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Please take a look at Cindy Hyde-Smith. The article says "They have a daughter, who they sent to Brookhaven Academy, a school that was established to enable white children to attend a school without blacks." I believe this is a WP:BLP violation, and an especially pernicious one as it implicates a non-public figure minor child. The given source says "U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith attended and graduated from a segregation academy ( Lawrence County Academy) that was set up so that white parents could avoid having to send their children to schools with black students" and later says "Years later, Hyde-Smith would send her daughter, Anna-Michael, to Brookhaven Academy." It says nothing about any racial motivation for Hyde-Smith's choice in where to send her daughter to school. In fact, the issue of Hyde-Smith's alma mater being a segregation academy is covered in Hyde-Smith's article in the section about her education. I get that everyone has their undies in a bundle about the Missisippi Senate election, but putting this content in the article about a minor child who likely had no choice about where she attended school (it's quite unlikely that Hyde-Smith herself had any choice about where she attended school either, FWIW) doesn't exactly seem above board. Marquardtika ( talk) 17:21, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
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Arguing over strength of sources, or presentation, etc. is one thing but coatracking? Where she went to school and sent her daughter is biography not coatracking. [2] It is also news that these assertions came up, so we have to decide how to handle that in a NOTNEWS fashion, one way may be to discuss just noting the issue about her life came up depending on sourcing. -- Alanscottwalker ( talk) 20:27, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
The original discussion started claiming this was a BLP for hyde-smiths daughter who was a non-public minor, which is totally false as she graduated in 2017. It's then devolved into accusations about unreliable sources (false), lack of sources (false). It's hard to discuss simultaneously against UNDUE and "passive-aggressive" which are opposites. The article content is sourced and accurate, this quote "Cindy Hyde-Smith sent her daughter to a private school created to help white kids bypass integration" from this source? seems much like the article content. It really seems to be a case of let's censor this because I don't like it! Jacona ( talk) 22:18, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
@ ν, feel free to stalk my edits to see if you can find any evidence to back up your accusation. I rarely bother with current politics - I became involved in this article because I was working on the article of an individual who was murdered by a relative of Hyde-Smith's in 1955 in order to suppress the (presumably republican) black vote. They never were tried, in spite of the murder being in broad daylight in front of the courthouse and scads of eyewitnesses. They are buried in the cemetery of the same church Hyde-Smith now attends. I think these edits are very mild in the light of her family history. Jacona ( talk) 00:27, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
Another thing here; all of this is really related to the campaign - or at least there's no indication of importance beyond being a campaign controversy. Meaning any criticism/controversy over these things should be contained in Cindy Hyde-Smith#Special election campaign, 2018. Galobtter ( pingó mió) 06:58, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
This story has received some additional coverage since yesterday - with mentions on USA Today, CNN, the Washington Post (editorial), and the AP, as well as a response from the Hyde-Smith campaign itself. I think we can make a case for expanding some of the discussion of the controversies in this campaign. Here's what I would suggest:
On November 24, the Jackson Free Press reported that Hyde-Smith had attended Brookhaven Academy, a school that was founded in 1970 by parents who wanted to avoid sending their children to integrated public schools. The paper wrote that Hyde-Smith's education "adds historic context" to her earlier remarks about a "public hanging". cite1, cite2 Hyde-Smith's campaign criticized the report, calling it a personal attack the drew attention from real issues. cite3, cite 4
I would suggest placing this here, right after the paragraph discussing the public hanging remarks. Nblund talk 22:27, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
By the way, I grew up in the South, and my parents were racist, and when desegregation was mandated in 1970, my parents switched their three youngest children to the local private day school (my older brother finished at the public high school; he had only one year to go); they explained that we would get a better education. The private school was excellent, and I blossomed there and had a great education, regardless of my parents' mixed motivations for sending us there. Later, my college best friend teased me that I went to a segregation academy. Maybe it was one -- it was founded in 1957 -- but it was an excellent school and I'm glad I attended it. Many if not most of my teachers were Northerners, and very liberal, and apparently corrupted us, in the eyes of my father LOL. Point is, not every private school in the South is a sinister white-supremacist stronghold, and not every motivation for sending Southern children to private schools is 100% race-based. Softlavender ( talk) 17:31, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
This has drifted pretty far afield. The specific issue is whether it is BLP-compliant to note that Cindy Hyde-Smith attended a segregation academy (that is, an all-white private school founded to defy integration), and later sent her daughter to a similar school. A non-exhaustive list of sources includes the following:
So there are multiple high-quality reliable sources attesting to the fact that Hyde-Smith attended a segregation academy. Some, but not all, of these sources also mention that she sent her daughter to such a school. These sources satisfy the requirements set forth in WP:BLP, so there is no BLP concern with including this information. That Hyde-Smith attended such a school is a fact, and one that reliable sources deem relevant to her biography. It's our job to present relevant, well-sourced facts, and if we can't do that job, for whatever reason, then we need to take a step back. The reader can determine what they think of the fact that Hyde-Smith attended an all-white segregation academy, but we don't get to decide for them by suppressing that relevant, well-sourced fact (and here I'm looking at you, Masem). I don't see the point in continued discussion here, especially since this thread seems to have degenerated into a platform for increasingly bizarre and policy-ignorant claims about the press, white nationalism, and so on. MastCell Talk 19:31, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
Marriages section says he married Sophie de Niverville in 2003, and subsequently suggests he spoke of their divorce "a year earlier" in 2001. Someone with proper information should update this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.151.236.217 ( talk) 09:19, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
At Hell's Kitchen (U.S. season 18) there have been several unsourced claims about contestants regarding ages and names/nicknames. Several editors are supporting claims with dubious references and even resorting to WP:SYNTH, which seems to be a BLP violation. One editor involved in this has used a YouTube source (see here) but when I try to view it I get a mesage that the content is blocked because I am in Australia, not the U.S. Could someone in the U.S. please verify that this source is valid? There was another source added in this edit for "Roe DiLeo" but that times out for me. I'd like to ensure that all of these edits are valid. Thanks. -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 16:07, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
The infobox of this controversial article says "Perpetrators: Congress Party members". I raised a concern about it on the Talk Page thread stating that although there are several reports alleging members of the Congress party as perpetrators, no court of law has convicted The Congress Party for this riot. In fact the legal Enquiry commission has exonerated Congress leaders. Accordingly User:Britmax who agreed with the concern, removed the defamatory piece of information from the infobox.
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Book 2. Quote from book 1 says ..assassination, was followed by pogroms against Sikhs organized by elements within the Congress Party.
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I note that these sources are only accusatory neither of these sources claim a conviction. The second source in fact notes that Congress members were exonerated. hence our article infobox should not include this parameter since it is not established.
WP:BLPCRIME states that A living person accused of a crime is presumed innocent until convicted by a court of law. Accusations, investigations and arrests do not amount to a conviction. This defamatory and accusatory content in infobox is now being fiercely supported on the talk page by some editors.
I am posting here for the opinion of neutral editors at BLPN about the content in question and the source. -- DBig Xrayᗙ 16:22, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
An IP has recently piped the text "A. Wyatt Mann" to link to the article Nick Bougas on the page about Ben Garrison (see here). Apparently a Buzzfeed News article seems to strongly imply that Bougas drew a bunch of offensive cartoons under the pseudonym "A. Wyatt Mann" without exactly definitively stating as much. Note also that the article on Bougas now flatly states that he drew many cartoons under this pseudonym as a fact, citing the aforementioned Buzzfeed article as its source. I am concerned that this single source is insufficient to be making these kinds of serious claims about a living person. IntoThinAir ( talk) 01:50, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Matthew Gordon-Banks -- the details of whose name haven't been stable -- is a politician whose article has been contentious for some time, as seen in Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive220#Matthew Banks (2015), Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive256#Matthew Gordon Banks (2017), to a minor degree in Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/BLP issues on British politics articles (2018; related: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive299#Philip Cross, Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 130#User:Philip Cross, Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive983#User:Philip Cross has COI), and again in the forefront in Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive276#Matthew Gordon Banks (2018), its talk page (as recently as this month), and its very recent edit history. As recently as two weeks ago, I'd never heard of the man. (I stepped in when I read of the article at WP:BLPN/Archive276.) It might help if I returned, but right now I lack the time. In view of the recent edit history and recent comments on the talk page, could some disinterested, level-headed people willing to digest the talk page and familiar with BLP-related policy please tackle this? -- Hoary ( talk) 01:35, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
If an allegation or incident is noteworthy, relevant, and well documented, it belongs in the article—even if it is negative and the subject dislikes all mention of it. If you cannot find multiple reliable third-party sources documenting the allegation or incident, leave it out(emphasis per BLP). At the time of the original discussion, there was only one article in a local source that documented the incident, so it was removed. Now the argument is that a local source has published two articles, so therefore, it meets the definition of multiple third-party sources. I disagree with that conclusion, my belief is that multiple third-party sources means sources independent of one another. I'm staying out of it, Banks himself, at one time has edited the article I believe as an IP, had others edit on his behalf, he has left a message on my talk page, and there are several others who insist that the incident remain in the article at all costs. Banks also regularly posts on the talk page as well. Good luck, I'm done with that mess. Isaidnoway (talk) 20:06, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
If you cannot find multiple reliable third-party sources documenting the allegation or incident, leave it out. I am truly flabbergasted that you don't understand this. And why are you only pinging me, I'm not the only editor who has objected and removed this content in the last two years. Isaidnoway (talk) 19:25, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
A user is deleting a sourced statement regarding the end of Greg Goff's tenure as head baseball coach at Alabama, stating it is inaccurate and libelous. Other users (including me) have restored it, stating that it is properly sourced, and requesting a source to contradict the information. We've tried taking it to talk pages, but still seem to be at loggerheads. Can some uninvolved editors take a look and weigh in? Billcasey905 ( talk) 01:17, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
While patrolling RC, I have observed quite a number of edits adding ethnicity or heritage to BLPs, and have also seen many articles where this information is already present.
Do we have a policy or informal consensus of any kind on whether this information is relevant? Are there any special sourcing requirements?
The Uninvited Co., Inc. 17:08, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Multiple sources say Nguyen is training to be an astronaut. An editor has been repeatedly adding that Nguyen "claims to be in training" and "is not a member of any official training class". The editor has also continually added that her Nobel Peace Prize nomination "is contested by the Nobel Peace Prize committee official nomination procedures and dates." CowHouse ( talk) 10:02, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
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A "new user" tag teaming with another to insert material that draws a novel synthesis from a published source in order to say "In a 1993 meeting with a minister for the disabled Simon Wessely claimed that “Benefits can often make [ME] patients worse.”" - this is not in the source, and the article has been the subject of a sustained hate campaign by a minority of activists. Guy ( Help!) 18:42, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
Someone continues to add the name "Soumaya Mekouar" in the list of children. But that is not correct. The ambassador has only one child: "Camil Mekouar"
Could you please ensure that this change does not occur again?
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IsmaelBelkhayat ( talk • contribs) 02:12, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
Josh Hawley ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Josh Hawley's birthplace is currently listed as Lexington, Missouri, but should be listed as Springdale, Arkansas. This violates the Verifiability policy because Lexington, Missouri is not backed up with a citation. Lexington, Missouri as Hawley's birthplace also violates Verifiability because the article's first cited source, Josh Hawley's Worthy Climb | National Review, contradicts the article's information about his birthplace and instead says he was born in Sprindale, Arkansas (top of fourth paragraph). — Preceding unsigned comment added by MallenSchulde ( talk • contribs) 00:27, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
Someone has posted an utterly offensive photo in bio of Mr. Barr. It should be removed immediately. — Preceding unsigned comment added by VerbatimCT ( talk • contribs) 17:36, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
It seems that this individual has been in the news due to a recent arrest. I have removed this material pursuant to WP:BLPCRIME but it is a borderline case.
IPs are adding the accusations to the article in a titilating and unencyclopedic fashion. I'm not going to get involved futher, but I would encourage others to watch the page and clean up the worst of the text.
Uninvited Company 22:39, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Articles being used to attack or promote their subjects, obviously for political reasons.
I have no interest in looking through the background and history of these articles, but my inclination would be to remove large portions of the articles (which I started to do before seeing the scope of the problems), protecting the articles, and notifying all relevant WP:SPA editors. Maybe there are sanctions beyond BLP that apply?
Those are from the the edits of Juanelo1931 ( talk · contribs). I've not looked further. -- Ronz ( talk) 18:18, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
John Roxborough Smith ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Incorrect spelling of middle name in article title (correct spelling is: Roxburgh).
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My apologies, as I am new to editing Wiki articles and not certain if I responding to this properly, but is someone able to help update this page based on this recent obituary? Date of birth, date of death, and middle name all require corrections: [1] -- Articleroamer ( talk) 17:12, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
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Unsourced material keeps being added to this article. Subject doesn't appear WP:Notable. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 01:49, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
Over the last year some unreliable and possibly slanderous information has been added to Australian National EL class. The changes are not backed by any reliable source (and nor could I find one) so I suspect they may be a BLP violation. I'm requesting that the article be reverted to Special:Permalink/805627865 and revdel applied to the intervening edits. There has been no other substantial editing activity. Triptothecottage ( talk) 07:34, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
Any admins around who can have a look at this page? Greywin and Simonm223 are in a dispute--Greywin, do not restore those names until this is resolved. Drmies ( talk) 19:32, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
That's not what independent notability means. See also WP:BLP1E. Simonm223 ( talk) 19:48, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
"seriously consider not including material—in any article"- but it does preclude discussion (backed up by sources) on the talk page on the subject of whether to include or not (and implies this should be discussed, considered, in talk). Icewhiz ( talk) 19:42, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Greywin You're wrong that we're going to the wall to protect this person. What people are going to the wall to protect are: 1) Wikipedia. 2) Due process in criminal proceedings. Those are both things your WP:BLPCRIME violations cause risks to. Simonm223 ( talk) 20:03, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Former naturopath Britt Marie Hermes claims to have been converted away from naturopathy after reporting her then boss for importing an unapproved substance to treat cancer. Accordingly, in a couple oif interviews explaining how she came to oppose naturopathy she has mentioned this event and her ex-boss. [13] [14] Her boss was reprimanded by the Arizona Naturopathic Physicians Medical Board and was never charged. To what extent should we cover this in the two articles? Under WP:BLPNAME should we be naming the naturopath in the two articles? - Bilby ( talk) 22:34, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
There is an ongoing RFC which may be of interest to the watchers of this page at Talk:Neil_deGrasse_Tyson#Request_for_comment_(RfC) ResultingConstant ( talk) 00:41, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
it belongs in the article.
allegation belongs in the biography, citing those sources. In any case, the noticeboard here may be interested in building consensus for a particular text. ResultingConstant ( talk) 01:57, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
Could WP:BLPN regulars take a look at this bio? It seems overly concerned with a spat between the subject and another individual, and does little to establish notability. 86.133.149.178 ( talk) 02:17, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
The photograph of the tennis player on the Cliff Richey bio page is not Cliff Richey. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8801:F800:F500:F5E2:E2D6:6865:232C ( talk) 23:28, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
Michael Seed Michael Seed ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) I removed references to people in lists on this subject s they seemed to be false. Much of the article is true but with unreliable sources used but some seems false on purpose.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a02:c7f:383c:ec00:5ba:222:8c63:f09f ( talk) 14:33, December 11, 2018 (UTC)
Can someone take a look at the linked article and the IP's contributions to it? They seem NPOV and done by a connected contributor, but I don't actually know much about the guy so they could possibly be correcting an existing bias in the article. Not sure here, figured we could use a few extra sets of eyes on this. cymru.lass ( talk • contribs) 20:30, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
This is just a heads-up so people know what they're seeing... we've attracted a chap in Portugal with a rather unusual MO and access to a hefty range of IP addresses, who is active across a number of BLP articles. His standard practice is to add a mass of unsourced genealogical information (usually relating to the European ancestry of American individuals) and to expand the place of birth location to include every conceivable level of geolocation. He will edit war (no edit summaries or discussion) using a variety of (usually Vodaphone) IPs to keep this information in the article. A fairly standard example showing both behaviours is this. A smattering of the articles affected so far:
There are many more, however. I'm posting this so that people are aware of this user; given that he has access through his ISP to a wide pool of IPs and seems fairly persistent, affected pages should probably be raised at RFPP if more than one revert is needed. Yunshui 雲 水 08:39, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
At Joe Mercola many of Mercola's views are cited to his own website, followed by statements debunking them sourced to RS. I didn't think all this self sourcing was how wikipedia is supposed to be written(even with the debunking statements after), so I started removing this [17], with plans to add secondary sourced material as I found it. My content removal may have been too aggressive, and was mistaken for whitewashing and reverted by User:JzG [18] I have since added some snopes sources and an SBM article, but I don't want to turn the article into a copy of snopes, and i cant find that many sources debunking mercola. I would like to add more from SBM, but am concerned about WP:BLPSPS, there seems to be some consensus that SBM is not an SPS, but if I remember correctly someone suggested that SBM used to be an SPS so what about their older articles? and what about articles on SBM that are written by Gorski himself? Thanks for any advice. Tornado chaser ( talk) 00:10, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
The article is full of synthesis and original research. It lists a number of his views, then rebuts them with scientific sources that do not mention Mercola. It also provides a list of his "controversial" views, which is sourced to his writing, but no source that they are controversial. A better approach would be to use reliable secondary sources about Mercola, explaining his views and the degree to which they differ from orthodox views. TFD ( talk) 01:27, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
"Dr. Gorski must emphasize that the opinions expressed in his posts on SBM are his and his alone and that all blog posts for SBM and elsewhere are written during his own time during evenings and weekends."Case closed? Politrukki ( talk) 18:05, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
claiming manifestations of AIDS (including opportunistic infections and death) may be the result of "psychological stress" brought on by the belief that HIV is harmful) that Tornado chaser removed [20]. The original version was added in 2011, to debunk some claims no reliable source deemed noteworthy at the time, I assume.
"a fringe group which denies the existence of AIDS and/or the role of HIV in causing it". The two links are now dead (they redirect to another page), but the implication that Mercola's site directly supports a claim that (a) Mercola's site has promoted AIDS denialists and (b) AIDS denialists is a fringe group, defies logic.
Mercola has been highly critical of vaccines and vaccination policy, claiming that too many vaccines are given too soon during infancy. He hosts anti-vaccination activists on his website, advocates other measures rather than vaccination in many cases such as using vitamin D rather than a flu shot 15 despite the data not being conclusive 16 and strongly criticizes influenza vaccines.
I have started an RfC on the use of SBM as a source here. Tornado chaser ( talk) 15:37, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
The diff in question is diff. The source in question is Engel, David. "On Reconciling the Histories of Two Chosen Peoples." The American Historical Review 114.4 (2009): 914-929.. Engel writes the following in a footnote -
23 Ibid., 22. The description of Poland as paradisus judaeorum dates to the seventeenth century. Through the time of the partitions, it was generally employed satirically, as a way of mocking the nobledominated regime of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for its alleged favoring of aliens over natives. In some formulations it was coupled with similar descriptions of Poland’s purported beneficence toward other groups. On the other hand, Poland was often called purgatory for the commoners and hell for the peasants. Stanisław Kot, Polska rajem dla Z˙ydo´w, piekłem dla chłopo´w, niebem dla szlachty (Warsaw, 1937), esp. 14–15; Janusz Tazbir, Pan´stwo bez stoso´w: Szkice z dziejo´w tolerancji w Polsce XVI i XVII w. (Warsaw, 1967), 28–56. Kutrzeba and his colleague Franciszek Bujak may have been among the first modern historians to employ the expression seriously as a more or less accurate description of the Jewish situation in old Poland. Bujak, The Jewish Question in Poland (Paris, 1919), 6."
Engel discusses, in the paper, the views of other historians as well. Is it accurate to say in our voice that
Historians, such as David Engel have described the label paradisus iudaeorum ( Latin for " Paradise of the Jews") as a "more or less accurate description of the Jewish situation" in Poland at this time.
I have contended that not, as Engel is describing/attributing the position of Kutrzeba and Bujak, and is not making this assertion in his own voice. Note that the term in question is considered antisemitic by other sources, and Engel elsewhere in his article writes (referring to a modern incarnation of the same narrative, the article contrasting historiography views on the question, prior to suggesting a possible way to a middle ground) that "This narrative has never won substantial acceptance among the Jewish public". Icewhiz ( talk) 08:13, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
"1919 essay, La question juive en Pologne, submitted to the Paris Peace Conference". The sentence prior to footnote 23 (which begins immediately after footnote 22) is:
In the subsequent paragraph Engel discusses the views ofKutrzeba’s conclusion was emphatic: “It has been said that Poland is the paradisus judaeorum. It may not have been a paradise for the Jews, but if one compares Jewish liberties in Poland with the restrictions [prevailing elsewhere] . . . , the exaggeration in this name . . . may not appear excessively great.”23
"several leading historians of the Jews who lived in the Second Polish Republic—Majer Bałaban, Ignacy Schiper, Mojz˙esz Schorr, Rafael Mahler, Emmanuel Ringelblum, and Philip Friedmann"(who disagree with Kutrzeba). Icewhiz ( talk) 12:45, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
In my view, this text is rather straightforward in presenting a group opposed to Kutrzeba's narrative (paradise and all). Icewhiz ( talk) 14:59, 10 December 2018 (UTC)Although several leading historians of the Jews who lived in the Second Polish Republic—Majer Bałaban, Ignacy Schiper, Mojz˙esz Schorr, Rafael Mahler, Emmanuel Ringelblum, and Philip Friedmann (the first three of whom received the Wawelberg fellowship)—did depart in significant ways from the Dubnowian narrative about Poland’s place in Jewish history, the story line that they substituted for it accorded only in part with Askenazy’s desiderata.24 On the one hand, it stressed that Jews and Poles shared a centuries-long common history, during which relations between the two groups were for the most part peaceful, and Jews developed a strong sense of attachment to the country. It also depicted whatever strains crept into those relations as largely of foreign origin. On the other hand, it attributed the long-term stability of Polish Jewish relations not, as Kutrzeba had suggested, to any essential proclivity of the Polish nation for tolerance and liberty, but to mutual advantage stemming from a meshing of interests between Jews and certain classes of Polish society. Jews did well in Poland for a long time, the Polish Jewish historians argued, only because they contributed substantially to the development of the Polish state and economy. However, political and economic changes eventually engendered a situation where, in their view, the benefits of cooperation no longer sufficed to offset tensions born of mounting competition and religious parochialism. Although the dating, description, and etiology of those changes were matters of ongoing debate among them, all agreed that during the period of partitions, Polish society had increasingly fallen prey to imported traditions of anti-Jewish prejudice that were not in keeping with its historic values. Poles might recover those values, they suggested, but only if they took affirmative action to do so. [paragraph break] Thus oppositional Polish and Jewish narratives of the historic relations between the two groups replaced convergent ones .... If it could be demonstrated that Poles were innately tolerant and had always, when not under foreign domination, helped Jews to flourish in their midst, then, Polish spokesmen argued, there was no reason for Jews to oppose monoethnic Polish rule. If, on the other hand, the historical record called Polish tolerance and beneficence into doubt, Jewish leaders possessed a seemingly powerful argument in favor of a multiethnic regime.
Poland never drove them away, never confiscated their property, which has won for her the name of "the Jews' paradise" (paradisus judaeorum). - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 13:12, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
in Poland at this time; the this time referred to is From the founding of the Kingdom of Poland in 1025 through to the early years of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth created in 1569, which is in the preceding sentence. Engel does not make a claim specifically about this time period (either himself or through attributing Kutrzeba & Bujak); but does date the term to the seventeenth century, outside this period. - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 13:46, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
Historians, such as David Engel have described ...to Engel would be a misrepresentation of what Engel writes. In the context Engel is only describing Kutrzeba's and Bujak's thinking. So yes, misattributing a somewhat controversial assertion to Engel would be a BLP violation. Politrukki ( talk) 23:09, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
There is an ongoing issue of editors calling Steve King a racist, or dogmatically calling his comments racist - in violation of BLP. There is nothing wrong with the material itself, but Wikipedia violates BLP when we make value judgements in section headers. JLaw220 ( talk) 01:14, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
PJS v News Group Newspapers ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views): We've run into a problem over whether to name PJS and YMA in the article, with a revert war brewing over this. I've already had my two cents' worth at Talk:PJS_v_News_Group_Newspapers#Identities_of_PJS_and_YMA but would appreciate some additional input on this.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 19:22, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
To be up front, this is not about a BLP: George Dantzig is long dead. However, I'm not sure where else to take this and WP:BLPCAT provides guidance that I believe should apply to all biographies, living or dead: namely, that "Categories regarding religious beliefs (or lack of such) or sexual orientation should not be used unless the subject has publicly self-identified with the belief (or lack of such) or orientation in question, and the subject's beliefs or sexual orientation are relevant to their public life or notability, according to reliable published sources." Avaya1 ( talk · contribs) has, to the contrary, been edit-warring to add the category Category:American Jews (a category of religious belief; we have a separate category hierarchy "...of Jewish descent" for people who are merely ethnically Jewish) to George Dantzig, without attempting to provide reliable sources or in-article text relating to any public self-identification by Dantzig or relevance of this claim to Dantzig's public life or notability. Additional opinions welcome. — David Eppstein ( talk) 21:26, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
Ryan Fry may have WP:undue and/or too much text about a recent event. 96.55.104.236 ( talk) 20:19, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
Can I get some eyes on Jessica Aguirre? An editor with a changing IP address is repeatedly trying to insert trashy content about her appearance. I don't think anyone is watching this page. Zagalejo ^^^ 14:42, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
There is an RfC at RSN [27] on whether sciencebasedmedicine.org is a reliable source and if it is a self published source, given the fact that their are BLP issues with self published sources, this RfC may be of interest to the editors here. Tornado chaser ( talk) 15:40, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
Scott Israel was the sheriff who handled the Parkland shooting, and who became a target in rightwing media shortly thereafter for his advocacy for gun control. Most of his page currently focuses on supposed scandals and incompetencies that he and his department has allegedly been involved in, much of it sourced to non-RS. This series of edits [28] is troubling in particular. I don't have time to look at the page properly right now, but I'm just calling for your attention to what looks like BLP vios at a glance. Snooganssnoogans ( talk) 23:39, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
The IPs used Jim Rash's Instagram post to verify his sexuality. However, I could not find any other source that would help the info comply with WP:BLPCAT. What can be done about the info? I tried removing the info, but somehow another IP reinserted it. George Ho ( talk) 07:41, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
The discussion at Talk:2011 Frankfurt Airport shooting#Lonewolf terrorism may interest the community here (this affects a number of other pages + terrorism categories as well). The BLP perpetrator has been convicted for murder and attempted murder. He was not charged nor convicted for a terrorism related offense. Multiple RSes refer to the event as terrorism or lone wolf terrorism (the event, being an early lonewolf event, is studied quite a bit in academic literature on the subject). The question is whether BLP policy precludes us writing and categorizing the event as terror. Icewhiz ( talk) 09:09, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
This is not a "neutral point of view." I attempted to remove language that is intended to create bias in the mind of the reader, but it was immediately restored. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.104.231.183 ( talk) 00:16, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
John Leslie (TV presenter) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
The article reads that Jonathan Ross divulged the name of the acquaintance that allegedly , according to Ulrika Johnson, raped her. It was NOT Jonathan Ross. It was Matthew Wright on the Channel 5 show the Wright stuff.
You need to amend that as all of these people are still living. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.149.48.43 ( talk) 16:55, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
Grossly excess weight given to details of charges of which the person was cleared. We can say charges were filed, and that he was cleared, but excess details muddy any BLP.
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This article has been placed in Category:Canadian white nationalists despite there being no RS supporting this, and the subject denying it. Could use discussion here, or more opinions at Talk:Gavin McInnes#White nationalist. Kendall-K1 ( talk) 15:38, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
[McInnes] actually leans much further to the right than the Republican Party. His views are closer to a white supremacist's. "I love being white and I think it's something to be very proud of, he said. I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life."- The Edge of Hip: Vice, the Brand" by Vanessa Gigoriadis, New York Times, 28 September 2003
Nope, no reason to think he's a white nationalist AT ALL. -- Calton | Talk 06:13, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
@ JzG: Can you tell us if your comment above can be taken as a support for inclusion? I am staying neutral so if we have 3 support, 1 against I think we would be heading towards a consensus. Personally, I don't want to oppose, but I haven't seen sufficient sourcing to support yet. Seraphim System ( talk) 06:30, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
Oppose inclusion. This fails WP:CATDEF; some sources describe him as perhaps being like a white nationalist, but I haven't found a source that straight up says "Gavin McInnes is a white nationalist"; he is regularly described as far-right or as having far-right views so Category:Far-right politics in Canada is a perfectly valid category, but White Nationalist? Not so much; If one wants to add the category, find enough sources to add "Gavin McInnes is a White Nationalist" in the article - I note that most of the other articles in the category straight up call the person a white nationalist/supremacist etc in the lead sentence, as they should for the category to be applicable. Galobtter ( pingó mió) 06:44, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
Support inclusion - The evidence is quite clear from the sources in both articles that the Proud Boys represent its founder's personal ideology, so adding this category -- which is quite mild -- to the article is justified. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 06:56, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
Support inclusion - Leader of a white nationalist extremist group, and I'm reasonably sure he's Canadian too. PeterTheFourth ( talk) 08:33, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
Oppose inclusion - he disavows white nationalism whenever the topic is addressed, and he isn't associated with any key figures of the movement. Is there an advantage to categorizing people who have made racist statements, as white nationalists (which is a political movement), when they disavow the movement, and are not associated with its advocates? Avaya1 ( talk) 08:39, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
His work is often inflected with a tone of crass, satirical bigotry that leaves him just enough room to declare it all a joke. While Mr. McInnes insists that the Proud Boys are “a normal fraternal organization like the Shriners,” the sentiments that unify its members are often tinged with disrespect for nonwhite culture. Of white men, he once wrote: “We brought roads and infrastructure to India and they are still using them as toilets. Our criminals built nice roads in Australia but aboriginals keep using them as a bed.”Hence the "hipster racist" thing.
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Senator, Narok County, Kenya. You have noted on the page that this text seems to have been written by someone very close to the subject. I would say its probably written by the person himself. It flags up a series of purported achievements, this should be severely edited and scrutinised/fact checked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.31.245.186 ( talk) 14:48, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Baked Alaska (entertainer) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Calton is restoring a Gizmodo article which describes the article subject in a defamatory way. wumbolo ^^^ 07:42, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
The last time I posted a news article... That's an amusing rewrite of history: you posted garbage from Breitbart, The Daily Caller, and The Western Journal and tried to pass them off as "news articles". -- Calton | Talk 23:57, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Article reverted to previous versions even though new edits provide valid sources and additional information about the subject while not removing, but only reordering, previous valid information. Reason for editing document provided by user include unprofessional comments such as: "Whitewashing. Update according to reliable source, not primary puffery". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Evangw29114 ( talk • contribs) 00:32, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Olekina Ledama ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Correction from the previous post, this name appears on Wikipedia not as Ledima Ole Kino, but as above. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.31.245.186 ( talk) 14:52, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
There is an ongoing discussion that may be of interest to the members of this board at [ [29]] ResultingConstant ( talk) 18:09, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Radovan Karadžić ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
It appears to be an error in the biography of Radovan Karadžić:he is supposed to be born in 1945 and went to study Psychiatry in 1960 ... at age 15??? I think he was born in 1935 a t least! there was no way to anticipate studies in the former Yugoslavia and the currricula for psychiatry included the previous doctoral degree in medicine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.49.220.82 ( talk) 18:48, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Some MEK affiliated sources [30] [31] (see the authors) are saying that Abdollah Nouri, once an intelligence service official in Iran, have admitted that 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion were carried out by Iranian government himself, not MEK. I can't find any dependent sources supporting this fringe theory. I think having this challenging material in articles are violations of WP:BLP. Any more insights? -- Mhhossein talk 17:53, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
"noteworthy, relevant, and well documented"and it should be left out if there are not
"multiple reliable third-party sources documenting the allegation or incident".-- Mhhossein talk 17:56, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
"In the case of public figures, there will be a multitude of reliable published sources, and BLPs should simply document what these sources say."That section is talking about BLP privacy and negative material about a subject. In the case you raised, it is simply referring to something that Nouri is alleged to have said. I don't know whether that claim reflects negatively on Nouri, or not. If we were discussing one or two sources saying that Nouri eats babies, the outcome would be clearer. - Mr X 🖋 18:53, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
Amelia Warner Personal Life
There are malicious people continuously changing her personal information. Jamie Dornan and Amelia Warner are the parents to Dulcie and Elva and are expecting their 3rd child in 2019. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carmensandiego62 ( talk • contribs) 23:23, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
George Pell ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
He is listed as a convicted sex offender. This is most offensive, and it would be wise to wait until the outcome of an appeal. He is not a sex offender, but rather the target of a vicious and calculated anti-Church smear campaign witch hunt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.253.195.12 ( talk) 08:15, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
Mittu Chandilya A user on Wikipedia AKS.9955 has been contributing references articles that are newspaper reports that are not fully accurate and not proven in the court of law. It defames the person as nothing has been proved. the user AKS.9955 is in the same industry as the Biographer article and perhaps points to some professional jealousy, he has taken time to particularly target this biography. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.206.10.181 ( talk) 08:11, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Article mentions Amit Singhal was "cleared" of harassment claims, but the references make no mention of this, and I can find no evidence via Google search that he was "cleared". This false statement diminishes the seriousness of the allegations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjnichol ( talk • contribs) 20:52, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Juan Darthés is an Argentine actor. There was a scandal recently, as the actress Thelma Fardin said that he forced her to have sex back in 2009 (she was 16 by then), and started a local version of the Me Too movement (you can check here for more info). I used the phrase "child sexual abuse" to describe it, but user Irn insist to call it a "rape" instead. Being a highly sensible topic, I prefer to ask others about the right term to use.
I also think that Página 12 should not be used as a source. It is a highly controversial newspaper, and there is a better reference with the New York Times anyway. Cambalachero ( talk) 13:01, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
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On this page Objective3000 makes this false statement about a living person, George W. Bush:
"So, Tyson got the quote wrong. A quote suggesting that the President made religious comments that were divisive. But, on other occasions, on the same subject, in the same time period, it is well-documented that Bush made religious comments that were divisive. Basically saying that God told him to kill a lot of people of another religion. Bush made comments to the same effect as those claimed by Tyson. So, what is all this gnashing of teeth about? Why does this belong in an encyclopedia? Objective3000 (talk) 21:10, 28 September 2014 (UTC)"
Here is Tyson's claim. That within a week of 9-11 George Bush attempted "to distinguish we from they."
Bush's actual 9-11 speech was a call for tolerance and inclusion. Exactly the opposite of the xenophobe demagogue Tyson falsely portrayed. Tyson has admitted his account is false and apologized to President Bush.
So far as I know, Bush has never made comments against the general Muslim population. In fact he, his family and members of his administration have repeatedly condemned anti-Muslim rhetoric.
President Bush has condemned Muslim terrorists. This is not remotely the same as condemning the general Muslim population. Objective3000's accusation is false. It is libel against a living person. HopDavid ( talk) 16:18, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Regarding this -
diff - an editor is using an opinion piece in the "right-wing wPolityce.pl news website"
[32] - to state that the BLP subject of the article has "Datner, however, wrote that 200,000 was the total number of Jews who had escaped from the ghettos, of whom about half subsequently died from various causes. Grabowski later admitted in a subsequent interview that Szymon Datner had not made the claim he attributed to him"
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Please take a look at Cindy Hyde-Smith. The article says "They have a daughter, who they sent to Brookhaven Academy, a school that was established to enable white children to attend a school without blacks." I believe this is a WP:BLP violation, and an especially pernicious one as it implicates a non-public figure minor child. The given source says "U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith attended and graduated from a segregation academy ( Lawrence County Academy) that was set up so that white parents could avoid having to send their children to schools with black students" and later says "Years later, Hyde-Smith would send her daughter, Anna-Michael, to Brookhaven Academy." It says nothing about any racial motivation for Hyde-Smith's choice in where to send her daughter to school. In fact, the issue of Hyde-Smith's alma mater being a segregation academy is covered in Hyde-Smith's article in the section about her education. I get that everyone has their undies in a bundle about the Missisippi Senate election, but putting this content in the article about a minor child who likely had no choice about where she attended school (it's quite unlikely that Hyde-Smith herself had any choice about where she attended school either, FWIW) doesn't exactly seem above board. Marquardtika ( talk) 17:21, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
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Arguing over strength of sources, or presentation, etc. is one thing but coatracking? Where she went to school and sent her daughter is biography not coatracking. [2] It is also news that these assertions came up, so we have to decide how to handle that in a NOTNEWS fashion, one way may be to discuss just noting the issue about her life came up depending on sourcing. -- Alanscottwalker ( talk) 20:27, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
The original discussion started claiming this was a BLP for hyde-smiths daughter who was a non-public minor, which is totally false as she graduated in 2017. It's then devolved into accusations about unreliable sources (false), lack of sources (false). It's hard to discuss simultaneously against UNDUE and "passive-aggressive" which are opposites. The article content is sourced and accurate, this quote "Cindy Hyde-Smith sent her daughter to a private school created to help white kids bypass integration" from this source? seems much like the article content. It really seems to be a case of let's censor this because I don't like it! Jacona ( talk) 22:18, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
@ ν, feel free to stalk my edits to see if you can find any evidence to back up your accusation. I rarely bother with current politics - I became involved in this article because I was working on the article of an individual who was murdered by a relative of Hyde-Smith's in 1955 in order to suppress the (presumably republican) black vote. They never were tried, in spite of the murder being in broad daylight in front of the courthouse and scads of eyewitnesses. They are buried in the cemetery of the same church Hyde-Smith now attends. I think these edits are very mild in the light of her family history. Jacona ( talk) 00:27, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
Another thing here; all of this is really related to the campaign - or at least there's no indication of importance beyond being a campaign controversy. Meaning any criticism/controversy over these things should be contained in Cindy Hyde-Smith#Special election campaign, 2018. Galobtter ( pingó mió) 06:58, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
This story has received some additional coverage since yesterday - with mentions on USA Today, CNN, the Washington Post (editorial), and the AP, as well as a response from the Hyde-Smith campaign itself. I think we can make a case for expanding some of the discussion of the controversies in this campaign. Here's what I would suggest:
On November 24, the Jackson Free Press reported that Hyde-Smith had attended Brookhaven Academy, a school that was founded in 1970 by parents who wanted to avoid sending their children to integrated public schools. The paper wrote that Hyde-Smith's education "adds historic context" to her earlier remarks about a "public hanging". cite1, cite2 Hyde-Smith's campaign criticized the report, calling it a personal attack the drew attention from real issues. cite3, cite 4
I would suggest placing this here, right after the paragraph discussing the public hanging remarks. Nblund talk 22:27, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
By the way, I grew up in the South, and my parents were racist, and when desegregation was mandated in 1970, my parents switched their three youngest children to the local private day school (my older brother finished at the public high school; he had only one year to go); they explained that we would get a better education. The private school was excellent, and I blossomed there and had a great education, regardless of my parents' mixed motivations for sending us there. Later, my college best friend teased me that I went to a segregation academy. Maybe it was one -- it was founded in 1957 -- but it was an excellent school and I'm glad I attended it. Many if not most of my teachers were Northerners, and very liberal, and apparently corrupted us, in the eyes of my father LOL. Point is, not every private school in the South is a sinister white-supremacist stronghold, and not every motivation for sending Southern children to private schools is 100% race-based. Softlavender ( talk) 17:31, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
This has drifted pretty far afield. The specific issue is whether it is BLP-compliant to note that Cindy Hyde-Smith attended a segregation academy (that is, an all-white private school founded to defy integration), and later sent her daughter to a similar school. A non-exhaustive list of sources includes the following:
So there are multiple high-quality reliable sources attesting to the fact that Hyde-Smith attended a segregation academy. Some, but not all, of these sources also mention that she sent her daughter to such a school. These sources satisfy the requirements set forth in WP:BLP, so there is no BLP concern with including this information. That Hyde-Smith attended such a school is a fact, and one that reliable sources deem relevant to her biography. It's our job to present relevant, well-sourced facts, and if we can't do that job, for whatever reason, then we need to take a step back. The reader can determine what they think of the fact that Hyde-Smith attended an all-white segregation academy, but we don't get to decide for them by suppressing that relevant, well-sourced fact (and here I'm looking at you, Masem). I don't see the point in continued discussion here, especially since this thread seems to have degenerated into a platform for increasingly bizarre and policy-ignorant claims about the press, white nationalism, and so on. MastCell Talk 19:31, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
Marriages section says he married Sophie de Niverville in 2003, and subsequently suggests he spoke of their divorce "a year earlier" in 2001. Someone with proper information should update this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.151.236.217 ( talk) 09:19, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
At Hell's Kitchen (U.S. season 18) there have been several unsourced claims about contestants regarding ages and names/nicknames. Several editors are supporting claims with dubious references and even resorting to WP:SYNTH, which seems to be a BLP violation. One editor involved in this has used a YouTube source (see here) but when I try to view it I get a mesage that the content is blocked because I am in Australia, not the U.S. Could someone in the U.S. please verify that this source is valid? There was another source added in this edit for "Roe DiLeo" but that times out for me. I'd like to ensure that all of these edits are valid. Thanks. -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 16:07, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
The infobox of this controversial article says "Perpetrators: Congress Party members". I raised a concern about it on the Talk Page thread stating that although there are several reports alleging members of the Congress party as perpetrators, no court of law has convicted The Congress Party for this riot. In fact the legal Enquiry commission has exonerated Congress leaders. Accordingly User:Britmax who agreed with the concern, removed the defamatory piece of information from the infobox.
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Book 2. Quote from book 1 says ..assassination, was followed by pogroms against Sikhs organized by elements within the Congress Party.
. The book 2 notes that few arrested were quickly released on the behest of Congress leaders...Official inquiry known as the Mishra Commission gave a blanket exoneration to Congress (I) leaders... Congress Party leaders have repeatedly and vehemently denied any involvement in the rioting
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I note that these sources are only accusatory neither of these sources claim a conviction. The second source in fact notes that Congress members were exonerated. hence our article infobox should not include this parameter since it is not established.
WP:BLPCRIME states that A living person accused of a crime is presumed innocent until convicted by a court of law. Accusations, investigations and arrests do not amount to a conviction. This defamatory and accusatory content in infobox is now being fiercely supported on the talk page by some editors.
I am posting here for the opinion of neutral editors at BLPN about the content in question and the source. -- DBig Xrayᗙ 16:22, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
An IP has recently piped the text "A. Wyatt Mann" to link to the article Nick Bougas on the page about Ben Garrison (see here). Apparently a Buzzfeed News article seems to strongly imply that Bougas drew a bunch of offensive cartoons under the pseudonym "A. Wyatt Mann" without exactly definitively stating as much. Note also that the article on Bougas now flatly states that he drew many cartoons under this pseudonym as a fact, citing the aforementioned Buzzfeed article as its source. I am concerned that this single source is insufficient to be making these kinds of serious claims about a living person. IntoThinAir ( talk) 01:50, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Matthew Gordon-Banks -- the details of whose name haven't been stable -- is a politician whose article has been contentious for some time, as seen in Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive220#Matthew Banks (2015), Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive256#Matthew Gordon Banks (2017), to a minor degree in Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/BLP issues on British politics articles (2018; related: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive299#Philip Cross, Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 130#User:Philip Cross, Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive983#User:Philip Cross has COI), and again in the forefront in Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive276#Matthew Gordon Banks (2018), its talk page (as recently as this month), and its very recent edit history. As recently as two weeks ago, I'd never heard of the man. (I stepped in when I read of the article at WP:BLPN/Archive276.) It might help if I returned, but right now I lack the time. In view of the recent edit history and recent comments on the talk page, could some disinterested, level-headed people willing to digest the talk page and familiar with BLP-related policy please tackle this? -- Hoary ( talk) 01:35, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
If an allegation or incident is noteworthy, relevant, and well documented, it belongs in the article—even if it is negative and the subject dislikes all mention of it. If you cannot find multiple reliable third-party sources documenting the allegation or incident, leave it out(emphasis per BLP). At the time of the original discussion, there was only one article in a local source that documented the incident, so it was removed. Now the argument is that a local source has published two articles, so therefore, it meets the definition of multiple third-party sources. I disagree with that conclusion, my belief is that multiple third-party sources means sources independent of one another. I'm staying out of it, Banks himself, at one time has edited the article I believe as an IP, had others edit on his behalf, he has left a message on my talk page, and there are several others who insist that the incident remain in the article at all costs. Banks also regularly posts on the talk page as well. Good luck, I'm done with that mess. Isaidnoway (talk) 20:06, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
If you cannot find multiple reliable third-party sources documenting the allegation or incident, leave it out. I am truly flabbergasted that you don't understand this. And why are you only pinging me, I'm not the only editor who has objected and removed this content in the last two years. Isaidnoway (talk) 19:25, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
A user is deleting a sourced statement regarding the end of Greg Goff's tenure as head baseball coach at Alabama, stating it is inaccurate and libelous. Other users (including me) have restored it, stating that it is properly sourced, and requesting a source to contradict the information. We've tried taking it to talk pages, but still seem to be at loggerheads. Can some uninvolved editors take a look and weigh in? Billcasey905 ( talk) 01:17, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
While patrolling RC, I have observed quite a number of edits adding ethnicity or heritage to BLPs, and have also seen many articles where this information is already present.
Do we have a policy or informal consensus of any kind on whether this information is relevant? Are there any special sourcing requirements?
The Uninvited Co., Inc. 17:08, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Multiple sources say Nguyen is training to be an astronaut. An editor has been repeatedly adding that Nguyen "claims to be in training" and "is not a member of any official training class". The editor has also continually added that her Nobel Peace Prize nomination "is contested by the Nobel Peace Prize committee official nomination procedures and dates." CowHouse ( talk) 10:02, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
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A "new user" tag teaming with another to insert material that draws a novel synthesis from a published source in order to say "In a 1993 meeting with a minister for the disabled Simon Wessely claimed that “Benefits can often make [ME] patients worse.”" - this is not in the source, and the article has been the subject of a sustained hate campaign by a minority of activists. Guy ( Help!) 18:42, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
Someone continues to add the name "Soumaya Mekouar" in the list of children. But that is not correct. The ambassador has only one child: "Camil Mekouar"
Could you please ensure that this change does not occur again?
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IsmaelBelkhayat ( talk • contribs) 02:12, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
Josh Hawley ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Josh Hawley's birthplace is currently listed as Lexington, Missouri, but should be listed as Springdale, Arkansas. This violates the Verifiability policy because Lexington, Missouri is not backed up with a citation. Lexington, Missouri as Hawley's birthplace also violates Verifiability because the article's first cited source, Josh Hawley's Worthy Climb | National Review, contradicts the article's information about his birthplace and instead says he was born in Sprindale, Arkansas (top of fourth paragraph). — Preceding unsigned comment added by MallenSchulde ( talk • contribs) 00:27, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
Someone has posted an utterly offensive photo in bio of Mr. Barr. It should be removed immediately. — Preceding unsigned comment added by VerbatimCT ( talk • contribs) 17:36, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
It seems that this individual has been in the news due to a recent arrest. I have removed this material pursuant to WP:BLPCRIME but it is a borderline case.
IPs are adding the accusations to the article in a titilating and unencyclopedic fashion. I'm not going to get involved futher, but I would encourage others to watch the page and clean up the worst of the text.
Uninvited Company 22:39, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Articles being used to attack or promote their subjects, obviously for political reasons.
I have no interest in looking through the background and history of these articles, but my inclination would be to remove large portions of the articles (which I started to do before seeing the scope of the problems), protecting the articles, and notifying all relevant WP:SPA editors. Maybe there are sanctions beyond BLP that apply?
Those are from the the edits of Juanelo1931 ( talk · contribs). I've not looked further. -- Ronz ( talk) 18:18, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
John Roxborough Smith ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Incorrect spelling of middle name in article title (correct spelling is: Roxburgh).
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Unsourced material keeps being added to this article. Subject doesn't appear WP:Notable. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 01:49, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
Over the last year some unreliable and possibly slanderous information has been added to Australian National EL class. The changes are not backed by any reliable source (and nor could I find one) so I suspect they may be a BLP violation. I'm requesting that the article be reverted to Special:Permalink/805627865 and revdel applied to the intervening edits. There has been no other substantial editing activity. Triptothecottage ( talk) 07:34, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
Any admins around who can have a look at this page? Greywin and Simonm223 are in a dispute--Greywin, do not restore those names until this is resolved. Drmies ( talk) 19:32, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
That's not what independent notability means. See also WP:BLP1E. Simonm223 ( talk) 19:48, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
"seriously consider not including material—in any article"- but it does preclude discussion (backed up by sources) on the talk page on the subject of whether to include or not (and implies this should be discussed, considered, in talk). Icewhiz ( talk) 19:42, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Greywin You're wrong that we're going to the wall to protect this person. What people are going to the wall to protect are: 1) Wikipedia. 2) Due process in criminal proceedings. Those are both things your WP:BLPCRIME violations cause risks to. Simonm223 ( talk) 20:03, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Former naturopath Britt Marie Hermes claims to have been converted away from naturopathy after reporting her then boss for importing an unapproved substance to treat cancer. Accordingly, in a couple oif interviews explaining how she came to oppose naturopathy she has mentioned this event and her ex-boss. [13] [14] Her boss was reprimanded by the Arizona Naturopathic Physicians Medical Board and was never charged. To what extent should we cover this in the two articles? Under WP:BLPNAME should we be naming the naturopath in the two articles? - Bilby ( talk) 22:34, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
There is an ongoing RFC which may be of interest to the watchers of this page at Talk:Neil_deGrasse_Tyson#Request_for_comment_(RfC) ResultingConstant ( talk) 00:41, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
it belongs in the article.
allegation belongs in the biography, citing those sources. In any case, the noticeboard here may be interested in building consensus for a particular text. ResultingConstant ( talk) 01:57, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
Could WP:BLPN regulars take a look at this bio? It seems overly concerned with a spat between the subject and another individual, and does little to establish notability. 86.133.149.178 ( talk) 02:17, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
The photograph of the tennis player on the Cliff Richey bio page is not Cliff Richey. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8801:F800:F500:F5E2:E2D6:6865:232C ( talk) 23:28, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
Michael Seed Michael Seed ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) I removed references to people in lists on this subject s they seemed to be false. Much of the article is true but with unreliable sources used but some seems false on purpose.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a02:c7f:383c:ec00:5ba:222:8c63:f09f ( talk) 14:33, December 11, 2018 (UTC)
Can someone take a look at the linked article and the IP's contributions to it? They seem NPOV and done by a connected contributor, but I don't actually know much about the guy so they could possibly be correcting an existing bias in the article. Not sure here, figured we could use a few extra sets of eyes on this. cymru.lass ( talk • contribs) 20:30, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
This is just a heads-up so people know what they're seeing... we've attracted a chap in Portugal with a rather unusual MO and access to a hefty range of IP addresses, who is active across a number of BLP articles. His standard practice is to add a mass of unsourced genealogical information (usually relating to the European ancestry of American individuals) and to expand the place of birth location to include every conceivable level of geolocation. He will edit war (no edit summaries or discussion) using a variety of (usually Vodaphone) IPs to keep this information in the article. A fairly standard example showing both behaviours is this. A smattering of the articles affected so far:
There are many more, however. I'm posting this so that people are aware of this user; given that he has access through his ISP to a wide pool of IPs and seems fairly persistent, affected pages should probably be raised at RFPP if more than one revert is needed. Yunshui 雲 水 08:39, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
At Joe Mercola many of Mercola's views are cited to his own website, followed by statements debunking them sourced to RS. I didn't think all this self sourcing was how wikipedia is supposed to be written(even with the debunking statements after), so I started removing this [17], with plans to add secondary sourced material as I found it. My content removal may have been too aggressive, and was mistaken for whitewashing and reverted by User:JzG [18] I have since added some snopes sources and an SBM article, but I don't want to turn the article into a copy of snopes, and i cant find that many sources debunking mercola. I would like to add more from SBM, but am concerned about WP:BLPSPS, there seems to be some consensus that SBM is not an SPS, but if I remember correctly someone suggested that SBM used to be an SPS so what about their older articles? and what about articles on SBM that are written by Gorski himself? Thanks for any advice. Tornado chaser ( talk) 00:10, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
The article is full of synthesis and original research. It lists a number of his views, then rebuts them with scientific sources that do not mention Mercola. It also provides a list of his "controversial" views, which is sourced to his writing, but no source that they are controversial. A better approach would be to use reliable secondary sources about Mercola, explaining his views and the degree to which they differ from orthodox views. TFD ( talk) 01:27, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
"Dr. Gorski must emphasize that the opinions expressed in his posts on SBM are his and his alone and that all blog posts for SBM and elsewhere are written during his own time during evenings and weekends."Case closed? Politrukki ( talk) 18:05, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
claiming manifestations of AIDS (including opportunistic infections and death) may be the result of "psychological stress" brought on by the belief that HIV is harmful) that Tornado chaser removed [20]. The original version was added in 2011, to debunk some claims no reliable source deemed noteworthy at the time, I assume.
"a fringe group which denies the existence of AIDS and/or the role of HIV in causing it". The two links are now dead (they redirect to another page), but the implication that Mercola's site directly supports a claim that (a) Mercola's site has promoted AIDS denialists and (b) AIDS denialists is a fringe group, defies logic.
Mercola has been highly critical of vaccines and vaccination policy, claiming that too many vaccines are given too soon during infancy. He hosts anti-vaccination activists on his website, advocates other measures rather than vaccination in many cases such as using vitamin D rather than a flu shot 15 despite the data not being conclusive 16 and strongly criticizes influenza vaccines.
I have started an RfC on the use of SBM as a source here. Tornado chaser ( talk) 15:37, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
The diff in question is diff. The source in question is Engel, David. "On Reconciling the Histories of Two Chosen Peoples." The American Historical Review 114.4 (2009): 914-929.. Engel writes the following in a footnote -
23 Ibid., 22. The description of Poland as paradisus judaeorum dates to the seventeenth century. Through the time of the partitions, it was generally employed satirically, as a way of mocking the nobledominated regime of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for its alleged favoring of aliens over natives. In some formulations it was coupled with similar descriptions of Poland’s purported beneficence toward other groups. On the other hand, Poland was often called purgatory for the commoners and hell for the peasants. Stanisław Kot, Polska rajem dla Z˙ydo´w, piekłem dla chłopo´w, niebem dla szlachty (Warsaw, 1937), esp. 14–15; Janusz Tazbir, Pan´stwo bez stoso´w: Szkice z dziejo´w tolerancji w Polsce XVI i XVII w. (Warsaw, 1967), 28–56. Kutrzeba and his colleague Franciszek Bujak may have been among the first modern historians to employ the expression seriously as a more or less accurate description of the Jewish situation in old Poland. Bujak, The Jewish Question in Poland (Paris, 1919), 6."
Engel discusses, in the paper, the views of other historians as well. Is it accurate to say in our voice that
Historians, such as David Engel have described the label paradisus iudaeorum ( Latin for " Paradise of the Jews") as a "more or less accurate description of the Jewish situation" in Poland at this time.
I have contended that not, as Engel is describing/attributing the position of Kutrzeba and Bujak, and is not making this assertion in his own voice. Note that the term in question is considered antisemitic by other sources, and Engel elsewhere in his article writes (referring to a modern incarnation of the same narrative, the article contrasting historiography views on the question, prior to suggesting a possible way to a middle ground) that "This narrative has never won substantial acceptance among the Jewish public". Icewhiz ( talk) 08:13, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
"1919 essay, La question juive en Pologne, submitted to the Paris Peace Conference". The sentence prior to footnote 23 (which begins immediately after footnote 22) is:
In the subsequent paragraph Engel discusses the views ofKutrzeba’s conclusion was emphatic: “It has been said that Poland is the paradisus judaeorum. It may not have been a paradise for the Jews, but if one compares Jewish liberties in Poland with the restrictions [prevailing elsewhere] . . . , the exaggeration in this name . . . may not appear excessively great.”23
"several leading historians of the Jews who lived in the Second Polish Republic—Majer Bałaban, Ignacy Schiper, Mojz˙esz Schorr, Rafael Mahler, Emmanuel Ringelblum, and Philip Friedmann"(who disagree with Kutrzeba). Icewhiz ( talk) 12:45, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
In my view, this text is rather straightforward in presenting a group opposed to Kutrzeba's narrative (paradise and all). Icewhiz ( talk) 14:59, 10 December 2018 (UTC)Although several leading historians of the Jews who lived in the Second Polish Republic—Majer Bałaban, Ignacy Schiper, Mojz˙esz Schorr, Rafael Mahler, Emmanuel Ringelblum, and Philip Friedmann (the first three of whom received the Wawelberg fellowship)—did depart in significant ways from the Dubnowian narrative about Poland’s place in Jewish history, the story line that they substituted for it accorded only in part with Askenazy’s desiderata.24 On the one hand, it stressed that Jews and Poles shared a centuries-long common history, during which relations between the two groups were for the most part peaceful, and Jews developed a strong sense of attachment to the country. It also depicted whatever strains crept into those relations as largely of foreign origin. On the other hand, it attributed the long-term stability of Polish Jewish relations not, as Kutrzeba had suggested, to any essential proclivity of the Polish nation for tolerance and liberty, but to mutual advantage stemming from a meshing of interests between Jews and certain classes of Polish society. Jews did well in Poland for a long time, the Polish Jewish historians argued, only because they contributed substantially to the development of the Polish state and economy. However, political and economic changes eventually engendered a situation where, in their view, the benefits of cooperation no longer sufficed to offset tensions born of mounting competition and religious parochialism. Although the dating, description, and etiology of those changes were matters of ongoing debate among them, all agreed that during the period of partitions, Polish society had increasingly fallen prey to imported traditions of anti-Jewish prejudice that were not in keeping with its historic values. Poles might recover those values, they suggested, but only if they took affirmative action to do so. [paragraph break] Thus oppositional Polish and Jewish narratives of the historic relations between the two groups replaced convergent ones .... If it could be demonstrated that Poles were innately tolerant and had always, when not under foreign domination, helped Jews to flourish in their midst, then, Polish spokesmen argued, there was no reason for Jews to oppose monoethnic Polish rule. If, on the other hand, the historical record called Polish tolerance and beneficence into doubt, Jewish leaders possessed a seemingly powerful argument in favor of a multiethnic regime.
Poland never drove them away, never confiscated their property, which has won for her the name of "the Jews' paradise" (paradisus judaeorum). - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 13:12, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
in Poland at this time; the this time referred to is From the founding of the Kingdom of Poland in 1025 through to the early years of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth created in 1569, which is in the preceding sentence. Engel does not make a claim specifically about this time period (either himself or through attributing Kutrzeba & Bujak); but does date the term to the seventeenth century, outside this period. - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 13:46, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
Historians, such as David Engel have described ...to Engel would be a misrepresentation of what Engel writes. In the context Engel is only describing Kutrzeba's and Bujak's thinking. So yes, misattributing a somewhat controversial assertion to Engel would be a BLP violation. Politrukki ( talk) 23:09, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
There is an ongoing issue of editors calling Steve King a racist, or dogmatically calling his comments racist - in violation of BLP. There is nothing wrong with the material itself, but Wikipedia violates BLP when we make value judgements in section headers. JLaw220 ( talk) 01:14, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
PJS v News Group Newspapers ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views): We've run into a problem over whether to name PJS and YMA in the article, with a revert war brewing over this. I've already had my two cents' worth at Talk:PJS_v_News_Group_Newspapers#Identities_of_PJS_and_YMA but would appreciate some additional input on this.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 19:22, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
To be up front, this is not about a BLP: George Dantzig is long dead. However, I'm not sure where else to take this and WP:BLPCAT provides guidance that I believe should apply to all biographies, living or dead: namely, that "Categories regarding religious beliefs (or lack of such) or sexual orientation should not be used unless the subject has publicly self-identified with the belief (or lack of such) or orientation in question, and the subject's beliefs or sexual orientation are relevant to their public life or notability, according to reliable published sources." Avaya1 ( talk · contribs) has, to the contrary, been edit-warring to add the category Category:American Jews (a category of religious belief; we have a separate category hierarchy "...of Jewish descent" for people who are merely ethnically Jewish) to George Dantzig, without attempting to provide reliable sources or in-article text relating to any public self-identification by Dantzig or relevance of this claim to Dantzig's public life or notability. Additional opinions welcome. — David Eppstein ( talk) 21:26, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
Ryan Fry may have WP:undue and/or too much text about a recent event. 96.55.104.236 ( talk) 20:19, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
Can I get some eyes on Jessica Aguirre? An editor with a changing IP address is repeatedly trying to insert trashy content about her appearance. I don't think anyone is watching this page. Zagalejo ^^^ 14:42, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
There is an RfC at RSN [27] on whether sciencebasedmedicine.org is a reliable source and if it is a self published source, given the fact that their are BLP issues with self published sources, this RfC may be of interest to the editors here. Tornado chaser ( talk) 15:40, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
Scott Israel was the sheriff who handled the Parkland shooting, and who became a target in rightwing media shortly thereafter for his advocacy for gun control. Most of his page currently focuses on supposed scandals and incompetencies that he and his department has allegedly been involved in, much of it sourced to non-RS. This series of edits [28] is troubling in particular. I don't have time to look at the page properly right now, but I'm just calling for your attention to what looks like BLP vios at a glance. Snooganssnoogans ( talk) 23:39, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
The IPs used Jim Rash's Instagram post to verify his sexuality. However, I could not find any other source that would help the info comply with WP:BLPCAT. What can be done about the info? I tried removing the info, but somehow another IP reinserted it. George Ho ( talk) 07:41, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
The discussion at Talk:2011 Frankfurt Airport shooting#Lonewolf terrorism may interest the community here (this affects a number of other pages + terrorism categories as well). The BLP perpetrator has been convicted for murder and attempted murder. He was not charged nor convicted for a terrorism related offense. Multiple RSes refer to the event as terrorism or lone wolf terrorism (the event, being an early lonewolf event, is studied quite a bit in academic literature on the subject). The question is whether BLP policy precludes us writing and categorizing the event as terror. Icewhiz ( talk) 09:09, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
This is not a "neutral point of view." I attempted to remove language that is intended to create bias in the mind of the reader, but it was immediately restored. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.104.231.183 ( talk) 00:16, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
John Leslie (TV presenter) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
The article reads that Jonathan Ross divulged the name of the acquaintance that allegedly , according to Ulrika Johnson, raped her. It was NOT Jonathan Ross. It was Matthew Wright on the Channel 5 show the Wright stuff.
You need to amend that as all of these people are still living. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.149.48.43 ( talk) 16:55, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
Grossly excess weight given to details of charges of which the person was cleared. We can say charges were filed, and that he was cleared, but excess details muddy any BLP.
Collect (
talk) 16:48, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
The following discussion 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.
This article has been placed in Category:Canadian white nationalists despite there being no RS supporting this, and the subject denying it. Could use discussion here, or more opinions at Talk:Gavin McInnes#White nationalist. Kendall-K1 ( talk) 15:38, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
[McInnes] actually leans much further to the right than the Republican Party. His views are closer to a white supremacist's. "I love being white and I think it's something to be very proud of, he said. I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life."- The Edge of Hip: Vice, the Brand" by Vanessa Gigoriadis, New York Times, 28 September 2003
Nope, no reason to think he's a white nationalist AT ALL. -- Calton | Talk 06:13, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
@ JzG: Can you tell us if your comment above can be taken as a support for inclusion? I am staying neutral so if we have 3 support, 1 against I think we would be heading towards a consensus. Personally, I don't want to oppose, but I haven't seen sufficient sourcing to support yet. Seraphim System ( talk) 06:30, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
Oppose inclusion. This fails WP:CATDEF; some sources describe him as perhaps being like a white nationalist, but I haven't found a source that straight up says "Gavin McInnes is a white nationalist"; he is regularly described as far-right or as having far-right views so Category:Far-right politics in Canada is a perfectly valid category, but White Nationalist? Not so much; If one wants to add the category, find enough sources to add "Gavin McInnes is a White Nationalist" in the article - I note that most of the other articles in the category straight up call the person a white nationalist/supremacist etc in the lead sentence, as they should for the category to be applicable. Galobtter ( pingó mió) 06:44, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
Support inclusion - The evidence is quite clear from the sources in both articles that the Proud Boys represent its founder's personal ideology, so adding this category -- which is quite mild -- to the article is justified. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 06:56, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
Support inclusion - Leader of a white nationalist extremist group, and I'm reasonably sure he's Canadian too. PeterTheFourth ( talk) 08:33, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
Oppose inclusion - he disavows white nationalism whenever the topic is addressed, and he isn't associated with any key figures of the movement. Is there an advantage to categorizing people who have made racist statements, as white nationalists (which is a political movement), when they disavow the movement, and are not associated with its advocates? Avaya1 ( talk) 08:39, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
His work is often inflected with a tone of crass, satirical bigotry that leaves him just enough room to declare it all a joke. While Mr. McInnes insists that the Proud Boys are “a normal fraternal organization like the Shriners,” the sentiments that unify its members are often tinged with disrespect for nonwhite culture. Of white men, he once wrote: “We brought roads and infrastructure to India and they are still using them as toilets. Our criminals built nice roads in Australia but aboriginals keep using them as a bed.”Hence the "hipster racist" thing.
References
-- Jytdog ( talk) 12:26, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
Senator, Narok County, Kenya. You have noted on the page that this text seems to have been written by someone very close to the subject. I would say its probably written by the person himself. It flags up a series of purported achievements, this should be severely edited and scrutinised/fact checked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.31.245.186 ( talk) 14:48, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Baked Alaska (entertainer) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Calton is restoring a Gizmodo article which describes the article subject in a defamatory way. wumbolo ^^^ 07:42, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
The last time I posted a news article... That's an amusing rewrite of history: you posted garbage from Breitbart, The Daily Caller, and The Western Journal and tried to pass them off as "news articles". -- Calton | Talk 23:57, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Article reverted to previous versions even though new edits provide valid sources and additional information about the subject while not removing, but only reordering, previous valid information. Reason for editing document provided by user include unprofessional comments such as: "Whitewashing. Update according to reliable source, not primary puffery". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Evangw29114 ( talk • contribs) 00:32, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Olekina Ledama ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Correction from the previous post, this name appears on Wikipedia not as Ledima Ole Kino, but as above. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.31.245.186 ( talk) 14:52, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
There is an ongoing discussion that may be of interest to the members of this board at [ [29]] ResultingConstant ( talk) 18:09, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Radovan Karadžić ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
It appears to be an error in the biography of Radovan Karadžić:he is supposed to be born in 1945 and went to study Psychiatry in 1960 ... at age 15??? I think he was born in 1935 a t least! there was no way to anticipate studies in the former Yugoslavia and the currricula for psychiatry included the previous doctoral degree in medicine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.49.220.82 ( talk) 18:48, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Some MEK affiliated sources [30] [31] (see the authors) are saying that Abdollah Nouri, once an intelligence service official in Iran, have admitted that 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion were carried out by Iranian government himself, not MEK. I can't find any dependent sources supporting this fringe theory. I think having this challenging material in articles are violations of WP:BLP. Any more insights? -- Mhhossein talk 17:53, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
"noteworthy, relevant, and well documented"and it should be left out if there are not
"multiple reliable third-party sources documenting the allegation or incident".-- Mhhossein talk 17:56, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
"In the case of public figures, there will be a multitude of reliable published sources, and BLPs should simply document what these sources say."That section is talking about BLP privacy and negative material about a subject. In the case you raised, it is simply referring to something that Nouri is alleged to have said. I don't know whether that claim reflects negatively on Nouri, or not. If we were discussing one or two sources saying that Nouri eats babies, the outcome would be clearer. - Mr X 🖋 18:53, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
Amelia Warner Personal Life
There are malicious people continuously changing her personal information. Jamie Dornan and Amelia Warner are the parents to Dulcie and Elva and are expecting their 3rd child in 2019. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carmensandiego62 ( talk • contribs) 23:23, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
George Pell ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
He is listed as a convicted sex offender. This is most offensive, and it would be wise to wait until the outcome of an appeal. He is not a sex offender, but rather the target of a vicious and calculated anti-Church smear campaign witch hunt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.253.195.12 ( talk) 08:15, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
Mittu Chandilya A user on Wikipedia AKS.9955 has been contributing references articles that are newspaper reports that are not fully accurate and not proven in the court of law. It defames the person as nothing has been proved. the user AKS.9955 is in the same industry as the Biographer article and perhaps points to some professional jealousy, he has taken time to particularly target this biography. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.206.10.181 ( talk) 08:11, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Article mentions Amit Singhal was "cleared" of harassment claims, but the references make no mention of this, and I can find no evidence via Google search that he was "cleared". This false statement diminishes the seriousness of the allegations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjnichol ( talk • contribs) 20:52, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Juan Darthés is an Argentine actor. There was a scandal recently, as the actress Thelma Fardin said that he forced her to have sex back in 2009 (she was 16 by then), and started a local version of the Me Too movement (you can check here for more info). I used the phrase "child sexual abuse" to describe it, but user Irn insist to call it a "rape" instead. Being a highly sensible topic, I prefer to ask others about the right term to use.
I also think that Página 12 should not be used as a source. It is a highly controversial newspaper, and there is a better reference with the New York Times anyway. Cambalachero ( talk) 13:01, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Talk:Neil_deGrasse_Tyson/Archive_7
On this page Objective3000 makes this false statement about a living person, George W. Bush:
"So, Tyson got the quote wrong. A quote suggesting that the President made religious comments that were divisive. But, on other occasions, on the same subject, in the same time period, it is well-documented that Bush made religious comments that were divisive. Basically saying that God told him to kill a lot of people of another religion. Bush made comments to the same effect as those claimed by Tyson. So, what is all this gnashing of teeth about? Why does this belong in an encyclopedia? Objective3000 (talk) 21:10, 28 September 2014 (UTC)"
Here is Tyson's claim. That within a week of 9-11 George Bush attempted "to distinguish we from they."
Bush's actual 9-11 speech was a call for tolerance and inclusion. Exactly the opposite of the xenophobe demagogue Tyson falsely portrayed. Tyson has admitted his account is false and apologized to President Bush.
So far as I know, Bush has never made comments against the general Muslim population. In fact he, his family and members of his administration have repeatedly condemned anti-Muslim rhetoric.
President Bush has condemned Muslim terrorists. This is not remotely the same as condemning the general Muslim population. Objective3000's accusation is false. It is libel against a living person. HopDavid ( talk) 16:18, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Regarding this -
diff - an editor is using an opinion piece in the "right-wing wPolityce.pl news website"
[32] - to state that the BLP subject of the article has "Datner, however, wrote that 200,000 was the total number of Jews who had escaped from the ghettos, of whom about half subsequently died from various causes. Grabowski later admitted in a subsequent interview that Szymon Datner had not made the claim he attributed to him"
. Outside input requested.
Icewhiz (
talk) 07:27, 21 December 2018 (UTC)