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• The article still contains the text "Optional: Give a short WP:LEAD-like introduction statement here" at the top, as well as a draft template at the bottom. Has anyone reviewed this? Sandstein 09:26, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Also, the wiki-link to "Stephen Harrison" at the bottom of the article actually leads to a disambiguation page... Oltrepier (talk) 09:32, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Usually, the publication script removes the draft templates automatically when it's run. I am not sure why it would have failed here. This is the automatic preparation edit (it does look like the draft template got removed in this oldid, but I don't know, maybe it was still being messed up). The "short WP:LEAD-like introduction" thing is just my own stupidity, though. jp×g 18:39, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

• @HaeB and Jayen466: I just wanted to add that another newspaper involved in the EIC network, Domani, cited Wikipedia edits in one of their articles covering the investigation: however, that's under pay-wall, so I can't actually tell how deeply they dive in the topic...

On a side note, thank you for covering the latest news about Ruwiki! As I mentioned here, it also seems like volunteers currently are not allowed to create or even edit content on that platform, as Medeyko is going to hire "professional editors", anyway... Oltrepier (talk) 09:39, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, yes, unfortunately a lot of the reports are paywalled (the sentence Many or most of the news reports emanating from the collective EIC investigation don't seem to have focused on the Wikipedia angle was hedging on this because while I did click on lots of them and checked that neither the headline nor the teaser before the paywall mentioned Wikipedia, I'm not going to buy a yearly subscription solely to check that for the rest of the article too).

On frwiki's Antipub (also scroll down to a second, separate section about Alp Services there) folks have found a bit more, including [1] and [2] which apparently mentions edits to Robert Eringer.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 13:53, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

• It certainly makes one wonder if we should be using sources like Louis de Raguenel (leaking confidential information that cannot legally be verified by other journalists) or Ian Hamel. They have both denied being influenced by Alp Services, but the article released by MediaPart on 10 July 2023 is pretty damning given the detailed correspondence it includes. (sorry, I suspect the article is paywalled.) -- SashiRolls ^{🌿 · 🍥} 12:48, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
• the real issue at hand is fawiki soups Stewards, checkusers, adminis who hates Wikipedia's guts.Baratiiman (talk) 13:01, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
• Honestly seems rather low energy for a nation state's capabilities. Where's the point where they bribed ClueBot and hacked an administrator account? Blythwood (talk) 01:09, 29 August 2023 (UTC)