User talk:Eyer

Eyer is in university, attending University of West Florida, to become a professional editor [!]. Eyer is taking a wikibreak and may be away or inactive for varying periods of time. Although he may occasionally be able to do some editing, messages left for him may not be replied to for a while. He will be back on Wikipedia when university is over.

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Hi Eyer,

I have never updated a Wikipedia page before. I tried to update a grotesquely false claim on the Wikipedia Page about "The Squad" which referred to them as "far left." The second time I included citations but it was still deleted. I may have not cited it correctly. How can I change this?

In truth, calling "the squad" far left is absurd and it should not take a citation to change it because it is demonstrably false. I teach politics at a major university.

-Jordan 2601:4C0:8180:810:8467:A217:E689:20AC (talk) 22:18, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• You also removed the hidden text saying ""far left" is how multiple reliable sources provided in the citation describes their politics", and a bunch of those sources are listed in the very first reference. If you want to take issue with the term, you'll have to do that on the article talk page by taking issue with the cited sources. Drmies (talk) 22:20, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  How do I see the hidden sources so that I can comment on them? When I deleted them it was because they can't be viewed from the Wikipedia page. From what I can tell they are just news sources, not academic sources. I cited academic sources about what the far-left is versus what social democracy is. I even cited the Wikipedia page on social democracy, which as far as I can tell is the best definition for the policies promoted by the squad.

  If I can look at the sources again I can explain how they are not reliable. 2601:4C0:8180:810:8467:A217:E689:20AC (talk) 22:41, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Sorry I see the sources now. They are news sources, they are not academic sources on political ideology. Therefore they are not reliable. 2601:4C0:8180:810:8467:A217:E689:20AC (talk) 22:43, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]