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| quote2 = Another editor, whose username is BullRangifer, suggested Wikipedia not become "a kangaroo court or lynching" by rushing to ban accounts who break COI. BullRangifer suggested following seven steps to determine whether "The Hunting Ground" crew member should be banned and whether his edits should be removed. Some of the steps included how he handled questions related to his edits and whether he stuck to discussion pages to ask for edits rather than making them himself.
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| quote3 = Support. If anything, it's even more unreliable than the Daily Mail, as they at least use trained journalists, whereas Breitbart is a fringe propaganda organization which lets its extreme partisan bias get in the way of how it reports things, and whether it does so, just as Fox News does. It too should be deprecated, but let's start with Breitbart (and InfoWars). — BullRangifer 17:51, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
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{{blockquote| '''All topics are allowed at Wikipedia'''<br/>
If a new article clearly passes the [[Wikipedia:Notability#General_notability_guideline|General Notability Guideline (GNG)]], and doesn't contain any issues so serious they cannot easily be solved by following [[Wikipedia:Editing_policy#Try_to_fix_problems|WP:PRESERVE]], then there is no conceivable topic that Wikipedia should not cover in depth. None. -- User:Valjean}}
That is not just an application of [[Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_censored| WP:NOTCENSORED]], but is more importantly an application of the very [[Wikipedia:WikiPurpose|"purpose of Wikipedia's existence]]", which Jimbo summed up as "to give free access to the sum of all human knowledge" as it is described in reliable sources:
* "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." -- Jimmy Wales ([https://www.ted.com/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia/transcript source])
* "If I go looking for info, and Wikipedia doesn't have it, then Wikipedia has failed." -- User:Baseball Bugs ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_Jeopardy!_contestants_%282nd_nomination%29&diff=1037146565&oldid=1037132792&diffmode=source source])
The "sum of all human knowledge" literally means '''all''' information, not just what has traditionally been covered in ancient encyclopedias. Wikipedia is different. It documents all facts, opinions, beliefs, lies, conspiracy theories, pseudoscientific nonsense, etc. It documents the existence of it all. There is no topic that is so weird, repulsive, or odd that Wikipedia won't cover it, as long as the defining conditions (above) are met. -- [[User:Valjean|Valjean]] ([[User talk:Valjean|talk]]) (PING me) 15:58, 28 June 2025 (UTC)
== Timbo's Rules ==
[[User:Carrite#Timbo's Rules|Timbo's Rules]], a treasure trove. -- [[User:Valjean|Valjean]] ([[User talk:Valjean|talk]]) (PING me) 16:03, 28 June 2025 (UTC)
== Wikipedia Vs. Epistemic Insecurity: Why the World's Most Trusted Website Still Matters ==
Great article:
* {{cite web
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| first=Steven
| title=Wikipedia Vs. Epistemic Insecurity: Why the World's Most Trusted Website Still Matters
| website=[[Medium (website)|Medium]]
| date=July 1, 2025
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| quote=It's ... millions of everyday people, quietly volunteering to defend something that used to feel simpler: the truth. ... Wikipedia has doubled down on its core values: verifiability, transparency, neutrality, and above all, public trust. ... It's become a kind of cultural immune system. A living archive. A firewall against epistemic rot. ... "If we want a future where truth still matters, we have to build it—not with algorithms or ads, but with people." Truth is slow work in a fast-moving world. It's not easy. But in this moment, it may be one of the most urgent issues we have to face.
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[[User:Valjean|Valjean]] ([[User talk:Valjean|talk]]) (PING me) 17:41, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
:A worthwhile read, thank you. - [[User:Roxy the dog|'''Roxy''' ]]the [[User talk:Roxy the dog|'''dog''']] 18:00, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
:+1. --[[User:Tryptofish|Tryptofish]] ([[User talk:Tryptofish|talk]]) 19:56, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
Our work here is important, especially in these times when historical revisionism and thinly disguised coverups are pushed directly from the WH, FBI, and CIA, and RS and journalists are threatened and sued by the DOJ and Trump. Some editors are claiming that the consensus about "Russian interference" has changed since 2022, but that is just Trump gaining power and his minions unflinchingly refusing to accept the findings we describe in our articles. Nothing else has come out in RS since then that seriously undermines those findings, but the far larger mass of right-wing media do nothing but spread doubt about those findings, and that is considered some kind of "consensus" that the findings are false, and that Trump and Russia are the victims of a witch hunt. Anything that appears to reverse the findings will, with closer inspection, be found to come from the MAGA and Trump camp, so we know it's lies. They faithfully follow the Big Lie tactic (never stop repeating a big lie ''ad nauseum'') and never admit you are wrong (a lesson taught to Trump by Roy Cohn).
Sorry about the rant, but you'll see from my [[Talk:Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#%22Partisan_slant%22?_We_do_not_push_fringe_views_here.|last few edits]] where this is coming from. Dealing with fringe editors (defined as those who use unreliable sources) is a scary look down the rabbit hole into a bubble where RS are not allowed at all. We literally have editors pushing the idea that the Russians did NOT interfere to aid Trump, and that he did NOT welcome and cooperate with the Russian efforts. They think that RS reporting, and our articles built on them, are wrong. They want to reverse the narrative at [[Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections]] and whitewash Trump. SMH. -- [[User:Valjean|Valjean]] ([[User talk:Valjean|talk]]) (PING me) 03:22, 3 July 2025 (UTC)
:"And somehow, in 2025, Wikipedia has become more than a website. It’s become a kind of cultural immune system. A living archive. A firewall against epistemic rot."
:Your link has been nagging at my hindbrain these last few days, probably the best representation of why wikipedia works that I've seen in a while. That's all ;) [[User:Roxy the dog|'''Roxy''' ]]the [[User talk:Roxy the dog|'''dog''']] 10:21, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
:: It's a good article and shows why our work here is important. I never dreamed when I started editing here as an IP in 2003 that this project would even work. I saw how important websites got crowded out by competitors, then closed and disappeared, and how software programs and fancy devices did the same.
:: I half-suspected that this was too big a dream, an unrealistic project, far too visionary for its own britches, but I got hooked and stuck with it. Now, in the face of attempts to rewrite history, cover up crimes and treason, and wipe truth off the face of the earth, starting with America, I see our work as very important, a sort of "truth's last stand". Custer might have been killed, but we will each resist until DJT's minions succeed in picking us off one-by-one.
:: He will soon realize that Wikipedia, by fact-checking and documenting all claims, is his most dangerous foe, and he will mount an attack that may succeed. Until then, we must do our duty to document what RS say. He may end up blocking freedom of speech and freedom of the press by controlling the American media landscape and jailing and exiling all critics, but media in other lands still speak truth to power, and we can cite them. -- [[User:Valjean|Valjean]] ([[User talk:Valjean|talk]]) (PING me) 14:46, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
== Patel and Ratcliffe try to bolster claims that FBI and CIA conspired against Trump. ==
Now we are starting to get RS coverage of attempts to cover-up and sane wash Trump. Here's a story from NBC News: [https://web.archive.org/web/20250705154633/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/patel-ratcliffe-try-bolster-claims-fbi-cia-conspired-trump-rcna216848 Patel and Ratcliffe try to bolster claims that FBI and CIA conspired against Trump.] "The release of formerly classified documents this week shows how Trump appointees are using their power to try to prop up his allegations about both agencies."
I already had the original CIA release and links to myriad unreliable sources' coverage of it, but now we can start to cover it here at Wikipedia. -- [[User:Valjean|Valjean]] ([[User talk:Valjean|talk]]) (PING me) 15:57, 5 July 2025 (UTC)
== Of course there is a controversy... ==
From [[User_talk:DonFB#Please_avoid_personal_attacks]], about [[Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections]]
Of course there is a controversy and more than one side to the situation. That is always the case with controversial topics. Whenever there is a disagreement between RS, we cover both sides of the story and assign the due weight that seems to be warranted, but both sides do get coverage. By contrast, whenever someone lies about proven events and tries to cover up their wrongdoing, a second side to the story is created, but that side has no due weight on its own. We do not publish articles or content that is only documented in unreliable sources, which are the sources most likely to push the lie as a fact. We do not publish conspiracy theories that are ignored by mainstream sources.
At Wikipedia, we do not create a false balance by treating the two sides as of equal due weight. We completely ignore the matter if no RS deal with it. If they do, then we frame the narrative with the same framing used in RS, IOW we call out the lies. That's the NPOV way to do it, without the interposition of our own personal beliefs. We let the RS speak. That's what David Corn did with Kash Patel's lies, but then you objected by deleting, rather than improving, the content.
If there are mainstream RS that accurately report the controversy, then please provide them and the way you feel the story should be reported. Provide RS and exact proposed wordings. Other editors will then have something to work with. Your complaints will just get ignored if you don't go through those customary steps toward inclusion or change. Here is a [https://web.archive.org/web/20250705154633/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/patel-ratcliffe-try-bolster-claims-fbi-cia-conspired-trump-rcna216848 new RS] that discusses attempts to push Trump's lies about elections and Russian interference. Those are the types of sources you can use. They cover both sides with the appropriate due weight and framing. I hope you find more sources like that we can use.
Note that previous FBI and CIA reports, under the non-partisan leaders who served multiple and changing administrations, provide one form of information that is non-partisan and usually fairly accurate, within the limits of how intelligence agencies and their security and secrecy strategies allow. (Under J. Edgar Hoover there was abuse of the FBI's powers, and we are now seeing that same type of abuse under "Trump's FBI".)
Now, under Trump, we are seeing the same type of system being established as one sees in Russia and other authoritarian countries, where everyone is sworn to loyalty of the leader, not the Constitution. Under Trump, loyalty oaths are required, and the main Big Lie that must be supported and pushed is Trump's false "stolen election" lie. No one who will not push that lie gets a job under Trump. Every single department and agency leader is a Trump loyalist, a situation we have never seen before. They are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution and serve the country, not serve the President.
So we're dealing with older, more likely accurate, reports from the FBI and CIA, and newer reports from the current FBI and CIA that have only one purpose, and that is to push Trump's agendas, cover-up his misdeeds, and protect and sane wash him. They are now untrustworthy sources and doing the same job as Trump's fixers, like Michael Cohen, Keith Schiller, and Marc Kasowitz. They were paid to lie for Trump, and pay off and threaten witnesses and litigants. Steve Bannon, Trump's personal advisor, described part of their job by stating that Trump's personal attorney "[[Marc Kasowitz]] 'took care' of 100 women during the presidential campaign."[https://www.businessinsider.com/bannon-trump-lawyer-took-care-of-a-hundred-women-2018-1 source] Hush money payments are a huge part of that protection racket.
But that's a different type of protection than what we're talking about here. "Trump's CIA and FBI" (yes, he very improperly controls them) are working to cover-up his involvment in the Russiagate scandal (where Russia attacked the American elections) and his cooperation with Russian efforts. That is now their job, so anything from "Trump's CIA and FBI" cannot be trusted, even when coming from official government sources.
That creates a problem for Wikipedia's editors, the same type of problem where authoritarian governments censor Wikipedia and persecute, arrest, and kill editors (I believe that 2-3 are known to have been killed) who refuse to use the unreliable sources and declarations from those governments. Will editors on the English Wikipedia bow to this pressure and believe the lies coming from Trump's "government"?
This is a topic worthy of a WikiProject. We need to figure out how to deal with this situation, because it's a serious matter. As long as we do not bow and start engaging in historical revisionism and using unreliable sources, we're okay. It is only when some fringe editors start to show they are bowing to that pressure, or worse yet, actually believe the lies, that we have a problem. -- [[User:Valjean|Valjean]] ([[User talk:Valjean|talk]]) (PING me) 16:29, 5 July 2025 (UTC)
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== Crossfire Hurricane ==
OK, may I ask why you are able to determine the edit "did not improve the article?" Are we not permitted to provide information learned and properly cited? [[User:Blambert1313|Blambert1313]] ([[User talk:Blambert1313|talk]]) 22:19, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
: Maybe because I know the subject well and have much more experience here? I've been here since 2003. That doesn't mean that newbie's can't make improvements. It happens all the time, but they often make mistakes or add content that does not improve the article. Your comment, which is a personal opinion, was not up to par for accuracy, and adding a source did not change that fact. There was also a comment someone else had left before you, and I also deleted it in the same edit.
: When you find that your changes to an article are not accepted, please just follow the [[WP:BRD]] procedure and start a conversation about the matter on the article's talk page. Suggest an improvement and the sources you'd like to use. (Never [[WP:EW|edit war]], which you have not done, so thanks for that.) The article's talk page is where this conversation should be taking place, not here. That way, other editors who are watching the page can also chime in. To save us both time, I'll copy this thread to that page. -- [[User:Valjean|Valjean]] ([[User talk:Valjean|talk]]) (PING me) 23:17, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
== Series of articles by Andrew C. McCarthy ==
The articles are about the false "Russiagate" claims and the CIA report Ratcliffe is touting — "Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Election Interference."
The conservative [[Andrew C. McCarthy]] gets a lot wrong, but he does have a point that Ratcliffe's and the Trump CIA's effort to prosecute Brennan and Comey is pointless and baseless.
1. [https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/07/russiagate-revisited-trump-cia-chief-refers-brennan-and-comey-for-criminal-investigation/ Russiagate Revisited: Trump CIA Chief Refers Brennan and Comey for Criminal Investigation], July 13, 2025
: https://archive.ph/smwNo 14 Jul 2025 00:34:44 UTC
2. [https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/07/russiagate-revisited-the-centrality-of-john-brennan/ Russiagate Revisited: The Centrality of John Brennan], July 14, 2025
: https://archive.ph/TWuzL 14 Jul 2025 11:41:59 UTC
3. [https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/07/russiagate-revisited-an-unforced-error-that-highlights-russias-interference-in-the-2016-election/ Russiagate Revisited: An Unforced Error that Highlights Russia’s Interference in the 2016 Election], July 15, 2025
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== Election Denial Page ==
Hi, could you work on adding the 2004 presidential election to the page? 31 House Democrats and 1 senator (Barbara Boxer) formally objected to Ohio’s slate of electoral votes on January 6th, 2005. There is also the “What Went Wrong in Ohio” report from John Conyers. Also the fact that some House Democrats objected on January 6th, 2017 should be mentioned. And of course the 2000 presidential election. “Hail to the Thief” and all that.
I don’t know if you’ll see all this, but I’m pretty sure you have the authority to edit that particular page.
Thank you for reading this. [[Special:Contributions/71.174.93.202|71.174.93.202]] ([[User talk:71.174.93.202|talk]]) 22:59, 14 August 2025 (UTC)
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