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Talk:Marjorie Taylor Greene

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Remove or loosen 1RR Consensus Required

It's been over a year since this arbitration remedy was applied, it's election year, and given the edit history it seems that 1RR consensus required arbitration remedy has had significant chilling effects on this articles editorial activity. Would replacing such restrictions with BRD or 3RR enforcements be more appropriate? Is it normal for restrictive arbitration remedies to remain indefinitely on BLPs? Kcmastrpc (talk) 12:50, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There doesn't appear to be 1RR on this page? There's a "don't re-revert without consensus on the talk page", which I think is more than apt given the contentious nature of the article and the previous issues that've risen with it. ser! 13:08, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, you're correct, after looking at the arbitration discussion it's clear to me now that there's a difference. Kcmastrpc (talk) 13:16, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Why remove it? Slatersteven (talk) 13:09, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I believe I mentioned some reasoning above, page edit activity has been reduced significantly since the introduction of the restrictions, and it's still unclear to me as to whether such restrictions remaining indefinitely are the norm. Kcmastrpc (talk) 13:12, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well as it has seen a reduction, its means its working as intended, that is not a reason to remove it, and it not being usual is also not really a very good reason (also there are other pages where this is also the case, any way). Slatersteven (talk) 13:19, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't necessarily believe reducing the editorial activity on a BLP is a good thing, or requiring lengthy consensus gaining discussions being required for every change that someone happens to disagree with (which, fwiw, violates the spirit of WP:ONUS). However, I haven't tested this theory, I believe this article has a lot of WP:TRIVIA and should be cleaned up, but with such restrictions in place what is stopping someone from just reverting the change and invoking the remedy? Kcmastrpc (talk) 13:23, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It was imposed to stop edit warring, I see no reason to assume it will not start up again if it is removed or weakened, she still remains highly controversial. Slatersteven (talk) 10:25, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Far-right label in first sentence.

@Jeppiz @Slatersteven @Ser! Pinging relevant parties.

It does not matter if her being far-right is "well sourced"; it should not be in the first sentence. I have read a lot of politician's articles and I have never seen their political leaning in the first sentence. Barack Obama and Donald Trump's pages don't call them centrists in the first sentence. There is no reason of labelling her as far-right in the first-sentence unless you would like to discredit her immediately, which is against Wikipedia policy. Alexysun (talk) 19:28, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I thought the consensus was that we do not call her far-right, but just described as far-right. But it has been a while. Slatersteven (talk) 19:32, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If there is a consensus, it should be easy to find on this talk page or its archives. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:37, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Special:Diff/1214563816 was (reinstated?) in March 2024 by @Ser!. I don't recall there ever being a formal RfC, but at this point, I'm of the opinion that putting labels like "far-left" or "far-right" in the opening sentence of BLPs is almost no different than asserting someone is a Communist or a Nazi. Kcmastrpc (talk) 19:40, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The "far-right" label has no less than eleven reliable sources, and frankly you could find dozens, if not hundreds, more as well. Or alternatively, just read the article. I am not a massive fan of labelling people as "far-right" or "far-left", but with a small minority of people you simply have to call a spade a spade. Black Kite (talk) 19:45, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have to agree with you here; as far as I can tell, Greene has never publicly contested this label either. Kcmastrpc (talk) 19:49, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You'd be correct that there was no RfC held (though there were separate ones on "conspiracy theorist" and "extremist conspiracy theories"), but the great deal of established editors responding to edit requests demanding its removal formed a pretty strong consensus for it. ser! 19:50, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
KC, There have been millions of communists and Nazis over the years. Those adjectives exist for the purpose of applying them to their associated objects. × SPECIFICO talk 18:52, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
When has anyone called Obama or Trump a "centrist"? Why do you assume that using a well-sourced label is "discrediting"? – Muboshgu (talk) 19:34, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Donald Trump and Barack Obama are notable for the office they held. MTG is notable for the political positions she espouses, those being far-right ones, and that being a descriptor that's near universally used in talking about her in reliable sources. ser! 19:50, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In order to put it in the lead, there is a requirement not only to show sources, but to show that is how she is typically described in reliable sources. TFD (talk) 14:14, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MTG is best known for being a far-right politician, and we have tons of reliable sources describing her as far-right. Outside of the US, at least, MTG is only known for her far-right politics. Jeppiz (talk) 20:45, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The biggest issue I have with modern news outlets punting around the term far-right is that it means something entirely different in modern context than it has historically. I don't consider MTG a Nazi, but the captioned image on the above wiki-linked article has people literally holding a Nazi flag, a Confederate flag and a Gadsden flag, all of which represent vastly different political movements across the past 250 years (and only one of which I agree with, and that'd be the latter). Kcmastrpc (talk) 14:44, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Let's take this subtext from Far-right_politics#United_States as an example, it's really difficult for me to find examples of MTG espousing some of the more extreme rhetorics represented in this text. However, RS says she's far-right, so I guess she is? Kcmastrpc (talk) 14:48, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good point. What shall be done then? Alexysun (talk) 06:30, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Alexysun: This song and dance has been done a million times over the last three years since I reviewed it, and the result is always the same: Marjorie Taylor Greene is quite obviously far-right; there are dozens upon hundreds of highly reliable sources to pull from calling her far-right time and time again published over her entire tenure as a congresswoman; there is no dispute among reliable sources that she is far-right; and that piece of information should be in the lead on the grounds that it's one of the two most notable things about her (the other being that she's a sitting representative) and that readers would be done a disservice by not being given upfront that piece of context whose relevance is omnipresent in almost every aspect of Greene's coverage in reliable sources. Ser! is unambiguously correct here, and Wikipedia's ability to faithfully summarize reliable sources should not be impaired by what's essentially a watering-down for the appeasement of an audience who would hate reliably sourced coverage of Greene no matter what. The consensus built up over three years has been that "far-right" is fully appropriate both as a label and as a part of the first sentence. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 20:17, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This type of claim should be sourced to political science or sociology experts, for example people who have PhDs, teach college courses and are published in academic journals, not people with BAs in journalism. I notice that a lot of news sources last night referred to the Democrats as "the Left," but I wouldn't describe Kamala Harris as left-wing, unless I was writing Republican propaganda. TFD (talk) 15:59, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

weather

@Spinney Hill The statement that its not clear what is meant is in the very headline of the source. Anotherperson123 (talk) 22:32, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes . She doesn't say who controls the weather. That may not be clear, but she is saying someone can, which is plainly ridiculous. The second source suggests who she might mean, which is even more ridiculous if that is what she should mean.. Spinney Hill (talk) 08:00, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure what you're trying to say. We could put "It's not clear who she meant", if the previous wording is in question. This is definitely stated in the source. Anotherperson123 (talk) 01:15, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]