedia.

There is clear consensus that Simple Flying ispublishes false or fabricated information, and should bedeprecated based onthe most recent discussion at the reliable sources noticeboard.

There were also three previous discussions on the matter (1,2,3) and it ismarked deprecated in theUnreliable/Predatory Source Detector (UPSD) script andlisted as a source to avoid by WikiProject Aviation.

Simple Flying is widely viewed as a content farm which regularly publishes inaccurate and plagiarized articles.

There are many examples of Simple Flying's inaccuracies and failure to meetstandards of having a "reputation for fact-checking and accuracy" and being "well established"as we would expect. Some of them are listed below.

• Gary Leffposts: "That's just usual Simple Flying stuff,it's either ripped off or wrong, so it doesn't surprise me when both happen in the same piece."
• Bloomberg's aviation reporterposts: "I really wishSimple Flying would stop ripping off our stories and suffice it with a simple "credit" right at the bottom of the story. It just doesn't cut it."
• Ishiriondocuments some of their inaccuracies
• Enilria on Patrondocuments another article with inaccuracies (not corrected)
• Their "lead journalist" for Africa,contributing since 2018,graduated from high school in 2020. Hardly a professional news operation.
• Avideo about SAS that refers to Singapore Airlines throughout
• Articles where they discuss the A321XLR as operating (before it started commercial flying)
• Anarticle and video on the 747 where the video and the article contradict each other with the added bonus that it doesn't appear copyedited.
• They're owned by a company with a business model of churnalism for ad and affiliate revenue. We wouldn't considertheir other blogs to be reliable sources, why should Simple Flying be any different?

Despite the consensus that it is deprecated, there are a number of articles on Wikipedia whichlink to this website which require cleanup.WP:FIXTHEPROBLEM provides general suggestion how to do the cleanup, which are:fix problems if you can, tag or excise them if you can't.

Based on discussions at the noticeboard, the ideal course of action for any SimpleFlying citation is to impeach it by looking forreliable sources to replace it with.

Citations to Simple Flying may be tagged as needing cleanup at the editor's discretion.

• {{Better source needed|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}|reason=[[WP:Simple Flying]] is unreliable}}.

  Which gives:^{[better source needed]} where there is concern over a questionable source.

Alternatively, articles with existing citations to Simple Flying may be removed.

Suggested citation tags, where appropriate:

• {{citation needed|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}

  Which gives:^{[citation needed]} where an unreliable source is removed.

Citations to Simple Flying should be removed, if Simple Flying is not the only citation for the cited information and there are other citations from reliable source.

And, if cited information taken from SimpleFlying proved to be incorrect by other reliable sources, the cited information and it's citation should be removed.

If a citation is removed, editors should not re-add the citation without first gaining a consensus perWP:ONUS.

Suggested edit comments:

rm per [[WP:Simple Flying]] which links to this essay

rm per [[WP:RSPSIMPLEFLYING]] which links to Simple Flying's entry onWikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources.

tagging citation per [[WP:Simple Flying]] which links to this essay

tagging citation per [[WP:RSPSIMPLEFLYING]] which links to Simple Flying's entry onWikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources.

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