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Full of BLP and NPOV vio's, unencyclopedic language and unreliable sources. I removed a couple. &nbsp; Much of article reads like it was copied from a blog post or tabloid, and lack of proof of Native ancestry (and/or or not being enrolled in a tribe) is repeatedly conflated with lying. --] <sup>]</sup> • <sub>(])]</sub> 18:48, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
:... and the two diffs above got reverted , restoring some really poor prose and sources. This is a very sensitive topic area and I don't want to ] anyone, but clearly the article needs more experienced editorial eyes and existing editors need to review ] (and hopefully realize the difference between editing an encyclopedia and human rights advocacy). --] <sup>]</sup> • <sub>(])]</sub> 11:04, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
::Unless a published '''reliable''' source specifically describes the person as a "pretendian", they should not be on that notable examples list at all. BLP is clear on this - any contentious material about a living person that is unsourced or poorly sourced should be removed immediately.]] 12:55, 30 December 2024 (UTC)


:One problem is that while the article is about people who falsely claimed Native American heritage, its title is from a pejorative slang term, which it begins by defining. Perhaps a change of title along with moving information about the term Pretendian further down would help.
:Listing any notable people who have pretended to have native heritage is a recipe for imbalance and unwieldy length. Instead, we should find sources specifically about the topic to determine which persons are significant to the topic. It's more important to understand why this happens, how frequent it is and what damage it causes than to provide a hit list of perpetrators.
:] (]) 15:20, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
::{{tq|1=It's more important to understand why this happens, how frequent it is and what damage it causes than to provide a hit list of perpetrators.}} Well said! ]&nbsp;] 15:29, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
:*The title strikes me as violating ]; I'm skeptical that the term is common enough to pass ] for the phenomenon. If the article is going to cover the phenomenon and not the neologism (and currently, most sources in it don't use the term), it needs to be renamed to a descriptive title. The hard part is coming up with one. --] (]) 16:19, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
A lengthy requested move discussion already occurred and nothing has changed with the term to warrant a title change in the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Pretendian#Requested_move_21_December_2021 ] <sub>]</sub> 16:36, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
*It seems fairly evident that the neologism and the phenomenon are both notable, but we shouldn't be covering the phenomenon under the neologism: I don't see evidence that "pretendian" is the dominant descriptive term even for high-profile cases of falsely claiming native ancestry. And it goes without saying that an absence of evidence of native ancestry is insufficient to list an individual on that page. ] (]) 17:25, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
::I mean, if the article is titled "Pretendian", the ''only'' sources that could justify putting someone on the page is a source using the term "Pretendian" specifically. It's a sufficiently emotive neologism that we can't really ] someone into that category - any source that doesn't use the word "Pretendian" is useless. If we want a list of BLPs who fall under the broader concept, we would need a separate article for that; we can't label people with a neologism without a specific source using the term. --] (]) 16:13, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
:That discussion is three years old, but more importantly, it doesn't address the ] / ] issue. We can have an article on a neologism, absolutely; we ''cannot'' label individuals with a negative neologism unless we have a source using ''that precise word'' to refer to them. Any living person named in that article must have at least one high-quality source calling them a "Pretendian", using that exact word. Anyone who doesn't have that source backing up the fact that they have been called a "Pretendian", specifically, needs to be removed immediately until / unless that source is found - sources that use other words are useless (and ] / ] in context.) --] (]) 16:20, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
::The term "pretendian" is used frequently in news sources (some Canadian news outlets have dedicated reporters on a dedicated "pretendian beat". The term is used in academia (, , to weed out the Spanish-language discussions). ''Indigenous identity fraud'' is used but not nearly as often. If you want to suggest a name change, the talk page of ] would be the place to do it. ] (]) 16:48, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
:::In order for a BLP to be included in the notables examples list though, the derogatory term "pretendian" needs to be used frequently and widely published in high-quality reliable sources describing that individual as such, in order for the BLP to be included in that section per BLP and LABEL.]] 18:45, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
::::I agree with Isaidnoway, Aquillion and others. It's one thing to have an article on the concept and under that name. That might very well be justified if there are sufficient sources referring to it. However it's another to list living persons as pretendians. That needs sufficient sources establishing it's a common enough term used to describe this person. These sources needs to clearly use the term and not simply say other things such as the person has claimed Native American ancestry but it appears to be false. Likewise in others on the person, it's fine to mention controversies over any claims, but they should not be called or categorised as pretendians without sources. ] (]) 07:54, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
:::It's not a matter of what the article is named; the problem is ]. For an emotive, negative term like "pretendian", we need, at the absolute bare minimum, at least one source actually describing someone as such ''using that precise word''. Going "well these sources accusing them of indigenous identity fraud are essentially the same thing" is ]; in other contexts it might not be enough to worry about but in the context of applying a highly emotive label to a living person it's unacceptable. We can have an article on the term, but we can't use it as the general list for people accused of {{tq|indigenous identity fraud}} because of that issue; all we can list there are people called "pretendian" ''specifically'', using that exact word. --] (]) 15:02, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
::::That's valid. Some people have been described as "pretendians" in published, secondary sources. I'd be fine with a separate list for Indigenous identity fraud since that's a more neutral descriptive term that is increasingly being used in scholarly writing. I've been slammed IRL but can find citations in the near future. ] (]) 15:27, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::I've had a read of the Pretendians Talk page, having previously raised some concerns re BLP sourcing, and I share the concerns that the term 'Pretendian' is being used as a neutral descriptor. It's clear from the various discussions on the Talk page that it is a contentious term. I would also be in favour of moving some of the content to a list named something akin to 'Indigenous Identity Fraud' and reframing the Pretendians page as an explanation of the neologism.
:::::I'm concerned about some of these BLP issues being raised previously on the Talk page and dismissed in each case - e.g. ], ] and ]. It looks to me that this page may have multiple BLP violations that need further attention. ] (]) 09:24, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
:This is a complicated issue (especially from a BLP perspective) and it seems like a lot of the long form sources note just how complicated an issue this is. I think that others may be right in saying that there may be multiple overlapping notable and perhaps less notable topics here which can be organized in a number of ways. ] (]) 20:34, 31 December 2024 (UTC)


== Poorly sourced Russian spies/ex-spies poisoning claim of Bashar al-Assad ==
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/3187/P-rez-Eddie-Alberto-1957-Political-Leader.html


{{la|Bashar al-Assad}} BLP attention is needed. {{diff|Talk:Bashar al-Assad|1267015498|1266549621|On the talk page}} I have warned about the Russian spies'/ex-spies' Telegram claim of Bashar al-Assad being poisoned being too poorly sourced. Probably because of al-Assad's as a fugitive wanted for ] and as an ex-dictator, few people seem to be bothered with leaving the rumour in place, despite the low quality of the sourcing that all point to a viral rumour based on the ''General SVR'' ] channel. The ]ly "may have been" and "it was reported that" seem to be seen as sufficient to justify propagating the rumour, without attribution to ''General SVR'' as the source of the claim. After half a day, none of the more regular mainstream media sources appear to have said anything about this, including independent reliable Russian sources such as '']'' and '']''. Currently there are two sentences with the rumour (one in the lead, one in the body of the article). Diffs:
http://www.hartford.gov/Government/mayor/biography.asp
* Adding the rumour:
** {{diff|Bashar al-Assad|prev|1266808883|08:50, 2 January 2025}} by {{u|BasselHarfouch}} source = ]
** {{diff|Bashar al-Assad|prev|1266896530|18:49, 2 January 2025}} by {{u|Bri}} source = ]
** {{diff|Bashar al-Assad|prev|1266975208|02:04, 3 January 2025}} by {{u|Richie1509}} source = ]
** {{diff|Bashar al-Assad|prev|1266997014|04:24, 3 January 2025}} by {{u|Geraldshields11}} source = ]
* Removing individual instances of the rumour:
** {{diff|Bashar al-Assad|prev|1266976981|02:14, 3 January 2025}} by me (I didn't realise that other occurrences remained)
** {{diff|Bashar al-Assad|prev|1266998539|04:33, 3 January 2025}} by {{u|Nikkimaria}}
] (]) 13:32, 3 January 2025 (UTC)


:I see, thanks for letting me know about it. ] (]) 13:40, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
https://www.cpbn.org/program/where-we-live/episode/mayor-eddie-perez
::See also: ] from the same source. ] (]) 17:47, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
:Thank you for clearing up this point, i was not aware of it. I will be careful in the future ] (]) 07:24, 5 January 2025 (UTC)


:::Dear {{ping|Boud}} Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I understand how important it is to maintain high standards for sourcing on Misplaced Pages. When I added the reference to Newsweek, I did so in good faith, as I recall it being a respected publication during my upbringing. I wasn't aware that the community's perception of the source has shifted over time, and I appreciate you pointing this out. If we had talked about it first, I would have gladly reverted it myself. Collaboration and communication are key to building a better encyclopedia, and I value the chance to learn and improve. Thank you again for bringing this to my attention, and I'll be more careful about vetting sources in the future. Please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help address this matter. ] (]) 17:27, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/rankings/influential_hispanics/2007/9/26/the_stars_align_the_100_most.htm
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== Joe Manchin ==
: You humans are always meddling with our plans! Outputting data, please wait...
:* These are your three edits to the article:
:* These never contained any of the sources above, and actually removed source,
:* You made claims such as:
::* ''"Mayor Perez lives the American Dream everyday and wants to make that dream a reality for all residents of the Capital City."'' and
::* ''"a loving family is the foundation for this effective leader"''
:* Cluebot and Smackbot might be fairly primitive, but I am a very advanced bot that can detect blatant ]. If you'd like to improve the article, you can interact with my chat interface at ], and we can work together to build a neutral article. --POWERING DOWN-- *BEEEEEeeeewooop...* --] <font size="-2">(]/])</font> 16:02, 26 October 2008 (UTC)


Today we have an unnecessary edit war on BLP outgoing Sen. ] (and perhaps many other articles this morning) about the addition of infobox data which is factually incorrect at the time of insertion (], ]). Nobody is arguing the data, just the timing of the edit. While ] is one person jumping the gun, they are a longtime contributor here. Their position should be taken in good faith, IMHO. Also in my opinion, these edits are technically BLP violations because they impart incorrect information. ], such clear BLP violations {{tq|must be '''removed immediately and without waiting for discussion'''}} (bolding from the original) by ANY editor. This sort of thing might lead to an edit war in which ''everybody'' is trying to do the right thing. Note: the page was correctly edited for the change; one click would have changed it at the proper time of transition.
:* This is the continuing problem with this article. My changes included portions of all the links referenced above. However, facts and reality aside, libelous statements continue to be posted not because any of the bots or humans have a clue about the content, they just need someone to follow their process to get to a "neutral article". Folks if you can source outrageous claims, do so, if not give it up. Don't defend the libel and slander of someone else because it was there six months ago. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 01:06, 27 October 2008 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:1. Does this sort of thing happen every opening of congress?
:* Here is another link that helped him win re-election in 2007 <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 01:45, 27 October 2008 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:2. Isn't this a potential future problem for BLPN, since edit wars on this are built-in to the apparent excitement of awaiting the actual moment of transition?
:3. I'm inclined towards timed page protection, but page protection is not normally ]. literally ''under attack'' for BLP violations. If we know this is common for transitions of administration, isn't this an exception?
While this noticeboard doesn't normally discuss policy, should we be aware of such disruption in advance? Making it harder for '']'' editors like Therequiembellishere who feel... Well, I'll let them make their own affirmative position here if they wish. ] (]) 14:34, 3 January 2025 (UTC)


Page protections is the only way. IMHO, most editors who do these premature changes every two years, don't actually realize it's too early. They seem to assume once mid-night occurs, start updating. ] (]) 15:24, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
I have continued this discussion on ] --] <font size="-2">(]/])</font> 14:24, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
:I raise this issue not to cause a problem today. I'm not trying to unduly embarrass any editor for taking a position I don't agree with. On the other hand, we have established BLP policy the ''hard way'' through sometimes brutal disagreements about how to carefully calibrate opposing positions based on good faith argument. I trust the BLP policy because we earned it. We don't need to re-learn these lessons. But we could discuss ''how to proceed next time''. ] (]) 15:29, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
::In agreement. ] (]) 15:31, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
::Under policy, it would be within the responsibility of any editor to revert these edits and report the editor to this board. But for my starting this conversation, it would be within my remit to revert the edits, fully protect the page and warn Therequiembellishere (and others). I haven't done that. I want the discussion about what to do next time. ] (]) 15:34, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
:::I understand, this is for the next time around when terms end & begin. PS - I should note, that the premature changes in the BLPs tend to have a ripple effect on related pages. ] (]) 15:41, 3 January 2025 (UTC)


I've said everything I want on this on Manchin's talk. It's just a lot of pedantry by a few editors with obsessive fealty and exactitude that doesn't meaningfully help anything or anyone, least of all a casual reader. ] (]) 16:33, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
== Alexander Litvinenko/Vladimir Putin ==


:Verifiability is not "pedantry". Members aren't sworn in until noon EST, correct? &ndash;&nbsp;]&nbsp;(]) 16:36, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
{{La|Alexander Litvinenko}} - in this article there is the section, ]. This is not BLP of Litvinenko, but is possibly BLP of Vladimir Putin, and it is my understanding that BLP information of any living person is not allowed in any article. Some background is needed here. In 2006, whilst in public view in the Kremlin grounds. On 5 July 2006, ] ran , in which Litvinenko made claims that Putin is a paedophile. It needs to be pointed out that ] is a ''news agency'' which is linked to ], who himself is an associate of ]; both of whom were associates of ]. Zakayev is the current PM of the ]; depending on who is discussing it, the ] is the separatist/terrorist government of Chechnya. All 3 people are/were critics of Putin; and all 3 people are/were wanted in Russia on criminal charges; and all 3 people were granted asylum in the UK. This information is required to be taken into account in order to understand potential biases.


:I can understand changes being made about 1 or 2 hrs ''before'' the actual event, when dealing with so many bios. But 12 hrs before the event, is too early. ] (]) 16:41, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
Now to the problem. One of the sources referenced for this section is the ]. states the following: "Alexander Litvinenko wrote a '''sensational and unsubstantiated''' article earlier this year accusing Putin of having had sex with underage boys." Looking into this deeper, I can find '''no''' evidence that Litvinenko made this accusation before the belly-kissing "incident", and the fact it was initially ''reported'' by a website with dubious reliability, and if not that then vested interests, and a history of making unsubstantiated claims. All sources (with the exception of the Chechenpress) which have even mentioned Litvinenko's accusation have only made mention of the fact that Litvinenko made the claim, so they do not substantiate the claim in any way. I am a firm believer in ]; a source such as Chechenpress, which has an obvious bias against Putin, should not be used a source in which to present such claims. Again, I can find '''no''' evidence that Litvinenko made this accusation before the belly-kissing "incident". Litvinenko also had a history of making other outlandish claims against Putin; ]. Again, that is a sensational and unsubstantiated claim; however, this is no longer in the article, but equally sensational and unsubstantiated claims of Putin being a paedophile is kept. It is a firm belief that this paedophile claim is kept because it purposely creating a BLP problem with Putin; but tin foil hat egregious nuttery comments that Putin was involved with the London bombings are removed; and it is also my firm belief that is allowing this information to stand.
:Obvious BLP violations are not pedantry. Those edits added provably incorrect information. Can ] provide a policy-based answer why those edits do not violate BLP guidance? This is just bad acting under the cover of labelling others. Do they not see that? ] (]) 19:59, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
Therequiembellishere's response here demonstrates we actually have a problem, at least with that user, whose reply here is non-responsive to the issue. BLP policy does indeed require {{tq|obsessive fealty and exactitude}}, as long experience with this board has shown. As my OP suggested, any user might justifiably have reverted Therequiembellishere right into 3RR and immediate blocking, just by merely diligently following policy. Therequiembellishere might bookmark this thead for when it happens to them two years from now. I could have done it this morning, but instead chose to create this thread and invite the user to comment. Would preemptive full protection be a reasonable solution to such flippant disruption? ] (]) 20:14, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
::I oppose pre-emptive full protection. I strongly support an immediate sitewide block of any repeat offenders, with the block to expire at noon Washington, DC time on the swearing in day. ] (]) 21:51, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
:I'm with Therequiembellishere on this: a prediction, especially one based on clear US law, is not a false statement or a BLP violation. Joe Manchin's term does end on January 3rd, 2025, and that was still true on January 2nd, 2025. It's, in fact, been true for over a month now. The only way it could end on a different day would be if Joe Manchin had died before then, which would obviously be a BLP violation to assume.
:(Unlike Therequiembellishere I don't even think the opposition is pedantry. Pedants are technically correct; to say that the end of Joe Manchin's term was not January 3rd before January 3rd is not even technically correct. It's just false.) ] (]) 07:43, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
::IMO the issue is not the term ending time but the claim Joe Manchin served as senator etc when he was still serving as a senator at the time. ] (]) 10:50, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
:::For further clarity. I think our readers reasonably understand our articles might be outdated. So if the article says Joe Manchin is serving and his term ended a few hours ago or even a few days ago that's fine. I mean in other cases it's reasonable to expect them to even be weeks or months out of date. But if out article says Joe Manchin served, I think they reasonable would expect he is no longer serving. As I understand it, there's no more issue. But if this reoccurs, I'm not sure Cullen328's solution is correct. I mean if some admin is volunteering to mollycoddle each repeat offender then okay I guess. But otherwise the norm is we expect editors to obey our policy and guidelines by themselves without needing handholding in the form of continual blocks everytime something comes up to stop them. Therefore I'd suggest either an admin subject them to escalating blocks quickly leading up to an indefinite if they repeat perhaps under BLP or AP2; or we do it via community bans. While I'd personally be fine with a site ban, it might be more palatable to the rest of the community if we instead do it as a topic ban on making such changes. With a clear topic ban, hopefully an admin will be more willing to subject them to escalating blocks. Even if not, I think the community would be much more willing to siteban such editors if they repeat after a community topic ban. As a final comment, I also don't see why editor feels it's something so urgent that they need to do it 12 hours in advance. This almost seems one of those lame edits we sometimes get at the ANs resulting from the apparent desire of an editor to be first or get the credit so we have editors creating "drafts" with basically zero content long before there's anything to write about then some other editor is sick of this editor doing this and so ignores the draft and makes their own. ] (]) 12:59, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
:::Technically speaking, if you are still serving you also have served. So it's not technically speaking false, although this really ''is'' pedantry and I would not say it's the most true possible statement.
:::I'm still not convinced it's a BLP violation, though. ] (]) 04:24, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
::::I think the argument is being made {{ping|LokiTheLiar}}, that editing in someone is no longer holding an office, when they still are & somebody has assumed office, when they haven't yet, is problematic. ] (]) 16:24, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
{{ping|BusterD}} maybe a RFC or something is required, to establish how to handle future premature changes to such bios. ] (]) 22:31, 5 January 2025 (UTC)


== Serious BLP vios in ] ==
This needs to be looked at on the grounds of breaching ], and am requesting some assistance in doing that from uninvolved editors. --] <sup>] ]</sup> 01:17, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
:In the I actually '''removed''' those claims from Introduction per undue weight, and in I justified this ''removal''. However, another user (Krawdawng) argued that materials should stay in the article as notable accusations published in multiple sources, and I agreed with him.] (]) 20:09, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
::It doesn't even present as fact that Putin is supposedly a peadophile, it merely says that Litvinenko had accused him of paedophilia. This isn't listed on Putin's biography page, but on that of Litvinenko, who most certainly isn't a "living person" anymore. ] (]) 18:57, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
:::I could not find anything about it in books. So, it would be safer to remove. Done.] (]) 00:22, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
::::Actually, I've reinserted it, because now it is written in a totally NPOV way. It is all sourced to reliable sources (Chechenpress whilst not being a RS, is included as this is where it was originally reported and is linked to in order to demonstrate the accusation existed). End of saga? Perhaps not. :) --] <sup>] ]</sup> 00:35, 13 November 2008 (UTC)


This article is riddled with serious BLP vios. I tried tagging them, but there are so many I would have to carpet bomb the page with CN tags. This page needs urgent attention from any editors with experience and/or sources pertaining to organized crime. -] (]) 17:21, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
== Is calling a person fringe antisemitic far right writer a BLP violation? ==


:P.S. I've taken a look at most of the articles on North American mafia groups and almost all have serious BLP issues. I've added "Category:Possibly living people" with its BLP Edit Notice to all of the pages excepting groups that have been defunct for more than thirty years. These pages are in rough shape and a lot of material needs to be either cited or deleted. -] (]) 03:32, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
Please see ] for detailed explanation and diffs. Thank you, --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 00:34, 7 November 2008 (UTC)


== Taylor Lorenz BLP issues and harassment of subject based on article contents ==
: It is not, if that is the way the person is described in reputable sources, and even in that case, you should attribute the opinion to those that hold it. ] <small>]</small> 02:46, 7 November 2008 (UTC)


The ] article has an unusual history in the sense that the contents of the article have led to harassment of Lorenz in the past, or other issues impacting her financially.
:: All the uses in question seem to be on the talk page, not on the article page. The BLP policy deals with article content, as I understand it. ] (]) 02:53, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
::: Not really... ] says that ''Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material about living persons — whether the material is negative, positive, or just questionable — should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion, from Misplaced Pages articles, talk pages, user pages, and project space.'' ] <small>]</small> 03:10, 7 November 2008 (UTC)


Most recently it was regarding her date of birth and Misplaced Pages choosing to use a date range, with the allegations being that it was Lorenz choosing to keep her birthdate off of the Internet or being deceitful.
::::In that case, what should we do? Should the user who (apparently acting on his own judgment, not citing any sources for those slanderous descriptions) be warned about BLP and asked to refactor his posts? I pointed out that it may be a BLP violation, but so far this is repeatedly ignored. As I am involved there, I'd appreciate if neutral BLP reviewers could issue warnings if deemed appropriate. --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 03:49, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
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There have also seemingly been issues according to Lorenz with errors in the article causing her lost business opportunities
:::::Please tell me who "Mark Paul" is, or something - anything - about him, and then I can try to ascertain whether or not he has been the subject of a BLP violation. ]<sup><small><font color="DarkGreen">]</font></small></sup> 03:53, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
{{blockquote|"This insane 100% false story is affecting my brand deals and some partnership stuff I have in the works for 2025, so I really need it corrected ASAP!!!"}}


An addition of a 'Harassment and coordinated attacks' section was in August of last year, with information being added shortly after regarding a Twitter suspension. I moved the text around recently in an at a more neutral article that was quickly reverted. A followed shortly after but there hasn't been a policy based consensus.
::::::Guilty until proven innocent? Sorry, Jayjg, that's not our policy.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 03:59, 7 November 2008 (UTC)


My question- should we have a devoted harassment section included for someone who has been harassed based on her Misplaced Pages profile previously? It seems like ] comes into play with directly focusing attention on her being a victim and could lead to further harassment by highlighting it with equal weight as her career section.
:::::::Piotrus, you at least have to provide some evidence that "Mark Paul" is a real living person for BLP to apply. ] <sup>'']''</sup> 04:05, 7 November 2008 (UTC)


Personally I think the material could be presented more neutrally per ] but wanted to get a wider opinion.
::::::::That's precious. I hope some BLP admin will step in soon... --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 04:11, 7 November 2008 (UTC)


There is also a discussion currently going on if we should include her year of birth .
:::::::::No seriously--any evidence that it's a real person? I can't find any. All that comes up are fringe websites and Misplaced Pages articles where some of your colleagues have used "him" as a source, or in one instance, created a whole article . ] <sup>'']''</sup> 04:19, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
] (]) 20:57, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
'''Yes, BLP violation''' - under almost no circumstances should we be making this kind of deeply unpleasant accusation - and that part of policy even includes circumstances in which we have really good evidence for it. This is not borderline, since administrators have previously warned that even naming a convicted holocaust denier is a . ]<sup><small>]</small></sup> 18:03, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
04:50, 6 January 2025 (UTC) ''Fixed incorrect diff''
: Ugh no. The individual in question is not a convicted holocaust denier. The reason that was removed is because it simply isn't accurate. ] (]) 01:55, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
::It is a mis-understanding that blp only applies at articles, not talk pages. At there is a discussion where a admin thought I was worng for deleting potential blp from a talk page, and Jimbo Wales explained the policy. ] ] 02:01, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
::: You don't need argumentum ad Jimbum for that. That's in the policy proper, and not relevant to the discussion at hand. ] (]) 02:05, 10 November 2008 (UTC)


:{{Strikethrough|@] it looks like the paragraph below got moved past your signature, and therefor appears orphaned.
== ] ==
:] (]) 02:06, 8 January 2025 (UTC)}}


:Removing the harassment section furthers the narrative that there are no coordinated harassment campaigns against her, and acts to diminish the effect those coordinated campaigns have wrought upon her. Generally speaking, victims of harassment don't want what they've gone through to be diminished.
{{La|Eric Dezenhall}} - As the subject of the article, I am requesting an admin or other Wiki-editor familiar with ] to review and correct the ] entry. The article violates Misplaced Pages BLP policy in several areas, including ],], ], ], ] and ] requirements. NPOV issues that I raised a year ago have not been fully resolved and since then additional false and strong POV information has been added. Additionally, it is my policy and my firm’s policy to <b>never</b> disclose who our clients are. The list of clients included in the article about me is inaccurate speculation, presumably by individuals who want Misplaced Pages readers to believe these are clients of my firm. The sources currently cited in the article are either reprints of or refer back to a single article published by Business Week that relied on an anonymous source, who later apologized for providing false information to the journalist. I would like to see any passages involving speculated clients of mine or my firm’s removed and the entire article to be better sourced. Would an editor please weigh in on these issues and leave any feedback on my talk page. ] (]) 18:43, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
:I added an initial disclaimer to the client list, but most of the clients are sourced per ]. Although not useful in the article, CFSA lists a Dezenhall email on its media and numerous edits to ] and related articles have been made by ], which resolves to Dezenhall Resources. ] | ] 22:10, 1 November 2008 (UTC)


:I am unaware of any evidence that discussing harassment on wiki for her, or in general, leads to further harassment. If that evidence exists, I'd certainly be wiling to change my stance.
An editor wrote on my talk page and asked that I outline my specific concerns; I will try to do so below:
:] (]) 08:19, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:1.The client section and any mention of specific clients must be removed.
::We don't take a stance on supporting a narrative for something - we neutrally present both sides of an argument based on their prevalence in reliable sources; nothing more and nothing less. Our only priority is making sure it's presented ''neutrally'', above all other content policies. In essence, we don't take a side and if something reads as though it is biased to one side it should be rewritten.{{pb}}
::a. Because neither I, nor my firm, ever discuss who our clients are, any mention of clients in the article about me is inaccurate speculation.
::Regarding coordinated harassment - If an incident regarding a public figure is significant it will have received plenty of third party sources reporting on it. I spent a few hours looking over sources for anything mentioning her harassment being coordinated and third party coverage supporting it and came up almost empty on third party coverage. And the main source of her mentioning harassment was her ,while on her book tour.{{pb}}
::b. The references cited verifying the list of clients all refer back to and were published subsequent an article published by Business Week in 2006 that relied on an anonymous source leaking false documents.
::I did find that Lorenz mentioned being harassed in several deleted tweets. The only two sources I could find in support of anything involving the words "coordinated harassment campaign" or similar were from Lorenz discussing the Libs Of Tik Tok backlash ({{tq|It’s eye opening to see how sophisticated & vicious these coordinated attacks have become.}},
:::i. This anonymous source has since apologized to me for providing false information to the journalist regarding the clients named in the Business Week article.
::::#IWMF organization post the day after the Carlson incident ({{tq|Carlson’s commentary is a deliberate, deeply dangerous effort to mobilize harassment toward Lorenz.}} which included a quoted Tweet from Lorenz stating she had suffered from a smear campaign
:::ii. Misplaced Pages is clear on sourcing requirements for BLP material and while these articles may have been published in reputable magazines, each relied on false information and do not offer new evidence to confirm the claims laid forth in the Business Week article.
::::#Media Manipulation brief by her friend Emily Dreyfuss {{tq|Lorenz is a frequent target of coordinated harassment campaigns that include being swatted, stalked,}} which would be a ] due to the friendship, and more than likely not considered a reliable source due to no fact checking on a brief or editorial oversight and a lot of it is opinion based.
:2. The entire article needs to have better NPOV sourcing.
::We present information neutrally and let readers come to their own conclusion. "The aim is to inform, not influence."
::a. The articles used to criticize me do not live up to ] requirements and contain many ] that cast me in a ].
::Going by "we consider a viewpoint's prevalence in reliable sources, not its prevalence among Misplaced Pages editors or the general public." in ], there doesn't seem to be support for her harassment being considered coordinated.
::b. In every single article that is used to cite the list of potential clients, I declined to comment on the alleged clients. Even the Washington Post article couched their allegations by saying they “reportedly included Enron and Exxon Mobil.”
::You had listed sources in support of the above. I mentioned both IWMF and the Media Manipulation brief from your list above, but wanted to cover the other two as well.
<br />Because of the nature of my work, I am often associated with clients and other groups that I have never had anything to do with. A perfect example is an October 2008 Associated Press story that linked me with the practice of “astroturfing.” The original article is no longer available, but the AP’s formal correction can be found here. It is difficult to clear my name entirely and I thank all the editors for their speedy attention in this matter. --] (]) 21:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
::::#TheInformation link - {{tq|No stranger to digital harassment, doxxing or the dangers of online celebrity, Lorenz}} Does not support the above.
:Is there any documentation (Business Week retraction, perhaps?) of what you allege the anonymous source apologized to you for? ] (]) 23:21, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
::::# Forbes link - {{tq|Right-Wing Figures Attack Journalist Taylor Lorenz For Revealing Creator Of ‘Libs Of TikTok’}} Fails ].
::The AP article is not mentioned in the article, and there's no reference to astroturfing either. The does not indicate whether the quotes were from an interview conducted by the writer or statements taken from the books, but the correction concerned the subject of the books. The clients are sourced per ] several times over, and they're included in accordance with Misplaced Pages policy, not your company's policy. I agree the article needs major work -- not to remove the sourced criticism, but expansion to provide info about Dezenhall's fiction writing and commentary -- but it's not something easily accomplished by just one or two editors. ] | ] 18:33, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
::If you have other sources in support of it then I am open to reconsidering my position. My main concern is just presenting the text neutrally and if there could be further issues for the article subject that could arise from having a dedicated harassment section. It's a low possibility, but I also never thought I would see a range for a year of birth used to harass someone so that was a first.
::] (]) 02:12, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
:::You asked a question
:::{{tq|My question- should we have a devoted harassment section included for someone who has been harassed based on her Misplaced Pages profile previously? It seems like ]comes into play with directly focusing attention on her being a victim and could lead to further harassment by highlighting it with equal weight as her career section.}}
:::and I replied to it.


:::] (]) 02:33, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
== ] and ] ==
::::I see that. I thought you had replied to work towards a policy based consensus since this was also in the above {{tq|A TalkPage discussion followed shortly after but there hasn't been a policy based consensus.}}, and since it was a section you added I also assumed you wanted to address the neutrality issues.
::::] (]) 20:16, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
::{{u|Delectopierre}} I believe you meant your post, but I wasn't sure. I attempted a fix that looked good on the post preview but if this was not what you meant please feel free to revert my edit and accept my apologies.
:] (]) 01:51, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
::You're right. My mistake. That's what I get for editing late at night. ] (]) 02:27, 10 January 2025 (UTC)


== Discussion on the scope of ] ==
An ] has been engaged in rather tendentious editing and edit warring on the above two articles. In the case of Will Kirby, there has been repeated addition of such ], going somewhat beyond what is generally considered encyclopaedic information. In the case of Pierzina, there has been deletion of details of police arrests among others which, to me, indicates possible ]. The content warred upon appears to be the same as inserted previously, and warred upon by, ]. ], a ], has been going on since the end of August until the account was blocked for serious and persistent edit warring, and the IP editor has become particularly aggressive over the last two days, and I request ] and eventual blocking of these accounts. ] (]) 02:47, 9 November 2008 (UTC)


There is a discussion at ] about the scope of ]. -- ] - <sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub> 02:22, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
More on what ] has written. Similar edits came from ] last month before the IP address and the ] received a one month ban. Both current and previous IP addresses are from ] (]) 22:41, 9 November 2008 (UTC)


== List of pornographic performers by decade ==
:], back from a one month ban, has once again been edit warring (the IP users appear to have stopped). xhe has been with a ] warning, but continues to edit disruptively. ] (]) 07:21, 10 November 2008 (UTC)


* {{la|List of pornographic performers by decade}}
== ] ==
] is a remarkable article in that it has existed for 20 years and yet, if I were to follow ] to the letter right now, I would have to cut the article down to its first sentence, the section headings, and a single see-also. Saying "X is a pornographic performer" is, obviously, a contentious claim, and as such every entry needs its own citation; it's not enough to rely on the articles as their own ''de facto'' citations, as is the tolerated practice for noncontroversial lists like ]. This is all the more the case because the definition of "pornographic performer" is subjective. With help from Petscan, I've found the following people on the list who are not described in their articles as pornographic performers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]. Many (all?) of them are sex workers of some sort, so in each case, there may be a reliable source that exists that calls them a pornographic performer, but without one, it's a flagrant BLP violation. And if it were just those, I'd remove them and be done with it, but even for the ones whose articles do call them pornographic performers, there's no guarantee of being right. I removed ] from the list after seeing that an IP had removed the mentions of porn in her article, which had indeed been sourced to a press release about a fictionalized depiction of her life. No, each of these entries needs an individual citation appearing on the list article so that the claims can be judged.


So, there are about 650 entries, and we know at least some are questionable, and we cannot assume that <em>any</em> of the rest are correct. What do we do? Again, the letter-of-BLP answer here is to remove the unsourced items, but that would leave literally nothing. The only two citations in the whole thing are to search pages on two non-RS porn databases. So at that point we might as well apply ]. Another solution would be to find sources for, I don't know, two or three people in each heading, just so it's not empty, remove everything else, and stick {{tl|incomplete list}} there. A third option is AfD. Does anyone have any ideas?
Dispute over whether (or how) to include critical article from the '']''. Uninvolved editors requested to step in. <font color="404040">]</font> 19:53, 9 November 2008 (UTC)


P.S. I haven't even looked at other lists of pornographic performers. Are they all like this? <span style="font-family:courier"> -- ]</span><sup class="nowrap">&#91;]]</sup> <small>(])</small> 05:01, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:Easy call -- the article is specifically '''editorial''' in nature, thus allowing it as a cite only as representing the opinions of its author. It does not try to present factual information by any journalistic standards. ] (]) 20:31, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
:::In this instance, that is incorrect. The issue is that you have Limbaugh and conservative commentators saying that Democrats are planning to take over 401(k)s. There is no plan, there is one economist's testimony. That an opinion piece points out that there is no plan, and that it's based upon one economist's testimony, doesn't make that an "opinion" - that's a fact. --<font color="#0000C0">David</font> ''']''' 20:34, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
::::I agree, the column (and not an editorial) is as much a fact-check as it is an opinion piece. Though if the rebuttals in the column couldn't be used as fact, then could you instead say, "James Rainey of the LA Times disputed..." or something to that effect? ] (]) 21:06, 9 November 2008 (UTC)


:I don't have a solution to this @], but the first name I looked at was ]. Her article references her full frontal appearance and describes it as sexploitation. Sexploitation films are not pornographic films. I can't see any mention of pornographic acting in her article? This is a problem. ] (]) 05:11, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
== ] ==
::Doing some spot-checking, ] is described in his article as a director of ]s but not as an actor – and it does not seem as though pink films are necessarily pornographic; ] is categorised as a porn actor but the text of the article does not seem to support this. Clearly there's a problem here. ] (]) 05:57, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:Hm, yes, per WP:BLP each LP on this list should have a decent ref (better than ], see ), and it wouldn't hurt the others either. I'm slightly reminded of a complaint I made at ]. It's not the same, but it's still sensitive. ] (]) 07:26, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:Btw, per ] and ], it seems they're not all like that, but ] lists people without WP-articles, my knee-jerk reaction is that that's not good. ] (]) 07:35, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
::] most seem to be referenced using "International Adult Film Database" which is user generated. Imdb for born actors. ] (]) 07:45, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:::]. ] (]) 07:51, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:I'll be honest, I thought we'd dealt with this before and it was no longer a problem. I'm sure in previous discussions we're generally agrees such lists should only contain notable individuals with articles i.e. no black links or red links (if an editor believes someone is notable they need to create the article first). I thought we'd also agreed to strictly require inline citations when adding names regardless of what the individual articles say. I couldn't find many of the previous discussions though but did find we seem to have a lot more of these lists in the past. ] (]) 09:48, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
::I'm aware of a few circumstances in which pornographic actors faced serious obstacles in their lives after leaving the industry and tried hard to separate themselves from their prior career. I would hope, in these cases, we respect their wishes and just leave them off. ] (]) 12:16, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:::Depending on situation, we might or we might not. ] (]) 12:24, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
::::My main concern is for people who have explicitly expressed that they no longer want to be public people, being honest. Those who have struggled to transition to non-pornographic acting, music, etc. is less of my concern. ] (]) 12:38, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::That's understandable but it runs into issues with ] where editors think that once someone is a public figure, it is forever.
:::::Recently there was I believe the son of a lady who had appeared in Playboy a long time ago who had asked for her article to be removed on BLPN. The specifics that I remember are vague, but essentially she had been a Playmate one year and editors had built an article for her even though she was a relatively private person other than the fact she was in Playboy in the early 80's. The family member had suggested that the article basically loomed over her head and caused harm to her reputation since it was something she did once 30+ years ago and distanced herself from almost immediately. I can't say i disagree that in cases like that, there shouldn't be an article.
:::::] (]) 15:40, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
::::::I wasn't aware of that specific case but that is precisely the sort of circumstance under which I think a private person's right to privacy should be weighed more important than Misplaced Pages completionism. ] (]) 15:43, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::::I'm reminded of ] per . Other end of the scale, perhaps. ] (]) 15:49, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
::{{u|Nil Einne}} You may be thinking of which you on.
::] (]) 16:13, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:::I don't think it was really that, although I did forget about it so thanks for reminding me. One of the issues with that list is since it was such a high profile case I felt it likely there would at least be secondary source coverage, and also as pornographic appearances go, I feel being Playmate is a lot less controversial than other stuff; so while it was bad, I didn't feel it quite as severe as most of the other stuff we're doing or have been doing. I was thinking of older discussions probably especially the RfC below. ] (]) 17:14, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:I don't know where to get sources for this. I would suggest doing as you say, and cutting every non-verifiable person from the page. Anyone interested can hunt down acceptable sources for each entry. ] <sup> (]) </sup> 01:49, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
Given the lack of referencing and the entries included in error, pointed out above, then I would be in favour of removing every unreferenced entry on the list. If that leaves literally nothing, well - AFD. If somebody ''really'' wants this information, well, categories exist. ]<sup>]</sup> 14:40, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:I would support this as well, and honestly would probably still vote to delete a list with only the referenced entries if it were brought at AfD. A list page doing the job of one or several category pages and nothing more has no purpose. '''''<span style="color:#503680">] ] ]</span>''''' 13:22, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
::Would a blank-and-soft-redirect to ] be a good solution here? That way the list is still in the history for anyone who wants to restore it with references. The "by decade" might be misleading in that case, but we could first reverse the hard redirect from {{-r|List of pornographic performers}}, which this probably should have been at anyways. Another option would be a list of lists at ] and redirecting there. <span style="font-family:courier"> -- ]</span><sup class="nowrap">&#91;]]</sup> <small>(])</small> 18:06, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
:::I think your first suggestion is a good idea, I'd support that for sure. Definitely less favorable to a list of lists though. '''''<span style="color:#503680">] ] ]</span>''''' 20:28, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
*I knew we had a lengthy RfC/Discussion about this subject matter, it just took me a while to find it though – <span class="plainlinks"></span>, and also this <span class="plainlinks"></span>. Discussions are ten years old, but I don't think anything in the lengthy close of the RfC has changed. I was one of the volunteers who helped add refs to this article → ], which if I recall correctly, was the impetus for the RfC. Good luck, sourcing these types of lists are a massive chore.]] 16:03, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
*:RFC closer said in 2014:
*:''Q: Should all pre-existing lists of porn performers have a reliable source supporting each entry?''
*:''A: The rough consensus below is that it's always more controversial to call someone a porn performer than to say they're engaged in most other professions. A reliable source should be added for every entry that's challenged or likely to be challenged. But as a concession to the practicalities, editors are asked not to go through the pre-existing lists making large-scale and unilateral challenges, as this will overwhelm the people who maintain these lists with work, and there is a legitimate concern that this is unfair. If you do intend to remove unsourced entries, please proceed at a reasonable, non-disruptive speed dealing with what you judge to be the highest-priority cases first. If you could easily source an entry yourself, then removing it as unsourced is rather unhelpful.'' ] (]) 16:21, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
*::Well, removing ~650 entries after 10 years of the list's maintainers doing nothing to fix this would average out to, what, ~1.2 per week since that RfC? That seems like a reasonable, non-disruptive speed to me. Courtesy ping @]. <span style="font-family:courier"> -- ]</span><sup class="nowrap">&#91;]]</sup> <small>(])</small> 16:50, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
*:::Yes, I do vaguely remember making that close ten years ago. I agree that it's appropriate to implement its outcome in full now.—]&nbsp;<small>]/]</small> 17:58, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
*::::I support that. ] <sup> (]) </sup> 01:51, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
Based on discussion above, I have redirected the list to ]. This way, the content is still there in the history, and can be restored by any editor willing to take the time to dig up the sources. If anyone objects, I'm happy to argue the case at AfD. <span style="font-family:courier"> -- ]</span><sup class="nowrap">&#91;]]</sup> <small>(])</small> 03:40, 13 January 2025 (UTC)


:Good enough. ] (]) 05:51, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
This page is completely negative and hypocritical. His firm's page at 5W Public Relations was scrubbed, because blogs werent reliable, and now those same editors are citing blogs (goldberg posted on a blog, no matter where else he writes) to condemn him. He was named to arguably the 2 most prominent 40 under 40 lists in his industry (adage and PR Week), but its posted as a negative. Those editors have taken it hostage. Please help. <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 21:35, 9 November 2008 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->
:I moved the above report here from ], which is for general BLP issues, not individual complaints. ] (]) 22:23, 9 November 2008 (UTC) :For the interested, ] is ongoing. ] (]) 08:52, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
:{{re|Tamzin}} Citations are a ] issue. In 2018 (example ), every BLP entry required and had ] citations. Editors at the time considered the requirement to be overkill, and a requirement for an existing WP article supported by good references was deemed sufficient. It was a compromise among editors. Does selectively restoring the sourced 2018 content and then re-adding male, non-binary and new female entries that can be sourced sound like a viable plan to you? ] (]) 11:21, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
::I'm not sure I understand the BLP complaint here. Anything that could be considered negative is attributed to a reliable source (the user complained about an anonymous quote that was taken from an article, and I was happy to remove it). As it stands now, the article mentions the subject's industry recognition and a couple of praises, as well as some neutral assessment, and a harsh critique by an Atlantic Monthly writer. The article subject is known for, and takes pride in being controversial, so the balance between praise and critique seems reasonable to me. ] (]) 23:08, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
::Do you consider ] a good enough source in context? ] (]) 11:38, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
::This is now being discussed at the RS noticeboard ,where I and several other people gave a very definite opinion that Goldberg's column in the Atlantic is the column of a well know commentator published in a reliable publication, not a blog, even though it is published in that format. It is in my opinion acceptable even for negative BLP. Reader write in responses are the sort of things that cannot be used for BLP in most cases. Further discussion should probably take place there for centralization ''']''' (]) 13:09, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
:::AVN's newsroom content is considered reliable as noted at ]. Caution must be applied in distinguishing hard news reporting from repackaged press releases. If an AVN citation is not good enough, other references that sustain notability for the existing stand-alone WP article can be brought in to overcome any BLP concerns. ] (]) 11:53, 13 January 2025 (UTC)


== chew chin hin ==
== ] reported by ] ==


https://www.ttsh.com.sg/About-TTSH/TTSH-News/Pages/In-Loving-Memory-Prof-Chew-Chin-Hin.aspx
{{resolved}}
* Page: {{article|Michele Bachmann}}
* User: {{userlinks|Leakywaders}}


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* 1st example:
:Thanks – I see you have his article. Does anything more need to be done here? There's no need to discuss the deaths of every person who has an article on this noticeboard unless there's a particular issue. ] (]) 16:11, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
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== Beyoncé ==
Although the material differs with each edit, the jist is similar and unacceptable for a WP:BLP.--] (]) 18:34, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
: Blocked indef for being a vandalism-only account. ] <small>]</small>


Looks like Beyoncé fan club president is editing the article and ] (]) 10:48, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
== ] ==


:Hi, anon! Please talkpage your concerns. When you do, please state with specificity what's wrong with each edit and why (policies/guidelines). Your diffs, in light of the normal editing process, don't indicate a severe BLP violation or failure to find consensus on the talkpage. Cheers. ] (]) 23:37, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
I'm certainly not an expert in BLP, nor libel, but this caught my eye. Appropriate? The claim is that as a ''medical student at the University of Southampton, where friends say he called himself "Andy", drank alcohol, indulged in casual sex, smoked cannabis and even took LSD, although Choudary himself denies this. His friends say that he was famed for his ability to drink a pint of cider in a few seconds.'' The POV descriptions continue. Cheers, ''']'''<sup>]</sup> 12:10, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
::They really could use some help...... and . As mentioned <span style="display:inline-flex;rotate:-15deg;color:darkblue">''']'''</span><span style="display:inline-flex;rotate:15deg;color:darkblue">]</span> 17:58, 9 January 2025 (UTC)


== Bob Martinez ==
:Well the ] is in principle a decent enough ], even if the article being cited is a bit of a (and of course bearing in mind that the UK media have more or less declared open season on him and others like him). My view FWIW is that there's no problem with mentioning this report. However I would say that there's no need for the level of detail that's currently there - it can and probably should be at least summarised much more concisely. The tabloids may want to lay it on with a trowel but it doesn't mean we have to here (and I note elsewhere in the article there is a direct reference to him "raking in" benefits money). But I'm no more of an expert on BLP than you to be honest. --] (]) 18:36, 11 November 2008 (UTC)


There is a derogatory and malicious remark about Former Governor Bob Martinez's wife in his Wiki page biography. It's disgusting to say the least. Please fix this. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 17:05, 7 January 2025 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
== Sneaky Googlebombing-like tactic ==


:It has been removed. ] (]) 17:12, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
, where a name was linked to ], had the (unintended?) secondary effect of making ] come up in . This is rather hard to spot. Any suggestions? --] 16:22, 11 November 2008 (UTC)


== Kith Meng ==
:Could have something to do with ?--] (]) 17:47, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
::We seem clear of any mention of her. . --] (]) 17:50, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
:::I mean for spotting stuff like this, other than happening across it when searching. --] 17:53, 11 November 2008 (UTC)


This person's Misplaced Pages page is being continually changed to remove any mentions of well-documented accusations against him, often by Misplaced Pages accounts that are named after his companies. Now somebody who seems to be a bit more knowledgeable about Misplaced Pages has removed all of the references to crime and corruption, despite them being widely reported on by the press, claiming that it violates Misplaced Pages's policies to mention any accusations if they haven't been proven in court. But many of the incidents mentioned are verifiable, even if he wasn't actually convicted of a crime over them. <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 07:37, 8 January 2025 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
Well, you could do a "what links here" on ] and check the lot manually - but....well...because then you'd need to check ] ] ] ] ] and well... need I say more.--] (]) 18:01, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
:FYI, this is the disputed edit by {{U|Georgeee101}} who raised BLPCRIME. I guess the question is whether Meng is a ] for the allegations to be reinstated. That could be done through a RfC. ] (]) 22:21, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
:Yeah, that's the problem. Maybe someone could check a database <s>dumb</s> dump for any links of the form non-person|person? The way it appears in the search is a bit of a BLP problem. --] 18:04, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
::I have to be honest, I don't know what that means. I am not a big Wikipedian, I just do edits to articles about Cambodia. Kith Meng is pretty notorious here, there are countless independent articles about some of his antics. But I noticed that his Misplaced Pages page kept getting updated by somebody whose username was the name of one of his companies. I kept undoing them, which wasn't a big deal because they were mostly unsourced, written in poor English. But these new edits are also sanitizing his Misplaced Pages page, removing all of the corruption and scandals and reading like one of his publicity announcements, but this time by somebody who seems to know what they're doing. clicking undo didn't do anything. I assume he hired a specialist. ] (]) 14:18, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
::What? I'd ''really'' like to see what kind of golden regex you plan to use for that…
:::It means you should start a discussion on the talk page of the article on whether the allegations should be included given the available sources that are reporting on them. If there is not enough participation, you can notify ] or request a ] for outside comment. You should also ] on the intentions of other editors and not presume that they are undisclosed paid editors. ] (]) 22:27, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
::The single most helpful thing here would be to include the "piped text" with each line of whatlinkshere, then you could just spot-check down the list for anything that is clearly outlandish. I would like this feature as a better way to cleanup "easter egg" style links in general.
::::Thanks, I started a discussion and included some different sources from the different media outlets. If nobody responds for awhile, is it alright for me to unilaterally edit it again? I am not sure what the rules are for trying to settle these sorts of disagreements. I used to always change it back when the account removing the corruption allegations was openly his PR team, but I am a bit nervous about being seen as a vandal if I undo it now that it's somebody else. ] (]) 11:26, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
::But I'm not sure what would be the best way to indicate that a page has several different linked phrases all pointing to the same other page. Regardless of how many times page A links to page B it only makes (currently) one row in the database, so this change wouldn't be as simple as it sounds. — ] 19:09, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
:::::Now that it's been disputed under BLP grounds, you must gain consensus before reinstating them. That is why I encourage you to notify Wikiproject Cambodia of the discussion and then a RfC to gather more participation. ] (]) 21:43, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
:::Well, you could get a list of people from ], and then run through the articles using that. It would probably take a while though. --] 19:17, 12 November 2008 (UTC)


== Occupation of ] == == ] ==


Personal life section frequently vandalized with biased, possibly libelous pro-Israel propaganda citing biased sources. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 12:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
Until recently, his occupation was listed as "plumber." It is now a bone of contention, with some insisting that his "occupation" is "illegal plumber" or "unlicensed plumber" or "plumber's helper" or "plumber's assistant." To what degree has such an argument occured before on WP? Is there a precedent for editorializing about occupations in the info box? The prior consensus was that "plumber" was clear enough, but the edit warring with the variants is becoming quite distracting, despite efforts to actually handle this in Talk. I would hope some editors who have absolutely no axes to gring would look into this. Thanks! ] (]) 22:05, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
:] blocked ] for a week. Thank you SFR! I'll also watch the page for future unconstructive edits. Cheers! ] (]) 00:16, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
:It should be plumber in the infobox, with a section describing the reported nuance of his occupation/title. --<font color="#0000C0">David</font> ''']''' 22:13, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
::I think you will find a huge amount about his occupation in the article, possibly too much. ] (]) 22:20, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
:::. References refer to him as unlicensed. Asserting that he is a ''plumber'' implies that he has the ability to act legally as a plumber on his own. A qualifier is the NPOV way to go. There is serious disagreement with asserting he is a plumber according to the references presented. It should be attributed per ]. ] 00:04, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
:::::''"Asserting that he is a plumber implies that he has the ability to act legally as a plumber on his own."''
::::I don't think there's any such implication - "plumber" simply refers to someone who fixes plumbing as a profession, and that is what Joe the Plumber is. It's less a matter of Joe the Plumber's legitimacy as plumber than a variance in licensing standard from state to state. As long as he's employed by a licensed firm, he is allowed to fix plumbing for a living. As deplorable as the use of Joe the Plumber as a campaign prop was, the licensing was, I thought, a non-issue. Why does it matter that he didn't have a license he didn't need? By that logic, a NYC cabbie who doesn't own a medallion isn't a cabbie because he can't pick up passengers on his own. ] (]) 00:20, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
:::::(ec) If he plumbs he's a plumber, right? It's like if a restaurant doesn't have a health license it's still a restaurant. It's not like "CPA" or "registered nurse" where the "certified" part implies the license, or "Realtor" where the term itself is trademarked and reserved for those in the guild. He may be practicing illegally, and in contravention of a law saying he cannot hold himself out as a plumber, but apparently he is practicing. Further, the possible illegality is not part of his profession. Incidentally, this does sound like a content question rather than a BLP issue - although I would argue that adding a pejorative term like "illegal" before someone's occupation, without rock solid sourcing (in this case, a court ruling probably), ''is'' a BLP vio. ] (]) 00:24, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
::::::If he assistant plumbs he is an assistant plumber, and we have multple reliable sources that indicate that is what he does. -- ] 10:35, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
:::::::Quack and Red -- the purpose is to get NEW opinions, not to have you iterate what you have aready said on JtP. Tht is why I specifically asked for editors with no axes to grind. Thanks! ] (]) 11:01, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
::::::::If you can post here, so can any other editor. No editor is authorized to forbid those who disagree with him from posting while he is presenting his views in a new forum. If someone does not have a license in a field where , and reliable sources say he is an unlicensed plumber, electrician, massage therapist, embalmer, dietician or beautician, then it is NPOV to note that fact in an article about him. ] (]) 19:26, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
:::::::If he is an assistant plumber, then that's his title, not his occupation.---''']''' '']'' 21:14, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
::::::::Exactly, no one practices "assistant plumbing" as occupation, just as a junior analyst doesn't "junior analyze" and a chief strategist doesn't "chief strategize". Either one fixes plumbing or one doesn't - Joe the Plumber, between his media appearances, works on plumbing for a living. He just happens not to have a license he is not required to have. ] (]) 21:58, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
The purpose of posting here was to get fresh opinions. Folks who iterate opinions they have already iterated in the article talk page do not really offer new opinions. I agree that "title" and "occupation" are not the same, which is the main salient opinion shared by all those who were not already involved in the talk page discussion. ] (]) 22:07, 12 November 2008 (UTC)


== ] == == Matthew Parish V ==


*{{pagelink|Matthew Parish}}
* {{La|South African Arms Deal}} - Poorly sourced article implicating several real life personages in a corruption scandal. Urgent action required. ] (]) 22:06, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
*Previous discussions: ], ], ], ] & subsequent ]


The subject of this article is a lawyer who has brought legal actions against Misplaced Pages in the past. In June 2018 a rewrite of the article removed significant promotional material and added information on Mr. Parish's then-ongoing legal troubles. An editor claiming to be the subject deleted the legal section entirely, which led to a second thread here and I assume a thorough verification of the material in the article. In 2021 the creator of the article, {{noping|Pandypandy}}, raised another thread here about defamatory material in the article; they were subsequently blocked for COI and suspected UPE editing, making legal threats, and logged-out sockpuppetry. The same editor also created ], which is the dispute in which Mr. Parish is accused of fraudulent arbitration as described in the biography's legal issues section.
== yet another ] issue ==


In 2023 a third BLPN thread was raised on behalf of WMF Legal, who requested that editors review the article in light of multiple requests from Mr. Parish to delete it. The BLPN discussion led to the AFD linked above, which closed as no consensus to delete. In the year-and-a-bit since, numerous IP editors and sockpuppets have edited the article to remove selected information from the legal section, or have removed it all at once, while others have added new contentious information which mostly has been removed by more experienced editors. I have semiprotected the page indefinitely.
Currently in the article: "Jeff Bercovici of Portfolio magazine and ] commentator Keith Olbermann questioned whether West was influenced in her presidential candidate interviews by her husband's connections with the Republican Party. The non-partisan Project for Excellence in Journalism found NBC's regular newscasts "aren't influenced by the left-wing prime-time talk shows hosted by Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow on MSNBC." Commentator Rush Limbaugh, in response, questioned why other reporters with political connections by marriage aren't also questioned. West said that while her husband had worked for Republicans he was also involved with Democrats and denied any impact.[18"


I would like to request that editors once again review the current article for accuracy, and verify that the information in the article is properly cited to and accurately reflects reliable sources. Some editors in the AFD suggested that perhaps the video affair is notable but the bio is BLP1E, so I'm going to restore the draft so it can be reviewed as well. ] (<sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub>) 16:10, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
Some wish to delete anything about Olbermann, although his statement is possible contentious. Is the non-partisan cite an improper balance? The other balance offered (after this issue arose) was to add Rush Limbaugh who is possible more partisan than the non-partisan cite is. Is a stronger partisan view better and does the Limbaugh comment effectively balance any contentious issue? Or would the article be better off sans the entire paragraph in the first place?


== Pronouns ==
I would truly appreciate hearing from editors who are genuinely politically neutral on this, lest my viewpoint or others already in the talk page simply get iterated here. Thanks! ] (]) 22:19, 11 November 2008 (UTC)


A request for assistance: The subject of the article ] asked me about the best way to update their article to reflect the fact that they use they/them pronouns. This is clearly attested to on their personal webpage and also can be seen e.g. in (a recent biographical blurb for an invited presentation). Two questions:
==]==
# Is this sourcing sufficient to make the change? (I think yes but I don't edit biographies much so would appreciate confirmation.)
Can someone in authority please look at ]? This was a major film star of the 1940s, and he is one of the last surviving stars of that era. The article is slanted toward allegations about his sexuality, and also includes a reference to his supposedly being a bad father. Someone even had him being nasty to visitors at the nursing home, which I took out. Reading BLP, I suspect that ther may be an issue with the "undue weight" rule and also that this whole article may be gutted and started from scratch. However, I did not want to do that on my own authority and would appreciate a second opinion.--] (]) 14:39, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
# Is it normal, when making such a change, to leave a comment ''in the article'' (either text or a footnote) indicating that the subject uses they/them? Or just to write it that way and expect that readers can work it out?
:This is Misplaced Pages. Everyone is in authority. I deleted the most egregious tabloid and non-RS stuff, but left in that his wife did appear to call him a "homosexual" which has a genuine source. ] (]) 15:11, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, ] (]) 18:14, 8 January 2025 (UTC)


:Standard practice is that ] sources are adequate for pronouns, except in rare cases where there's reason to doubt someone's sincerity. Usually, someone's pronouns bear mention in a personal life section, same as other gender and sexuality things. Whether to include an explanatory note on first reference is a matter of stylistic discretion; personally, having written a few articles on nonbinary people, I use an {{tl|efn}} if I expect it to confuse readers (either {{pronoun pair|they|them}} or surprising binary pronouns like with ]). <span style="font-family:courier"> -- ]</span><sup class="nowrap">&#91;]]</sup> <small>(])</small> 18:23, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
== Ronnie Nader Article ==
::Thanks very much, {{u|Tamzin}}. Since there is no personal life section of this bio and to stave off possible confusion, I went with an efn; how does look to you? --] (]) 18:42, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
:::Looks good! Check out {{tl|pronoun pair}} if you want to be pedantic about italics and kerning. <span style="font-family:courier"> -- ]</span><sup class="nowrap">&#91;]]</sup> <small>(])</small> 18:55, 8 January 2025 (UTC)


== Uncontentious but still poorly/not sourced info about a living person ==
There are many inconsistencies with referencing in this article. I have researched the sources cited and they have begun to change. For example, the EXA website was registered to a Ronnie Nader. When I wrote this on the discussion board, the new link idicated it no longer belonger to Ronnie Nader. Fortunately, the website keeps a log of any changes, and it was clearly changed the very morning when I posted the information. YOUTUBE is not a source for biographies yet it is used extensively. I firmly believe it is a vanity article and respectfully ask that you review it. I will no longer comment on the discussion page as the tone has heated up quite a lot. I do apologize for not adhering to your policies regarding discussions but the threats I received were uncalled for. I will trust and respect whatever decision you make.] (]) 18:18, 12 November 2008 (UTC)


On ]'s page (since I can't copy and paste the message, his article is short and you can find the parts on there, it's under the "author" section of career) there are areas where it says "citation needed", but I don't think the material is contentious. Do I still need to remove the material ASAP? ] (]) 06:30, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
== ] ==


:I am personally very strict with unsourced content, regardless of it being contentious or not. Generally, however, if the content has been tagged for a reasonable time and remains unsourced, feel free to remove. ]] 10:47, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
* {{La|Jean Claude Van Damme}} - entire 'Health' section seems suspect - not sure the sources qualify as reliable. ] (]) 22:10, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
:"About.com" does not meet the WP standards for being a "reliable source." Lots more to clean up, but removal of non-RS material is a no-brainer. ] (]) 23:11, 12 November 2008 (UTC) ::Thanks, but how do I find out how long it's been up for, and what counts as a "reasonable time"? ] (]) 21:52, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
:::Edit the article, and you will see the date tag - on Chetan Bhagat they are October 2024, so 3 months. Reasonable time is a judgement call. ]] 22:05, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
::::Is there at least a rough range for what should count as reasonable time? Weeks? Months? Years? ] (]) 22:29, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::] seconds. Or days. ]. ] (]) 23:22, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
:::For me, how long to wait to remove depends on the type of content. For example, clearly promotional unsourced content I may just remove without tagging, but other content I may never remove regardless of how long it's been tagged. In this particular article, I would be inclined to remove a sentence such as "It became India's fastest-selling book of its time" pretty quickly. However, a sentence such as "The story was adapted by film director Rajkumar Hirani into a film named 3 Idiots starring Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, and Kareena Kapoor" with blue wikilinks to the film and the actors is likely something I would never remove unless it appeared false since it is not a lot more effort to go the wikilinked page and copy a citation for something as basic as that information. – ] (]) 00:04, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
::::Alright, I removed the sentence about it being one of India's fastest selling books of all time. ] (]) 00:09, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
*Yes this article is heavily unsourced, however, I don't see anything harmful here thus I think "citation needed" tags for sometime will be fine before cleanup of unsourced information. ] (]) 04:27, 11 January 2025 (UTC)


== Jim Justice ==
== When subject requests deletion ==


In relation to the above discussion about ], an editor ({{ping|Eoqkr75}}) keeps putting in that ] is now a US Senator. Justice doesn't assume his Senate seat until January 14, 2025. ] (]) 14:54, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
I've been a bit out of the loop on this. What's our current policy when a borderline-notable (may well be deleted by Prod or AfD) BLP subject requests deletion? - <font face="comic sans ms"><b>]</b> ]<font color="navy">♦</font>]</font> 00:08, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

:I'll ask the obvious question: how do we know the person requesting deletion is the subject? —''']''' (]) 00:21, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
== Scott Ritter Biography - Noncompliance with MOS and BLP Guidelines ==

I am requesting approval to fix issues in the ] article regarding the description of his convictions. The article states in its second sentence: {{color|#b22222|He is a convicted child sex offender.}} Labeling Ritter as a "child sex offender" carries moral judgment and appears to be name-calling, which the MOS <u>explicitly</u> warns against. According to ]: {{tq|Labels such as "convicted sex offender" are imprecise and could be construed as name-calling or a moral judgement. It is better to describe the specific crime itself.}} The current wording fails to comply with this guideline.

2) Undue Weight: MOS:CONVICTEDFELON states that legal issues should only be highlighted in the lead if central to a person’s notability, which is not the case with Ritter's convictions. His notable career as a UN weapons inspector and outspoken critic of the Iraq War is the basis for his fame, not his convictions. Placing this legal information in the second sentence gives it undue prominence, overshadowing his primary achievements. Convictions for online communications with an undercover officer are not what make Ritter notable, as many non-notable individuals face similar charges and nobody is writing their Misplaced Pages bios.

3) Imprecision: The term {{color|#b22222|child sex offender}} in the Ritter bio links to the article for ], which that article defines as {{tq|a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation}}, whereas Ritter's convictions involved contact with an <u>adult</u> undercover police officer posing as a minor. This distinction is significant and misrepresented by the current label.

To bring the article in line with Misplaced Pages's policies, I propose we replace {{color|#b22222|He is a convicted child sex offender}} with: {{color|#00008B|In 2011, Ritter was convicted of several criminal offenses following an undercover sting operation, during which he engaged in sexually explicit online communications with a police officer posing as a minor.}} This phrasing avoids imprecise labeling and provides accurate context.

Placement Adjustment: Move this information to a "Legal issues" or "Controversies" section later in the article, ensuring balance and compliance with the undue weight guideline. However, since this information is already covered in the body, we should simply remove the statement from the first paragraph, or move it down to the bottom of the second paragraph.

I attempted to edit the article to reflect these changes, but my edits were reverted with the explanation that "there was consensus found to include this in the lead." However, no justification was provided for how the current wording and placement comply with MOS and BLP policies. I raised my concerns on the article's Talk Page, but they have not been addressed. ] (]) 19:24, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

:I don't think "convicted sex offender" is particularly useful in a lead given the breadth of its meaning, and I think it makes far more sense to describe the conviction. The current lead does seem to violate the MOS guideline. – ] (]) 19:37, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
: I've changed this per the suggestion. Hopefully the problem is solved. ] (]) 21:03, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
::An editor just reverted the changes without discussion () after I had already made an article talk page comment about this BLPN topic and the violation of MOS policies (). ] (]) 21:59, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
:We're instructed not to make stand alone controversies sections etc so that would be the opposite of balance and compliance with the undue weight guideline unless I'm missing something here. Do you mean as a seperate section of the lead? ] (]) 01:01, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
::Doing like it was in this diff: would be good; a more accurate sentence, at the bottom of the lead, that gives details about the conviction. ] (]) 01:20, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
:::Yes that is preferable, in the lead but not in the first sentence. I think we could say less than that though. ] (]) 18:02, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
::::Please note that That One Editor has once again reverted it to being the less-detailed version in the first paragraph (after having been stymied on a campaign to add unsourced or miss-sourced material to the full sentence.) Can we get more hands on this? -- ] (]) 20:05, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
::::@] Would you like to propose some language? The key is that we should briefly but accurately state the facts of his conviction instead of labeling his person as such. It seems notable that the convictions resulted from a sting operation (versus contact with an actual minor). ] (]) 01:41, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::How about "In 2011, Ritter was convicted of criminal offenses after engaging in sexually explicit online communications with a police officer posing as a minor." Pretty close to OP's proffer but a little shorter. ] (]) 01:59, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
* Now at AE, see ]. ] (]) 20:27, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

:I'm not sure it should be in the lead at all as it doesn't seem like the thing that made him notable. However, if he is only notable for the combination of his offense plus his other work then the lead should make that clear. As a stand alone fact it should either be at the end of the lead or not at all. ] (]) 21:20, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
::He is only notable for his other career activities. The criminal offenses by themselves fail notability. ] (]) 05:45, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

== ] ==

There seems to be some editing back and forth going on in the Personal Life section re: Caitlyn Jenner controversy. <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 01:53, 14 January 2025 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:What's the back and forth? There don't seem to be recent back and forth problems in the edit history. Do you mean ] discussion in the prose? Please feel free to voice your concern on the article talkpage before escalating here. This is a forum for when consensus isn't apparent or serious BLP violations occur. ] (]) 03:07, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
::I don't see any back and forth either, but in my view, using ] as the sole source for that paragraph is a BLPVIO.]] 08:45, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

== ] ==

This article and its references are a combination of two different people (] to see the german article for both), how should this be best addressed? ] and 2 Stubs? ] (]) 09:40, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

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    Pretendian

    Full of BLP and NPOV vio's, unencyclopedic language and unreliable sources. I removed a couple.   Much of article reads like it was copied from a blog post or tabloid, and lack of proof of Native ancestry (and/or or not being enrolled in a tribe) is repeatedly conflated with lying. --Middle 8(s)talk 18:48, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

    ... and the two diffs above got reverted , restoring some really poor prose and sources. This is a very sensitive topic area and I don't want to bite anyone, but clearly the article needs more experienced editorial eyes and existing editors need to review WP:BLP (and hopefully realize the difference between editing an encyclopedia and human rights advocacy). --Middle 8(s)talk 11:04, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
    Unless a published reliable source specifically describes the person as a "pretendian", they should not be on that notable examples list at all. BLP is clear on this - any contentious material about a living person that is unsourced or poorly sourced should be removed immediately. Isaidnoway (talk) 12:55, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
    One problem is that while the article is about people who falsely claimed Native American heritage, its title is from a pejorative slang term, which it begins by defining. Perhaps a change of title along with moving information about the term Pretendian further down would help.
    Listing any notable people who have pretended to have native heritage is a recipe for imbalance and unwieldy length. Instead, we should find sources specifically about the topic to determine which persons are significant to the topic. It's more important to understand why this happens, how frequent it is and what damage it causes than to provide a hit list of perpetrators.
    TFD (talk) 15:20, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
    It's more important to understand why this happens, how frequent it is and what damage it causes than to provide a hit list of perpetrators. Well said! Schazjmd (talk) 15:29, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
    • The title strikes me as violating WP:POVTITLE; I'm skeptical that the term is common enough to pass WP:COMMONNAME for the phenomenon. If the article is going to cover the phenomenon and not the neologism (and currently, most sources in it don't use the term), it needs to be renamed to a descriptive title. The hard part is coming up with one. --Aquillion (talk) 16:19, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

    A lengthy requested move discussion already occurred and nothing has changed with the term to warrant a title change in the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Pretendian#Requested_move_21_December_2021  oncamera  (talk page) 16:36, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

    • It seems fairly evident that the neologism and the phenomenon are both notable, but we shouldn't be covering the phenomenon under the neologism: I don't see evidence that "pretendian" is the dominant descriptive term even for high-profile cases of falsely claiming native ancestry. And it goes without saying that an absence of evidence of native ancestry is insufficient to list an individual on that page. Vanamonde93 (talk) 17:25, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
    I mean, if the article is titled "Pretendian", the only sources that could justify putting someone on the page is a source using the term "Pretendian" specifically. It's a sufficiently emotive neologism that we can't really WP:SYNTH someone into that category - any source that doesn't use the word "Pretendian" is useless. If we want a list of BLPs who fall under the broader concept, we would need a separate article for that; we can't label people with a neologism without a specific source using the term. --Aquillion (talk) 16:13, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
    That discussion is three years old, but more importantly, it doesn't address the WP:BLP / WP:LABEL issue. We can have an article on a neologism, absolutely; we cannot label individuals with a negative neologism unless we have a source using that precise word to refer to them. Any living person named in that article must have at least one high-quality source calling them a "Pretendian", using that exact word. Anyone who doesn't have that source backing up the fact that they have been called a "Pretendian", specifically, needs to be removed immediately until / unless that source is found - sources that use other words are useless (and WP:OR / WP:SYNTH in context.) --Aquillion (talk) 16:20, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
    The term "pretendian" is used frequently in news sources (some Canadian news outlets have dedicated reporters on a dedicated "pretendian beat". The term is used in academia (Google Scholar with Indigenous, Google Scholar with Native, to weed out the Spanish-language discussions). Indigenous identity fraud is used but not nearly as often. If you want to suggest a name change, the talk page of Talk:Pretendian would be the place to do it. Yuchitown (talk) 16:48, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
    In order for a BLP to be included in the notables examples list though, the derogatory term "pretendian" needs to be used frequently and widely published in high-quality reliable sources describing that individual as such, in order for the BLP to be included in that section per BLP and LABEL. Isaidnoway (talk) 18:45, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
    I agree with Isaidnoway, Aquillion and others. It's one thing to have an article on the concept and under that name. That might very well be justified if there are sufficient sources referring to it. However it's another to list living persons as pretendians. That needs sufficient sources establishing it's a common enough term used to describe this person. These sources needs to clearly use the term and not simply say other things such as the person has claimed Native American ancestry but it appears to be false. Likewise in others on the person, it's fine to mention controversies over any claims, but they should not be called or categorised as pretendians without sources. Nil Einne (talk) 07:54, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
    It's not a matter of what the article is named; the problem is WP:LABEL. For an emotive, negative term like "pretendian", we need, at the absolute bare minimum, at least one source actually describing someone as such using that precise word. Going "well these sources accusing them of indigenous identity fraud are essentially the same thing" is WP:SYNTH; in other contexts it might not be enough to worry about but in the context of applying a highly emotive label to a living person it's unacceptable. We can have an article on the term, but we can't use it as the general list for people accused of indigenous identity fraud because of that issue; all we can list there are people called "pretendian" specifically, using that exact word. --Aquillion (talk) 15:02, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
    That's valid. Some people have been described as "pretendians" in published, secondary sources. I'd be fine with a separate list for Indigenous identity fraud since that's a more neutral descriptive term that is increasingly being used in scholarly writing. I've been slammed IRL but can find citations in the near future. Yuchitown (talk) 15:27, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
    I've had a read of the Pretendians Talk page, having previously raised some concerns re BLP sourcing, and I share the concerns that the term 'Pretendian' is being used as a neutral descriptor. It's clear from the various discussions on the Talk page that it is a contentious term. I would also be in favour of moving some of the content to a list named something akin to 'Indigenous Identity Fraud' and reframing the Pretendians page as an explanation of the neologism.
    I'm concerned about some of these BLP issues being raised previously on the Talk page and dismissed in each case - e.g. here, here and here. It looks to me that this page may have multiple BLP violations that need further attention. Whynotlolol (talk) 09:24, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
    This is a complicated issue (especially from a BLP perspective) and it seems like a lot of the long form sources note just how complicated an issue this is. I think that others may be right in saying that there may be multiple overlapping notable and perhaps less notable topics here which can be organized in a number of ways. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 20:34, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

    Poorly sourced Russian spies/ex-spies poisoning claim of Bashar al-Assad

    Bashar al-Assad (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) BLP attention is needed. On the talk page I have warned about the Russian spies'/ex-spies' Telegram claim of Bashar al-Assad being poisoned being too poorly sourced. Probably because of al-Assad's status as a fugitive wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity and as an ex-dictator, few people seem to be bothered with leaving the rumour in place, despite the low quality of the sourcing that all point to a viral rumour based on the General SVR Telegram channel. The WP:WEASELly "may have been" and "it was reported that" seem to be seen as sufficient to justify propagating the rumour, without attribution to General SVR as the source of the claim. After half a day, none of the more regular mainstream media sources appear to have said anything about this, including independent reliable Russian sources such as Meduza and The Moscow Times. Currently there are two sentences with the rumour (one in the lead, one in the body of the article). Diffs:

    Boud (talk) 13:32, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

    I see, thanks for letting me know about it. Richie1509 (talk) 13:40, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
    See also: Claims of Vladimir Putin's incapacity and death#October 2023 claims of death from the same source. Boud (talk) 17:47, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
    Thank you for clearing up this point, i was not aware of it. I will be careful in the future BasselHarfouch (talk) 07:24, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
    Dear @Boud: Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I understand how important it is to maintain high standards for sourcing on Misplaced Pages. When I added the reference to Newsweek, I did so in good faith, as I recall it being a respected publication during my upbringing. I wasn't aware that the community's perception of the source has shifted over time, and I appreciate you pointing this out. If we had talked about it first, I would have gladly reverted it myself. Collaboration and communication are key to building a better encyclopedia, and I value the chance to learn and improve. Thank you again for bringing this to my attention, and I'll be more careful about vetting sources in the future. Please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help address this matter. Geraldshields11 (talk) 17:27, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

    Joe Manchin

    Today we have an unnecessary edit war on BLP outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin (and perhaps many other articles this morning) about the addition of infobox data which is factually incorrect at the time of insertion (, diff]). Nobody is arguing the data, just the timing of the edit. While User:Therequiembellishere is one person jumping the gun, they are a longtime contributor here. Their position should be taken in good faith, IMHO. Also in my opinion, these edits are technically BLP violations because they impart incorrect information. Under policy, such clear BLP violations must be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion (bolding from the original) by ANY editor. This sort of thing might lead to an edit war in which everybody is trying to do the right thing. Note: the page was correctly edited for the change; one click would have changed it at the proper time of transition.

    1. Does this sort of thing happen every opening of congress?
    2. Isn't this a potential future problem for BLPN, since edit wars on this are built-in to the apparent excitement of awaiting the actual moment of transition?
    3. I'm inclined towards timed page protection, but page protection is not normally done preemptively. Here's the page today literally under attack for BLP violations. If we know this is common for transitions of administration, isn't this an exception?

    While this noticeboard doesn't normally discuss policy, should we be aware of such disruption in advance? Making it harder for sooner editors like Therequiembellishere who feel... Well, I'll let them make their own affirmative position here if they wish. BusterD (talk) 14:34, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

    Page protections is the only way. IMHO, most editors who do these premature changes every two years, don't actually realize it's too early. They seem to assume once mid-night occurs, start updating. GoodDay (talk) 15:24, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

    I raise this issue not to cause a problem today. I'm not trying to unduly embarrass any editor for taking a position I don't agree with. On the other hand, we have established BLP policy the hard way through sometimes brutal disagreements about how to carefully calibrate opposing positions based on good faith argument. I trust the BLP policy because we earned it. We don't need to re-learn these lessons. But we could discuss how to proceed next time. BusterD (talk) 15:29, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
    In agreement. GoodDay (talk) 15:31, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
    Under policy, it would be within the responsibility of any editor to revert these edits and report the editor to this board. But for my starting this conversation, it would be within my remit to revert the edits, fully protect the page and warn Therequiembellishere (and others). I haven't done that. I want the discussion about what to do next time. BusterD (talk) 15:34, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
    I understand, this is for the next time around when terms end & begin. PS - I should note, that the premature changes in the BLPs tend to have a ripple effect on related pages. GoodDay (talk) 15:41, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

    I've said everything I want on this on Manchin's talk. It's just a lot of pedantry by a few editors with obsessive fealty and exactitude that doesn't meaningfully help anything or anyone, least of all a casual reader. Therequiembellishere (talk) 16:33, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

    Verifiability is not "pedantry". Members aren't sworn in until noon EST, correct? – Muboshgu (talk) 16:36, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
    I can understand changes being made about 1 or 2 hrs before the actual event, when dealing with so many bios. But 12 hrs before the event, is too early. GoodDay (talk) 16:41, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
    Obvious BLP violations are not pedantry. Those edits added provably incorrect information. Can User:Therequiembellishere provide a policy-based answer why those edits do not violate BLP guidance? This is just bad acting under the cover of labelling others. Do they not see that? BusterD (talk) 19:59, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

    Therequiembellishere's response here demonstrates we actually have a problem, at least with that user, whose reply here is non-responsive to the issue. BLP policy does indeed require obsessive fealty and exactitude, as long experience with this board has shown. As my OP suggested, any user might justifiably have reverted Therequiembellishere right into 3RR and immediate blocking, just by merely diligently following policy. Therequiembellishere might bookmark this thead for when it happens to them two years from now. I could have done it this morning, but instead chose to create this thread and invite the user to comment. Would preemptive full protection be a reasonable solution to such flippant disruption? BusterD (talk) 20:14, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

    I oppose pre-emptive full protection. I strongly support an immediate sitewide block of any repeat offenders, with the block to expire at noon Washington, DC time on the swearing in day. Cullen328 (talk) 21:51, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
    I'm with Therequiembellishere on this: a prediction, especially one based on clear US law, is not a false statement or a BLP violation. Joe Manchin's term does end on January 3rd, 2025, and that was still true on January 2nd, 2025. It's, in fact, been true for over a month now. The only way it could end on a different day would be if Joe Manchin had died before then, which would obviously be a BLP violation to assume.
    (Unlike Therequiembellishere I don't even think the opposition is pedantry. Pedants are technically correct; to say that the end of Joe Manchin's term was not January 3rd before January 3rd is not even technically correct. It's just false.) Loki (talk) 07:43, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
    IMO the issue is not the term ending time but the claim Joe Manchin served as senator etc when he was still serving as a senator at the time. Nil Einne (talk) 10:50, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
    For further clarity. I think our readers reasonably understand our articles might be outdated. So if the article says Joe Manchin is serving and his term ended a few hours ago or even a few days ago that's fine. I mean in other cases it's reasonable to expect them to even be weeks or months out of date. But if out article says Joe Manchin served, I think they reasonable would expect he is no longer serving. As I understand it, there's no more issue. But if this reoccurs, I'm not sure Cullen328's solution is correct. I mean if some admin is volunteering to mollycoddle each repeat offender then okay I guess. But otherwise the norm is we expect editors to obey our policy and guidelines by themselves without needing handholding in the form of continual blocks everytime something comes up to stop them. Therefore I'd suggest either an admin subject them to escalating blocks quickly leading up to an indefinite if they repeat perhaps under BLP or AP2; or we do it via community bans. While I'd personally be fine with a site ban, it might be more palatable to the rest of the community if we instead do it as a topic ban on making such changes. With a clear topic ban, hopefully an admin will be more willing to subject them to escalating blocks. Even if not, I think the community would be much more willing to siteban such editors if they repeat after a community topic ban. As a final comment, I also don't see why editor feels it's something so urgent that they need to do it 12 hours in advance. This almost seems one of those lame edits we sometimes get at the ANs resulting from the apparent desire of an editor to be first or get the credit so we have editors creating "drafts" with basically zero content long before there's anything to write about then some other editor is sick of this editor doing this and so ignores the draft and makes their own. Nil Einne (talk) 12:59, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
    Technically speaking, if you are still serving you also have served. So it's not technically speaking false, although this really is pedantry and I would not say it's the most true possible statement.
    I'm still not convinced it's a BLP violation, though. Loki (talk) 04:24, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    I think the argument is being made @LokiTheLiar:, that editing in someone is no longer holding an office, when they still are & somebody has assumed office, when they haven't yet, is problematic. GoodDay (talk) 16:24, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

    @BusterD: maybe a RFC or something is required, to establish how to handle future premature changes to such bios. GoodDay (talk) 22:31, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

    Serious BLP vios in Gambino crime family

    This article is riddled with serious BLP vios. I tried tagging them, but there are so many I would have to carpet bomb the page with CN tags. This page needs urgent attention from any editors with experience and/or sources pertaining to organized crime. -Ad Orientem (talk) 17:21, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

    P.S. I've taken a look at most of the articles on North American mafia groups and almost all have serious BLP issues. I've added "Category:Possibly living people" with its BLP Edit Notice to all of the pages excepting groups that have been defunct for more than thirty years. These pages are in rough shape and a lot of material needs to be either cited or deleted. -Ad Orientem (talk) 03:32, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

    Taylor Lorenz BLP issues and harassment of subject based on article contents

    The Taylor Lorenz article has an unusual history in the sense that the contents of the article have led to harassment of Lorenz in the past, or other issues impacting her financially.

    Most recently it was regarding her date of birth and Misplaced Pages choosing to use a date range, with the allegations being that it was Lorenz choosing to keep her birthdate off of the Internet or being deceitful.

    1. FreeBeacon
    2. TimesOfIndia
    3. Lorenz Substack
    4. SoapCentral
    5. RedState
    6. Lorenz BlueSky
    7. Twitchy
    8. FoxNews
    9. BlueSky
    10. FreeBeacon

    There have also seemingly been issues according to Lorenz with errors in the article causing her lost business opportunities See here

    "This insane 100% false story is affecting my brand deals and some partnership stuff I have in the works for 2025, so I really need it corrected ASAP!!!"

    An addition of a 'Harassment and coordinated attacks' section was added in August of last year, with additional information being added shortly after regarding a Twitter suspension. I moved the text around recently in an attempt at a more neutral article that was quickly reverted. A TalkPage discussion followed shortly after but there hasn't been a policy based consensus.

    My question- should we have a devoted harassment section included for someone who has been harassed based on her Misplaced Pages profile previously? It seems like WP:AVOIDVICTIM comes into play with directly focusing attention on her being a victim and could lead to further harassment by highlighting it with equal weight as her career section.

    Personally I think the material could be presented more neutrally per WP:STRUCTURE but wanted to get a wider opinion.

    There is also a discussion currently going on if we should include her year of birth here. Awshort (talk) 20:57, 5 January 2025 (UTC) 04:50, 6 January 2025 (UTC) Fixed incorrect diff

    @Awshort it looks like the paragraph below got moved past your signature, and therefor appears orphaned.
    Delectopierre (talk) 02:06, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
    Removing the harassment section furthers the narrative that there are no coordinated harassment campaigns against her, and acts to diminish the effect those coordinated campaigns have wrought upon her. Generally speaking, victims of harassment don't want what they've gone through to be diminished.
    I am unaware of any evidence that discussing harassment on wiki for her, or in general, leads to further harassment. If that evidence exists, I'd certainly be wiling to change my stance.
    Delectopierre (talk) 08:19, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    We don't take a stance on supporting a narrative for something - we neutrally present both sides of an argument based on their prevalence in reliable sources; nothing more and nothing less. Our only priority is making sure it's presented neutrally, above all other content policies. In essence, we don't take a side and if something reads as though it is biased to one side it should be rewritten.
    Regarding coordinated harassment - If an incident regarding a public figure is significant it will have received plenty of third party sources reporting on it. I spent a few hours looking over sources for anything mentioning her harassment being coordinated and third party coverage supporting it and came up almost empty on third party coverage. And the main source of her mentioning harassment was her ,while on her book tour.
    I did find that Lorenz mentioned being harassed in several deleted tweets. The only two sources I could find in support of anything involving the words "coordinated harassment campaign" or similar were from Lorenz discussing the Libs Of Tik Tok backlash (It’s eye opening to see how sophisticated & vicious these coordinated attacks have become.,
    1. IWMF organization post the day after the Carlson incident (Carlson’s commentary is a deliberate, deeply dangerous effort to mobilize harassment toward Lorenz. which included a quoted Tweet from Lorenz stating she had suffered from a smear campaign
    2. Media Manipulation brief by her friend Emily Dreyfuss Lorenz is a frequent target of coordinated harassment campaigns that include being swatted, stalked, which would be a WP:COISOURCE due to the friendship, and more than likely not considered a reliable source due to no fact checking on a brief or editorial oversight and a lot of it is opinion based.
    We present information neutrally and let readers come to their own conclusion. "The aim is to inform, not influence."
    Going by "we consider a viewpoint's prevalence in reliable sources, not its prevalence among Misplaced Pages editors or the general public." in WP:DUE, there doesn't seem to be support for her harassment being considered coordinated.
    You had previously listed sources in support of the above. I mentioned both IWMF and the Media Manipulation brief from your list above, but wanted to cover the other two as well.
    1. TheInformation link - No stranger to digital harassment, doxxing or the dangers of online celebrity, Lorenz Does not support the above.
    2. Forbes link - Right-Wing Figures Attack Journalist Taylor Lorenz For Revealing Creator Of ‘Libs Of TikTok’ Fails WP:RSHEADLINES.
    If you have other sources in support of it then I am open to reconsidering my position. My main concern is just presenting the text neutrally and if there could be further issues for the article subject that could arise from having a dedicated harassment section. It's a low possibility, but I also never thought I would see a range for a year of birth used to harass someone so that was a first.
    Awshort (talk) 02:12, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
    You asked a question
    My question- should we have a devoted harassment section included for someone who has been harassed based on her Misplaced Pages profile previously? It seems like WP:AVOIDVICTIMcomes into play with directly focusing attention on her being a victim and could lead to further harassment by highlighting it with equal weight as her career section.
    and I replied to it.
    Delectopierre (talk) 02:33, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
    I see that. I thought you had replied to work towards a policy based consensus since this was also in the above A TalkPage discussion followed shortly after but there hasn't been a policy based consensus., and since it was a section you added I also assumed you wanted to address the neutrality issues.
    Awshort (talk) 20:16, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
    Delectopierre I believe you meant your post, but I wasn't sure. I attempted a fix that looked good on the post preview but if this was not what you meant please feel free to revert my edit and accept my apologies.
    Awshort (talk) 01:51, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
    You're right. My mistake. That's what I get for editing late at night. Delectopierre (talk) 02:27, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

    Discussion on the scope of WP:BLPSPS

    There is a discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:Verifiability#Self-published claims about other living persons about the scope of WP:BLPSPS. -- Patar knight - /contributions 02:22, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    List of pornographic performers by decade

    List of pornographic performers by decade is a remarkable article in that it has existed for 20 years and yet, if I were to follow WP:BLPREMOVE to the letter right now, I would have to cut the article down to its first sentence, the section headings, and a single see-also. Saying "X is a pornographic performer" is, obviously, a contentious claim, and as such every entry needs its own citation; it's not enough to rely on the articles as their own de facto citations, as is the tolerated practice for noncontroversial lists like List of guitarists. This is all the more the case because the definition of "pornographic performer" is subjective. With help from Petscan, I've found the following people on the list who are not described in their articles as pornographic performers: Fiona Richmond, Amouranth, F1NN5TER, Kei Mizutani, Uta Erickson, Isabel Sarli, Fumio Watanabe, Louis Waldon, Nang Mwe San, Piri, Megan Barton-Hanson, Aella (writer). Many (all?) of them are sex workers of some sort, so in each case, there may be a reliable source that exists that calls them a pornographic performer, but without one, it's a flagrant BLP violation. And if it were just those, I'd remove them and be done with it, but even for the ones whose articles do call them pornographic performers, there's no guarantee of being right. I removed Miriam Rivera from the list after seeing that an IP had removed the mentions of porn in her article, which had indeed been sourced to a press release about a fictionalized depiction of her life. No, each of these entries needs an individual citation appearing on the list article so that the claims can be judged.

    So, there are about 650 entries, and we know at least some are questionable, and we cannot assume that any of the rest are correct. What do we do? Again, the letter-of-BLP answer here is to remove the unsourced items, but that would leave literally nothing. The only two citations in the whole thing are to search pages on two non-RS porn databases. So at that point we might as well apply WP:BLPDELETE. Another solution would be to find sources for, I don't know, two or three people in each heading, just so it's not empty, remove everything else, and stick {{incomplete list}} there. A third option is AfD. Does anyone have any ideas?

    P.S. I haven't even looked at other lists of pornographic performers. Are they all like this? -- Tamzin (they|xe|🤷) 05:01, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    I don't have a solution to this @Tamzin, but the first name I looked at was Isabel Sarli. Her article references her full frontal appearance and describes it as sexploitation. Sexploitation films are not pornographic films. I can't see any mention of pornographic acting in her article? This is a problem. Knitsey (talk) 05:11, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    Doing some spot-checking, Kōji Wakamatsu is described in his article as a director of pink films but not as an actor – and it does not seem as though pink films are necessarily pornographic; Harry S. Morgan is categorised as a porn actor but the text of the article does not seem to support this. Clearly there's a problem here. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 05:57, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    Hm, yes, per WP:BLP each LP on this list should have a decent ref (better than Internet Adult Film Database, see ), and it wouldn't hurt the others either. I'm slightly reminded of a complaint I made at Talk:Holocaust_denial/Archive_21#Notable_Holocaust_deniers. It's not the same, but it's still sensitive. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:26, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    Btw, per List of pornographic actors who appeared in mainstream films and List of actors in gay pornographic films, it seems they're not all like that, but List of British pornographic actors lists people without WP-articles, my knee-jerk reaction is that that's not good. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:35, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    List of British pornographic actors most seem to be referenced using "International Adult Film Database" which is user generated. Imdb for born actors. Knitsey (talk) 07:45, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    Talk:List_of_British_pornographic_actors#People_without_WP-articles. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:51, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    I'll be honest, I thought we'd dealt with this before and it was no longer a problem. I'm sure in previous discussions we're generally agrees such lists should only contain notable individuals with articles i.e. no black links or red links (if an editor believes someone is notable they need to create the article first). I thought we'd also agreed to strictly require inline citations when adding names regardless of what the individual articles say. I couldn't find many of the previous discussions though but did find we seem to have a lot more of these lists in the past. Nil Einne (talk) 09:48, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    I'm aware of a few circumstances in which pornographic actors faced serious obstacles in their lives after leaving the industry and tried hard to separate themselves from their prior career. I would hope, in these cases, we respect their wishes and just leave them off. Simonm223 (talk) 12:16, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    Depending on situation, we might or we might not. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:24, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    My main concern is for people who have explicitly expressed that they no longer want to be public people, being honest. Those who have struggled to transition to non-pornographic acting, music, etc. is less of my concern. Simonm223 (talk) 12:38, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    That's understandable but it runs into issues with WP:PUBLICFIGURE where editors think that once someone is a public figure, it is forever.
    Recently there was I believe the son of a lady who had appeared in Playboy a long time ago who had asked for her article to be removed on BLPN. The specifics that I remember are vague, but essentially she had been a Playmate one year and editors had built an article for her even though she was a relatively private person other than the fact she was in Playboy in the early 80's. The family member had suggested that the article basically loomed over her head and caused harm to her reputation since it was something she did once 30+ years ago and distanced herself from almost immediately. I can't say i disagree that in cases like that, there shouldn't be an article.
    Awshort (talk) 15:40, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    I wasn't aware of that specific case but that is precisely the sort of circumstance under which I think a private person's right to privacy should be weighed more important than Misplaced Pages completionism. Simonm223 (talk) 15:43, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    I'm reminded of Richard Desmond per . Other end of the scale, perhaps. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:49, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    Nil Einne You may be thinking of this discussion which you commented on.
    Awshort (talk) 16:13, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    I don't think it was really that, although I did forget about it so thanks for reminding me. One of the issues with that list is since it was such a high profile case I felt it likely there would at least be secondary source coverage, and also as pornographic appearances go, I feel being Playmate is a lot less controversial than other stuff; so while it was bad, I didn't feel it quite as severe as most of the other stuff we're doing or have been doing. I was thinking of older discussions probably especially the RfC below. Nil Einne (talk) 17:14, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    I don't know where to get sources for this. I would suggest doing as you say, and cutting every non-verifiable person from the page. Anyone interested can hunt down acceptable sources for each entry. GeogSage 01:49, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

    Given the lack of referencing and the entries included in error, pointed out above, then I would be in favour of removing every unreferenced entry on the list. If that leaves literally nothing, well - AFD. If somebody really wants this information, well, categories exist. Bastun 14:40, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    I would support this as well, and honestly would probably still vote to delete a list with only the referenced entries if it were brought at AfD. A list page doing the job of one or several category pages and nothing more has no purpose. Choucas Bleu 🐦‍⬛ 13:22, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
    Would a blank-and-soft-redirect to Category:Pornographic film actors be a good solution here? That way the list is still in the history for anyone who wants to restore it with references. The "by decade" might be misleading in that case, but we could first reverse the hard redirect from List of pornographic performers, which this probably should have been at anyways. Another option would be a list of lists at Lists of pornographic performers and redirecting there. -- Tamzin (they|xe|🤷) 18:06, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
    I think your first suggestion is a good idea, I'd support that for sure. Definitely less favorable to a list of lists though. Choucas Bleu 🐦‍⬛ 20:28, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
    • I knew we had a lengthy RfC/Discussion about this subject matter, it just took me a while to find it though – Unreferenced lists and porn stars RFC, and also this AfD as well. Discussions are ten years old, but I don't think anything in the lengthy close of the RfC has changed. I was one of the volunteers who helped add refs to this article → List of pornographic actors who appeared in mainstream films, which if I recall correctly, was the impetus for the RfC. Good luck, sourcing these types of lists are a massive chore. Isaidnoway (talk) 16:03, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
      RFC closer said in 2014:
      Q: Should all pre-existing lists of porn performers have a reliable source supporting each entry?
      A: The rough consensus below is that it's always more controversial to call someone a porn performer than to say they're engaged in most other professions. A reliable source should be added for every entry that's challenged or likely to be challenged. But as a concession to the practicalities, editors are asked not to go through the pre-existing lists making large-scale and unilateral challenges, as this will overwhelm the people who maintain these lists with work, and there is a legitimate concern that this is unfair. If you do intend to remove unsourced entries, please proceed at a reasonable, non-disruptive speed dealing with what you judge to be the highest-priority cases first. If you could easily source an entry yourself, then removing it as unsourced is rather unhelpful. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:21, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
      Well, removing ~650 entries after 10 years of the list's maintainers doing nothing to fix this would average out to, what, ~1.2 per week since that RfC? That seems like a reasonable, non-disruptive speed to me. Courtesy ping @S Marshall. -- Tamzin (they|xe|🤷) 16:50, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
      Yes, I do vaguely remember making that close ten years ago. I agree that it's appropriate to implement its outcome in full now.—S Marshall T/C 17:58, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
      I support that. GeogSage 01:51, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

    Based on discussion above, I have redirected the list to Category:Pornographic actors. This way, the content is still there in the history, and can be restored by any editor willing to take the time to dig up the sources. If anyone objects, I'm happy to argue the case at AfD. -- Tamzin (they|xe|🤷) 03:40, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

    Good enough. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:51, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
    For the interested, Talk:List_of_British_pornographic_actors#People_without_WP-articles is ongoing. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:52, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
    @Tamzin: Citations are a WP:SURMOUNTABLE issue. In 2018 (example here), every BLP entry required and had WP:RS citations. Editors at the time considered the requirement to be overkill, and a requirement for an existing WP article supported by good references was deemed sufficient. It was a compromise among editors. Does selectively restoring the sourced 2018 content and then re-adding male, non-binary and new female entries that can be sourced sound like a viable plan to you? • Gene93k (talk) 11:21, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
    Do you consider AVN (magazine) a good enough source in context? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:38, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
    AVN's newsroom content is considered reliable as noted at WP:RSPS. Caution must be applied in distinguishing hard news reporting from repackaged press releases. If an AVN citation is not good enough, other references that sustain notability for the existing stand-alone WP article can be brought in to overcome any BLP concerns. • Gene93k (talk) 11:53, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

    chew chin hin

    https://www.ttsh.com.sg/About-TTSH/TTSH-News/Pages/In-Loving-Memory-Prof-Chew-Chin-Hin.aspx

    Dr Chew Chin Hin died — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harrypttorfan (talkcontribs) 15:21, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    Thanks – I see you have already updated his article. Does anything more need to be done here? There's no need to discuss the deaths of every person who has an article on this noticeboard unless there's a particular issue. Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 16:11, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    Beyoncé

    Looks like Beyoncé fan club president is editing the article and 50.100.81.254 (talk) 10:48, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

    Hi, anon! Please talkpage your concerns. When you do, please state with specificity what's wrong with each edit and why (policies/guidelines). Your diffs, in light of the normal editing process, don't indicate a severe BLP violation or failure to find consensus on the talkpage. Cheers. JFHJr () 23:37, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
    They really could use some help......the article has been dominated by single purpose account for some time and their buddy. As mentioned longstanding problem Moxy🍁 17:58, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

    Bob Martinez

    There is a derogatory and malicious remark about Former Governor Bob Martinez's wife in his Wiki page biography. It's disgusting to say the least. Please fix this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.193.165.250 (talk) 17:05, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

    It has been removed. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:12, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

    Kith Meng

    This person's Misplaced Pages page is being continually changed to remove any mentions of well-documented accusations against him, often by Misplaced Pages accounts that are named after his companies. Now somebody who seems to be a bit more knowledgeable about Misplaced Pages has removed all of the references to crime and corruption, despite them being widely reported on by the press, claiming that it violates Misplaced Pages's policies to mention any accusations if they haven't been proven in court. But many of the incidents mentioned are verifiable, even if he wasn't actually convicted of a crime over them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Khatix (talkcontribs) 07:37, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    FYI, this is the disputed edit by Georgeee101 who raised BLPCRIME. I guess the question is whether Meng is a WP:PUBLICFIGURE for the allegations to be reinstated. That could be done through a RfC. Morbidthoughts (talk) 22:21, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
    I have to be honest, I don't know what that means. I am not a big Wikipedian, I just do edits to articles about Cambodia. Kith Meng is pretty notorious here, there are countless independent articles about some of his antics. But I noticed that his Misplaced Pages page kept getting updated by somebody whose username was the name of one of his companies. I kept undoing them, which wasn't a big deal because they were mostly unsourced, written in poor English. But these new edits are also sanitizing his Misplaced Pages page, removing all of the corruption and scandals and reading like one of his publicity announcements, but this time by somebody who seems to know what they're doing. clicking undo didn't do anything. I assume he hired a specialist. Khatix (talk) 14:18, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
    It means you should start a discussion on the talk page of the article on whether the allegations should be included given the available sources that are reporting on them. If there is not enough participation, you can notify Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Cambodia or request a WP:RfC for outside comment. You should also assume good faith on the intentions of other editors and not presume that they are undisclosed paid editors. Morbidthoughts (talk) 22:27, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
    Thanks, I started a discussion and included some different sources from the different media outlets. If nobody responds for awhile, is it alright for me to unilaterally edit it again? I am not sure what the rules are for trying to settle these sorts of disagreements. I used to always change it back when the account removing the corruption allegations was openly his PR team, but I am a bit nervous about being seen as a vandal if I undo it now that it's somebody else. Khatix (talk) 11:26, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
    Now that it's been disputed under BLP grounds, you must gain consensus before reinstating them. That is why I encourage you to notify Wikiproject Cambodia of the discussion and then a RfC to gather more participation. Morbidthoughts (talk) 21:43, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

    Sami Zayn

    Personal life section frequently vandalized with biased, possibly libelous pro-Israel propaganda citing biased sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.223.20.111 (talk) 12:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    ScottishFinnishRadish blocked Jayadwaita for a week. Thank you SFR! I'll also watch the page for future unconstructive edits. Cheers! JFHJr () 00:16, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

    Matthew Parish V

    The subject of this article is a lawyer who has brought legal actions against Misplaced Pages in the past. In June 2018 a rewrite of the article removed significant promotional material and added information on Mr. Parish's then-ongoing legal troubles. An editor claiming to be the subject deleted the legal section entirely, which led to a second thread here and I assume a thorough verification of the material in the article. In 2021 the creator of the article, Pandypandy, raised another thread here about defamatory material in the article; they were subsequently blocked for COI and suspected UPE editing, making legal threats, and logged-out sockpuppetry. The same editor also created Draft:Kuwaiti videos affair, which is the dispute in which Mr. Parish is accused of fraudulent arbitration as described in the biography's legal issues section.

    In 2023 a third BLPN thread was raised on behalf of WMF Legal, who requested that editors review the article in light of multiple requests from Mr. Parish to delete it. The BLPN discussion led to the AFD linked above, which closed as no consensus to delete. In the year-and-a-bit since, numerous IP editors and sockpuppets have edited the article to remove selected information from the legal section, or have removed it all at once, while others have added new contentious information which mostly has been removed by more experienced editors. I have semiprotected the page indefinitely.

    I would like to request that editors once again review the current article for accuracy, and verify that the information in the article is properly cited to and accurately reflects reliable sources. Some editors in the AFD suggested that perhaps the video affair is notable but the bio is BLP1E, so I'm going to restore the draft so it can be reviewed as well. Ivanvector (/Edits) 16:10, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Pronouns

    A request for assistance: The subject of the article Karen Yeats asked me about the best way to update their article to reflect the fact that they use they/them pronouns. This is clearly attested to on their personal webpage and also can be seen e.g. in (a recent biographical blurb for an invited presentation). Two questions:

    1. Is this sourcing sufficient to make the change? (I think yes but I don't edit biographies much so would appreciate confirmation.)
    2. Is it normal, when making such a change, to leave a comment in the article (either text or a footnote) indicating that the subject uses they/them? Or just to write it that way and expect that readers can work it out?

    Thanks, JBL (talk) 18:14, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Standard practice is that WP:ABOUTSELF sources are adequate for pronouns, except in rare cases where there's reason to doubt someone's sincerity. Usually, someone's pronouns bear mention in a personal life section, same as other gender and sexuality things. Whether to include an explanatory note on first reference is a matter of stylistic discretion; personally, having written a few articles on nonbinary people, I use an {{efn}} if I expect it to confuse readers (either they/them or surprising binary pronouns like with F1NN5TER). -- Tamzin (they|xe|🤷) 18:23, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
    Thanks very much, Tamzin. Since there is no personal life section of this bio and to stave off possible confusion, I went with an efn; how does look to you? --JBL (talk) 18:42, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
    Looks good! Check out {{pronoun pair}} if you want to be pedantic about italics and kerning. -- Tamzin (they|xe|🤷) 18:55, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Uncontentious but still poorly/not sourced info about a living person

    On Chetan Bhagat#author's page (since I can't copy and paste the message, his article is short and you can find the parts on there, it's under the "author" section of career) there are areas where it says "citation needed", but I don't think the material is contentious. Do I still need to remove the material ASAP? Wikieditor662 (talk) 06:30, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

    I am personally very strict with unsourced content, regardless of it being contentious or not. Generally, however, if the content has been tagged for a reasonable time and remains unsourced, feel free to remove. GiantSnowman 10:47, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
    Thanks, but how do I find out how long it's been up for, and what counts as a "reasonable time"? Wikieditor662 (talk) 21:52, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
    Edit the article, and you will see the date tag - on Chetan Bhagat they are October 2024, so 3 months. Reasonable time is a judgement call. GiantSnowman 22:05, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
    Is there at least a rough range for what should count as reasonable time? Weeks? Months? Years? Wikieditor662 (talk) 22:29, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
    42 seconds. Or days. YMMV. JFHJr () 23:22, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
    For me, how long to wait to remove depends on the type of content. For example, clearly promotional unsourced content I may just remove without tagging, but other content I may never remove regardless of how long it's been tagged. In this particular article, I would be inclined to remove a sentence such as "It became India's fastest-selling book of its time" pretty quickly. However, a sentence such as "The story was adapted by film director Rajkumar Hirani into a film named 3 Idiots starring Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, and Kareena Kapoor" with blue wikilinks to the film and the actors is likely something I would never remove unless it appeared false since it is not a lot more effort to go the wikilinked page and copy a citation for something as basic as that information. – notwally (talk) 00:04, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
    Alright, I removed the sentence about it being one of India's fastest selling books of all time. Wikieditor662 (talk) 00:09, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
    • Yes this article is heavily unsourced, however, I don't see anything harmful here thus I think "citation needed" tags for sometime will be fine before cleanup of unsourced information. Devopam (talk) 04:27, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

    Jim Justice

    In relation to the above discussion about Joe Manchin, an editor (@Eoqkr75:) keeps putting in that Jim Justice is now a US Senator. Justice doesn't assume his Senate seat until January 14, 2025. GoodDay (talk) 14:54, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

    Scott Ritter Biography - Noncompliance with MOS and BLP Guidelines

    I am requesting approval to fix issues in the Scott Ritter article regarding the description of his convictions. The article states in its second sentence: He is a convicted child sex offender. Labeling Ritter as a "child sex offender" carries moral judgment and appears to be name-calling, which the MOS explicitly warns against. According to MOS:CONVICTEDFELON: Labels such as "convicted sex offender" are imprecise and could be construed as name-calling or a moral judgement. It is better to describe the specific crime itself. The current wording fails to comply with this guideline.

    2) Undue Weight: MOS:CONVICTEDFELON states that legal issues should only be highlighted in the lead if central to a person’s notability, which is not the case with Ritter's convictions. His notable career as a UN weapons inspector and outspoken critic of the Iraq War is the basis for his fame, not his convictions. Placing this legal information in the second sentence gives it undue prominence, overshadowing his primary achievements. Convictions for online communications with an undercover officer are not what make Ritter notable, as many non-notable individuals face similar charges and nobody is writing their Misplaced Pages bios.

    3) Imprecision: The term child sex offender in the Ritter bio links to the article for child sexual abuse, which that article defines as a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation, whereas Ritter's convictions involved contact with an adult undercover police officer posing as a minor. This distinction is significant and misrepresented by the current label.

    To bring the article in line with Misplaced Pages's policies, I propose we replace He is a convicted child sex offender with: In 2011, Ritter was convicted of several criminal offenses following an undercover sting operation, during which he engaged in sexually explicit online communications with a police officer posing as a minor. This phrasing avoids imprecise labeling and provides accurate context.

    Placement Adjustment: Move this information to a "Legal issues" or "Controversies" section later in the article, ensuring balance and compliance with the undue weight guideline. However, since this information is already covered in the body, we should simply remove the statement from the first paragraph, or move it down to the bottom of the second paragraph.

    I attempted to edit the article to reflect these changes, but my edits were reverted with the explanation that "there was consensus found to include this in the lead." However, no justification was provided for how the current wording and placement comply with MOS and BLP policies. I raised my concerns on the article's Talk Page, but they have not been addressed. Lardlegwarmers (talk) 19:24, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

    I don't think "convicted sex offender" is particularly useful in a lead given the breadth of its meaning, and I think it makes far more sense to describe the conviction. The current lead does seem to violate the MOS guideline. – notwally (talk) 19:37, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
    I've changed this per the suggestion. Hopefully the problem is solved. Hemiauchenia (talk) 21:03, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
    An editor just reverted the changes without discussion () after I had already made an article talk page comment about this BLPN topic and the violation of MOS policies (). Lardlegwarmers (talk) 21:59, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
    We're instructed not to make stand alone controversies sections etc so that would be the opposite of balance and compliance with the undue weight guideline unless I'm missing something here. Do you mean as a seperate section of the lead? Horse Eye's Back (talk) 01:01, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
    Doing like it was in this diff: would be good; a more accurate sentence, at the bottom of the lead, that gives details about the conviction. Lardlegwarmers (talk) 01:20, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
    Yes that is preferable, in the lead but not in the first sentence. I think we could say less than that though. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 18:02, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
    Please note that That One Editor has once again reverted it to being the less-detailed version in the first paragraph (after having been stymied on a campaign to add unsourced or miss-sourced material to the full sentence.) Can we get more hands on this? -- Nat Gertler (talk) 20:05, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
    @Horse Eye's Back Would you like to propose some language? The key is that we should briefly but accurately state the facts of his conviction instead of labeling his person as such. It seems notable that the convictions resulted from a sting operation (versus contact with an actual minor). Lardlegwarmers (talk) 01:41, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
    How about "In 2011, Ritter was convicted of criminal offenses after engaging in sexually explicit online communications with a police officer posing as a minor." Pretty close to OP's proffer but a little shorter. JFHJr () 01:59, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
    I'm not sure it should be in the lead at all as it doesn't seem like the thing that made him notable. However, if he is only notable for the combination of his offense plus his other work then the lead should make that clear. As a stand alone fact it should either be at the end of the lead or not at all. Springee (talk) 21:20, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
    He is only notable for his other career activities. The criminal offenses by themselves fail notability. Lardlegwarmers (talk) 05:45, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

    Peter Berg

    There seems to be some editing back and forth going on in the Personal Life section re: Caitlyn Jenner controversy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fearlessfool (talkcontribs) 01:53, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

    What's the back and forth? There don't seem to be recent back and forth problems in the edit history. Do you mean WP:UNDUE discussion in the prose? Please feel free to voice your concern on the article talkpage before escalating here. This is a forum for when consensus isn't apparent or serious BLP violations occur. JFHJr () 03:07, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
    I don't see any back and forth either, but in my view, using WP:TMZ as the sole source for that paragraph is a BLPVIO. Isaidnoway (talk) 08:45, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

    Sandra Kälin

    This article and its references are a combination of two different people (de:Sandra Kälin to see the german article for both), how should this be best addressed? Split and 2 Stubs? Nobody (talk) 09:40, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

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