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Why isn't X on the list yet? Have you all been living under a rock? LittleFriendUwU (talk) 09:46, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Can you find a good source link to put it in there? Wikipedia runs on citations. 165.23.203.13 (talk) 14:34, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I did the work and found some citations, so I've added it. 165.23.203.13 (talk) 16:28, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It doesn't work that way. It is not enough to find some citations from journalists. Just because one or two journalists wrote articles and made statements doesn't mean that we now have an **established fact** that we can present as such in a WP article.
No matter the topic or the opinion, you will always find a citation for it and **also a citation for the opposite**. What a WP article needs in order to present something as fact is a general concensus among society and/or science. ʘχ (talk) 09:15, 27 April 2024 (UTC) corrected spelling ʘχ (talk) 09:16, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Is that not kind of how it works? The verifiability policy is just that contentious material needs to be cited to a reliable source, and news articles can be that. If we needed enough sources to establish a definite global consensus for everything, I can't imagine we'd ever get much done. Though in this case we'd probably want more than just a couple articles from the same outlet: surprising or "exceptional" claims do demand a higher bar for sourcing. twotwos (talk) 12:24, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It is how it works. I have added an additional source anyway. The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism appears to be reliable and has obvious topic expertise. Grayfell (talk) 20:02, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If you want to dispute a fact reported in a RS, you at minimum need sourcing in a source as reliable stating the opposite. Simply stating Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. and deleting won't fly. MrOllie (talk) 20:09, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I find the inclusion of X on this list problematic. It is a case of "one of these is not like the others" and to assert otherwise, I find irresponsible. Bgregz (talk) 02:19, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User Mstf221 apparently decided that a reputable newspaper and the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism were unreliable sources and removed X from the list. Does that indicate that this might be something that requires a vote or escalation? I'm not super familiar with WP policies. 165.23.205.95 (talk) 18:56, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre?

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Type Company Citations Active
Operating system Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre Yes

Hyperbola is a Linux distribution that aims to "evade bloat, spyware, and non-free software as much as possible", possibly making it a perfect escape for alt-rightists who want to defend their ideologies from even the most hidden government surveillance and censorship. Does it fit here, or not? 67.209.129.189 (talk) 17:44, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Speculation by Wikipedia editors (indicated by the word "possibly") has no place in any article. Unless you can find a reliable source that documents alt-right usage of the Hyperbola Linux distribution for this purpose, there isn't a reason to mention it in this article. ~Anachronist (talk) 19:44, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
So any software platform that attempts to evade "government surveillance and censorship" is going to be demonized on this article now? 24.230.161.142 (talk) 19:00, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Where is any software being demonized? The article doesn't even mention Hyperbola. The original question asked whether a speculative sentence belonged in the article. It does not. Your followup question is a non-sequitur. ~Anachronist (talk) 00:28, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]