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OR - no longer independent (also logo)

This is all OR, and needs a source, but bears saying.

www.fivethirtyeight.com no longer exists. It is now an archived site, and soft-redirects users to https://abcnews.go.com/538. This implies to me that the company is no longer independent and is now more of an arms-length analysis body of ABC.

This change has also come with a new logo, with the numbers 538 stylised. If someone can find a source, that'd be brilliant. Couruu (talk) 13:52, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

unbalanced

The current state of this article is deplorable. There is next to no coverage of Nate Silver's failures, only his successes. I'm not saying he's not successful or influential. I'm saying the lack of a downside makes our article *very* suspicious. The {{primary}} tag is a huge problem, since it basically turns the article into a spokesperson for 538's excellence. The emphasis on the 538 performance on past elections is very likely undue, exacerbated by the lack of 3rd party coverage. After a brief look over I rate this article "close to trainwreck" status.

It needs some serious attention, preferably by people that follow US polling, to introduce some semblance of neutral balanced reporting, and also WAY more reliable sources. Failing such attention, I propose we trim down the article to its bare bones, and then let people organically add things back again (this time using secondary sources).

CapnZapp (talk) 21:27, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

100% just had this reaction after reading the two paragraphs describing the 2016 elections that read like a PR statement written by someone at the organization. I went straight to the talk page without even noticing the neutrality banner just to see if anyone else had brought it up. Tmore3 (talk) 04:28, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

podcast

the 538 podcast isn't mentioned. it was originally Jody Avirgan, Clare Malone, Harry Enten, and Nate Silver, and now it is Galen Druke, Leah Askarinam, Nathaniel Rakich, and Geoffrey Skelley.

Old website: https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/politics-podcast/
i don't think there is a special section on https://abcnews.go.com/538

would appreciate if someone would take the time to properly add it. cheers! --Lommes (talk) 06:04, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sean Quinn

Quinn's "on the road" sections were a major component of the site in the early days, but his existence seems to have been wiped from the article. Indeed, the first mention of him is now his announcement that he was leaving to join the White House press corps, which would only make sense if he had been a significant part of the site in the first place. I dont have time to comb through the history to find out why he was disappeared. Any thoughts? · rodii · 16:40, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I lied, I did have time. :) I restored the section, deleted in 2012 by User:Ypnypn as irrelevant, which I dispute. Feel free to disagree here if you like. · rodii · 16:55, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]