Talk:Honolulu Civil Beat

Deletion of "criticism" section
The section was unsourced and no editor responded to a request for sourcing posted in 2015. I did a very extensive search and could find no criticism in reliable sources or anywhere else about its content, save for a note in the Nonprofit Quarterly, which lacks a Wikipedia article which did not support the existing text. (The Nonprofit Quarterly is a decades-old publication and should not be confused with the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, which does have an article.) The deleted section noted that the Civil Beat reflected somewhat the founder's philosophy and featured coverage of political issues, but that was in fact the reason it was founded, including a maintaining a civic watchdog role. It seemed it was overdue to delete the section. At the same time the article overlooked a major change in the publication's status, becoming a nonprofit last year and dropping its paywall, so I brought it more up to date. Activist (talk) 19:16, 21 January 2017 (UTC)