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A news item involving Evika Siliņa was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 17 September 2023.

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Maiden name

Is her maiden name public knowledge? I haven't found it mentioned anywhere, which is surprising. 98.170.164.88 (talk) 03:37, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dirty picture

If you go with your mouse arrow over her name on the Wikipedia main page, you see a picture of a vagina with a sex toy in it. Can somebody please edit that? 2001:1C02:1E1A:4500:8CAB:AAFC:58F:F67D (talk) 09:53, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Still not fixed! Please stop this.--91.221.59.22 (talk) 10:04, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Two days later and still not rectified! This is why no one takes Wikipedia seriously. 64.40.242.214 (talk) 18:14, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Actually what happened is that the article was vandalized multiple times (I guess by the same person). In each instance it has been quickly reverted. See the page history. If the image lingered longer it may be due to caching. 98.170.164.88 (talk) 23:09, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Birth citation

User:Mewulwe: I noticed that [citation needed] was now present in the sentence about her birthplace and birthdate, and assumed the references had just gotten lost accidentally somewhere along the way and went to restore them. But then I checked the page history and saw you had intentionally removed the citations about her date and place of birth, replacing them with {{fact}}. [1] The iem.gov.lv source is very clear about the date and says nothing about the place. The Die Presse article gives both. Neither of them are inaccessible as far as I can tell, and both provide archive URLs in any case.

Now if you're claiming that the Die Presse article possibly got that information from Wikipedia ("circular"), I think you may be right as I don't think they would have inside info about her birth. I'll look for other sources and if I can't find anything will restore the tag, or maybe {{better source needed}} is appropriate here. 98.170.164.88 (talk) 10:17, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm inclined to agree with the skepticism about Riga being her place of birth. I tried searching in both Latvian and Russian, and came up short (the only sources I found felt less reliable than the German one, e.g., the Ukrainian website 'Liga'). For example, this source only says she was born in the Latvian SSR, but doesn't give a municipality. I'm restoring the tag, and am almost tempted to delete the claim entirely so the possibly wrong (but eminently plausible) info doesn't spread further, e.g. to other media outlets.

The claim was originally added to the infobox in this anonymous edit from August with no sourcing. The Latvian Wikipedia article doesn't/didn't have a birth place included in the infobox, only a place of current residence; I wonder if the anonymous editor may have confused the two. 98.170.164.88 (talk) 10:54, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

User:Y, I did exactly the same thing you did earlier today before undoing myself but I figured you may want to see this discussion. The Die Presse citation is a little dubious for possible citogenesis reasons - it is strange that an Austrian newspaper would know her place of birth when Latvian-language and Russian-language sources from the region apparently never mention it, and the information was added with no source on Wikipedia before the article was published in Die Presse. 98.170.164.88 (talk) 17:11, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I see. I don’t feel qualified to assess the likelihood that the Austrian newspaper is getting things wrong, so I’m just taking it at face value. If anyone has a better idea, please feel free to fix. -- Y not? 11:10, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW on lv. they’ve got Riga in the infobox. I don’t see a cite though -- Y not? 11:13, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

User:Y: Latvian Wikipedia has it as the place where she lives, not where she was born. If you don't know Latvian (or Lithuanian, which uses similar words but with "g" instead of "dz") it would be easy to assume the verbs "dzimt" (to be born) and "dzīvot" (to live) were the same thing, but they aren't, which is one way this claim could have originated. True, they don't cite their claim either way, but I take more issue with the place of birth claim. It takes me only a minute to find sources that say she lives in Riga, e.g. [2], [3]. It's clear that this isn't necessarily the same as place of birth as e.g. Kariņš's equivalent page lists Riga, but he was born in the USA.

Still this could amount to nothing as it's very plausible she was in fact born in Riga as many Latvian politicians are, I'm just not sure we have any reliable source to definitively claim that. 98.170.164.88 (talk) 17:36, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

oops sorry, my Latvian is rusty :) -- Y not? 13:13, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]