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September 8

Someone has hacked Wikipedia for political reasons

On the Larry Elder#Radio page, Someone has altered the page to make it into a political hack job against California governor hopeful Larry Elder. Lying, lying by intentional omission, is supposedly not what Wikipedia is all about. It's time to remove that page and find out who did this.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2d80:f08a:7c00:8dbe:d3be:6117:af10 (talk • contribs)

If you have reliable sources that show the information in that section to be false, you should raise the issue at the article talk page, Talk:Larry Elder. --Jayron 32 18:23, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A political hack job against a political hack^{[citation needed]}? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:40, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Information that does not comply with our BLP policy, whether true or not, may be summarily removed. However, if the problem is (as alleged) lying by intentional omission, the remaining information may be all unproblematic. But here is not the place to discuss problems with the article. I assume that in the sentence "It's time to remove that page", the term "page" refers to the section Larry Elder § Radio and not to the whole article Larry Elder. Requests for deleting the whole article should go to Wikipedia:Requests for deletion. --Lambiam 09:15, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion Re donations

I have auto-donated monthly for several years, and when asked during your fund drives to donate there is no box to check that I already donate!! So I either have to ignore the plea or check no or maybe later, all of which are unacceptable to me. So please add a box for those who are already passionate to keep wiki free! -- 184.190.170.25

How would the system know who you are? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:38, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you create an account then you can disable fundraising banners at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-centralnotice-banners. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:18, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest you also familiarize yourself with Wikimedia_Foundation#Finances.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:37, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think this question has come up before, in the ref desks too. The advice is always the same: "create an account." That's usually when the conversation stops. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:29, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]