Talk:Aage Borchgrevink

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

This article is rated Stub-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Biography

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool as Stub-class because it uses a stub template. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the `\|auto=` parameter.

Norway

	Norway portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Norway, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Norway on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.NorwayWikipedia:WikiProject NorwayTemplate:WikiProject NorwayNorway articles
	This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool as Stub-class because it uses a stub template. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the `\|auto=` parameter.

Harassment of Borchgrevink by accounts linked to promotion of Russian propaganda[edit]

See [1] & [2] & [3] about the ongoing attempts to discredit and/or harass Borchgrevink by accounts linked to the promotion of Russian propaganda, some of them affiliated with pro-Putin conspiracy theorist website Steigan.no. This all started right after the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year and has been going on since.

The ongoing and systematic harassment efforts include attempts to add material such as

"He is widely known in Norway for spreading propaganda for Washington"
"he focuses on justifying military campaigns"
"best known for his campaign against Julian Assange" (a laughable statement)
persistent attempts to deny the well-referenced fact (three(!) high-quality references on WD, including a scholarly article by Elisabeth Eide) that he is (in addition to being a writer and literary critic) a human rights activist (Q1476215 on Wikidata; which covers the concepts "human rights activist", "human rights campaigner", "human rights defender" and "human rights worker"), i.e. someone who has worked on human rights in Russia and beyond for the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, a well-established human rights NGO largely funded by the Norwegian government, for three decades, with this being his main profession – i.e. an entirely uncontroversial, incontrovertible and well-referenced fact; Q1476215 covers precisely what he has done for a living for three decades and what he is known for (among other things). The removal is plain vandalism and POV-pushing.
"Borchgrevink has started a campaign against Julian Assange. He works at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, where he focuses on justifying military campaigns"
"Adding essential information to understand the man, a.k.a. PetterLøkd" (which is quite funny since I was a Wikipedian for years before I even knew who Borchgrevink was)

All of this looks very much like it's straight out of a Russian troll factory – especially when we look at the broader pattern over the past year. The (clearly systematic) campaign of harassment against Borchgrevink has likely been coordinated by the milieu surrounding the conspiracy theorist and pro-Putinist website Steigan.no, as social media accounts linked to Steigan has commented on it and gloated about the harassment of Borchgrevink. --PetterLøkd (talk) 01:42, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]