Talk:truther

RFC discussion: March–May 2018

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truther

This page is out of control. Could someone with understanding and discretion but no political ax to grind make a stab at cleaning it up? Thanks. —Mahāgaja (formerly Angr) · talk 15:16, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

I've just reverted the last huge batch of unsourced additions that were made. Equinox ◑ 16:08, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

I've condensed it a bit further, combining two similar senses (one [from before the recent edits] with cites formatted in PAM's idiosyncratic way) and some subsenses. I will look through the removed additions and see if anything seems sufficiently different and attested as to merit re-addition. - -sche (discuss) 16:38, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

OK; "a person who seeks or shares their truth" (or "who seeks the truth"), if it were attested (maybe the first could be used in religious contexts, and the latter of journalists?) would seem distinct, but I can find no evidence that either is attested. After that there follows a mass of redundant senses, culminating in the claim that the term has been weaponized by the CIA. - -sche (discuss) 16:45, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

The same user appears to have edited quite a few other entries in POV ways, e.g. adding "cover-up" as a synonym of the noun "suicide". - -sche (discuss) 16:51, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

• I just rewrote it from scratch. Ƿidsiþ 09:39, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

After a bit more editing (...and edit-warring...) this looks good, IMO. - Rouge Admin Cabal Spokesperson 48 (discuss) 20:09, 26 May 2018 (UTC)