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Isaac Stanley-Becker (September 25, 2019). "Checking the Web on Hunter Biden? A 36-year-old physicist helps decide what you'll see". Washington Post. Retrieved September 25, 2019. The page has been viewed nearly 230,000 times in the past 30 days, more than the page for Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, or for Vice President Pence. Wikipedia dominates Google's search results and helps supply the information spit out by Siri and Amazon Alexa.
C. Mitchell Shaw (September 27, 2019). "Wikipedia Editor Scrubs Citations to The New American from Hunter Biden Page". The New American. Retrieved September 30, 2019. One of the most recent examples of that — and one near to the heart of this magazine — involves biased editing of Wikipedia to remove damning information about Hunter Biden because of citations of The New American magazine.

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The firing of Viktor Shokin

This article claims there is "no evidence" that Viktor Shokin was fired to stop investigations into Hunter Biden but Viktor Shokin himself states otherwise.

That should be included in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.135.81.85 (talk) 17:37, 7 February 2020 (UTC) — 74.135.81.85 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

No, it shouldn't, because Shokin's self-serving claims are not evidence, and no reliable source has treated them as such. XOR'easter (talk) 17:52, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wow. "But Viktor Shokin himself states otherwise"... – Muboshgu (talk) 18:05, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

George Kent

Shouldn't this be included in the article? Two RS report on George P. Kent raising serious concerns related to Hunter Biden's work for Burisma.[1][2]...According to WaPo "Kent raised the issue with Biden's office, he was told the then-vice president didn't have the bandwidth to deal with the issue".Circulair (talk) 23:26, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I see no reason not to do it. We already deal with the bad optics (the appearance of a conflict-of-interest), which Hunter gave as the reason why he resigned his position. We deal with this in the body of the article and in the lead. BTW, only your first source is a RS. The Post is definitely not a RS.

"Kent...is the first known example of a career diplomat who raised concerns internally in the Obama administration about Hunter Biden’s board position....The first time the aide recalls Hunter Biden’s involvement surfacing as an issue was in December 2015, when the vice president traveled to Ukraine to deliver an anti-corruption speech and the New York Times wrote about his son’s role. Hunter Biden’s board appointment had been publicly announced the previous year and reported by the media at the time."^[1]

It should be possible to boil that down to one sentence in the body, together with the mention of the appearance of a COI. Go for it. -- BullRangifer (talk) 04:27, 20 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah agree with BullRangifer, go for it when ever the extended protection comes down --TomaHawk61 (talk) 17:38, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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^ Hudson, John; Bade, Rachael; Viser, Matt (October 18, 2019). "Diplomat tells investigators he raised alarms in 2015 about Hunter Biden's Ukraine work but was rebuffed". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 20, 2020.

[Hudson_Bade_Viser_10/18/2019-1] Hudson, John; Bade, Rachael; Viser, Matt (October 18, 2019). "Diplomat tells investigators he raised alarms in 2015 about Hunter Biden's Ukraine work but was rebuffed". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 20, 2020.

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