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Semi-protected edit request on 2 August 2018
Encyclopedic content must be verifiable. The line "Soon after being hired... was found to have posted a number of... racist messages directed at white people," is not in two important ways. First, it uses the word "found," which suggests a mainstream authority, preferably a scientific one. Second, ThePostOnline is an explicitly right-wing news site, according to wikipedia's own article on it, and therefore not a reliable source. I suggest one of three courses of action:
- Add a "needs a better source" tag to the citation.
- Change the line to something like: "Jeong has been accused of posting a number of messages on social media platform Twitter that are racist, hateful, violent, and aggressive."
- Remove the line entirely.
JeanLackE (talk) 13:45, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
- Done per 3. Innisfree987 (talk) 15:19, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
Offsite efforts
Since the subject joined the NYT, offsite efforts from conspiracy theorists and their ilk to cherry pick social media quotes have begun. Examples:
Looking at the history page this has already led to some bad faith edits to push an agenda.Citing (talk) 14:58, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
Here are her tweets. Decide for yourself whether it's appropriate behaviour or plain old racism.
- https://archive.fo/byEMf
- https://archive.fo/yXccF
- https://archive.fo/3JXbr
- https://archive.fo/QyWKK
- https://archive.fo/CIlmU
- https://archive.fo/HTSXh
- https://archive.fo/HYPOI
- https://archive.fo/BmBJ0
I guess it needs no "conspiracy theorists" to condemn such behaviour.