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- Noam Cohen (October 26, 2020). "Wikipedia's Plan to Resist Election Day Misinformation". Wired .
- Arno Rosenfeld (April 8, 2021). "ADL may have violated Wikipedia rules — editing its own entries". The Forward.
Many of the edits focused on the ADL's research into domestic extremism, including contributions to the articles on the QAnon conspiracy theory, the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and the far-right militia group the Three Perecenters.
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- Result: Nearly a month has passed with no efforts made to address these issues. Bgsu98 (Talk) 01:43, 16 December 2025 (UTC) Reply
The article is quite large and goes into unnecessary detail. For example, "Republican individuals and organizations" is much too detailed and the article doesn't need to describe how several Republicans have responded: this information can be removed or spun out. The "Demographics" section should be updated with the latest figures, and older statistics removed or summarised more effectively. There are some uncited statements in the article. Z1720 (talk) 17:42, 22 November 2025 (UTC) Reply
- Additionally, there are quite a lot of citations to less-than-ideal sources like post-2013 newsweek and Business Insider, the Daily Beast, and some to the decidely non-RS Raw Story and International Business Times. Also Rolling Stone on politics, which it is unreliable for. The Daily Beast/Newsweek/BI can be justified sometimes but in such a politically fraught topic with so much writing about it I don't see why they can't be replaced. Raw Story and IBT should just be removed. We are citing Frontiers as well, which is... eh.... Also some of the sources in the bibliography aren't actually cited. Generally this article overrelies on news sources for the depth of scholarship on the topic. PARAKANYAA (talk) 17:57, 22 November 2025 (UTC) Reply
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Should the article summary now be in the past tense given that Qanon is not really a live phenomena any more? Shimbo (talk) 10:07, 27 July 2026 (UTC) Reply
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