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Anti-Racism and WMUG

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Hi Susan,

I would like to discuss this with you off wiki. DM me at @voxpopulare and I will give you my email address so we can communicate in more detail in a more private manner before communicating publicly.

RachelWex

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The Editor's Barnstar
Kindred spirits we are, in at least one way. We understand what a biography is. Good work on Early life so far, keep it coming. It was long overdue. You have a rare talent for weaving a seamless and coherent narrative from multiple sources. I believe this is the second barnstar I've been bothered to give in about five years. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 16:01, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Why thank you, Mandruss. Much appreciated. -SusanLesch (talk) 16:27, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply] I can hear a few editors gritting their teeth because you reported that he was an "excellent" first baseman. IRRELEVANT! UNDUE!, they are barely able to contain themselves. Too bad. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 17:05, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply] That was pretty much unanimous among sources. -SusanLesch (talk) 21:34, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply] I can't revert stuff like this per the process rules. Your edit was the B, his was the R. Take things like this to talk and I'll support you there. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 18:05, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Ambiguity fixed.[1] ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 02:53, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Updated estimate of deaths from the dismantling of USAID

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I don't know whether you'd still like the Donald Trump article to include an estimate of deaths from his dismantling of USAID, but here's reporting with a recent estimate. I don't know that this specific estimate has any broader coverage than earlier estimates, but there have been other reports about the growing estimates over time (e.g., this late May reporting from the NYT). The impact counter has also been expanded to model deaths from other causes. FactOrOpinion (talk) 22:55, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, FactOrOpinion. Seems like I read that NYT article in May, and it's even sadder today with Musk's pending salary increase. I'm afraid the tracker was deemed unacceptable the last time I tried to add it, and NYT uses it, too. I can't fight for it. I think a death count per se has been omitted. As you may know, every word, every sentence is a war in the Donald Trump article. -SusanLesch (talk) 00:56, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Susan. I don't know if this will interest you, but the abuse of .gov primary sourcing to push whitewashing, historical revisionism, and conspiracy theories into our health (CDC, vaccines, etc.) and political (Trump-Russia nexus) articles is a growing problem. This has inspired me to begin development of a WikiProject, and I'd like you to take a look and join if you feel it has some merit. I have little experience with such projects, so experienced eyes are necessary.

There is a clear difference between pre-MAGA and current .gov content, and older, more reliable, .gov pages are disappearing and being replaced with misinformation and disinformation. If editors do not learn to factor this into their thinking, then we've got a serious problem that will make Wikipedia a very unreliable source of information. We should not be laundering misinformation.

See the talk page at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Valjean/WikiProjectGSC

WikiProject U.S. Government Source Context is a WikiProject focused on improving how editors evaluate and contextualize United States government (.gov) sources. While such sources are often treated as presumptively reliable, the project emphasizes that their reliability can vary depending on political influence, authorship, institutional role, and purpose. Like other institutional sources, United States government sources are not inherently immune from the dissemination of misinformation or disinformation when content is shaped by political control or advocacy.

Valjean (talk) (PING me) 17:57, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Valjean, count me in. I can't promise much time or participation so please ping me for !votes etc. I wish there was a good way to shorten the name but I haven't found it. I only know the Internet Archive and none of the other archive sites. If IA gets in trouble (takeover like the Institute of Peace or the Kennedy Center) then we're in deep trouble. WikiProject Medicine might be interested—they developed WP:MEDRS. I'd ping SandyGeorgia even though she's retired, and WhatamIdoing. Here in California, the government hired Susan Monarez and Debra Houry, the CDC doctors who left. They will be a good source going forward. Thank you for the invitation. -SusanLesch (talk) 15:42, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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