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Image of Yarvin?[edit]

I feel an image of Yarvin would be helpful, if nothing else to provide a face to the name mentioned in the article. There's one already on his wikipedia page. Also relevant would be an image of Nick Land. Thoughts? JBrahms (talk) 12:45, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What value would that add to the article? We're not supposed to use images just to have images. TucanHolmes (talk) 19:04, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article is beyond repair[edit]

This is full of liberal propaganda pretending to be "neutral" and any attempts to fix it are being instantly reverted. This article is not to be trusted and is yet another sign that Wikipedia is not meant to provide useful information. Photon2003 (talk) 07:05, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Which parts of the article are "liberal propaganda"? Do you have reliable sources to back up your claims? TucanHolmes (talk) 19:00, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

James Kirchick quotation biased and blatantly wrong[edit]

It is really biased to say that "although neo-reactionary thinkers disdain the masses and claim to despise populism and people more generally, what ties them to the rest of the alt-right is their unapologetically racist element, their shared misanthropy and their resentment of mismanagement by the ruling elites." It is pretty univerally agreed upon with fellow NRx thinkers that masses of people are usually misused or don't need appealed to and that there should be an elite. However there is not some consensus among NRx thinkers or followers that we hate humans or are all racist. Yarvin criticizes white nationalism and is from a Jewish family himself. The only NRx thinker I can imagine that is perhaps racist and hates humanity would be maybe Nick Land who is fine with posthumanism. However I would say online NRx thinkers like Auron Macintyre, Charlemagne, and The Distributist are all pro-human and support having children. And I would argue they aren't open or unapologetic racists and probably not racists at all but it is mostly besides the point. The point is that the quatation is misleading media bias that clearly doesn't apply to all neo-reactionary thinkers. Posthumanism is misanthropic but not really even associated as neo-reactionary because that is not a reactionary civilization in any manner. And there are people who are totally fine with multiracial patchwork societies. Crazando (talk) 07:50, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please provide citations from reliable sources for your claims, and be specific about what changes you want to make to the article. TucanHolmes (talk) 12:07, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are we supposed to believe that you will not instantly revert our work since it obviously conflicts with your worldview? This page reads like a report for parents to know their child's bad behavior at school, but applied through articles from ignorant journalists who make up things on the spot to please their readers. After all, as someone who has intensively studied neoreactionary theory for years, i can confirm that their view of media synopsis is perfectly accurate with what is going on on this article. Photon2003 (talk) 23:54, 3 March 2024 (UTC -5)

Wikipedia uses reliable sources in its articles. We do not consider original research, because it's often unverifiable and/or very difficult to verify. While we do use primary sources as sources in an article (in this case, "neoreactionary" writings themselves), we usually rely more on secondary and tertiary sources, especially if the topic is contentious. I will not revert well-sourced and justified additions or removals (changes) to the article, but I – and others – will revert unsubstantiated removals merely resting on vague accusations of "bias". Wikipedia has a bias towards reliable sources, and that will not change just because you don't like it or because of some "neoreactionary" theory about media synopsis.

If you wish to make changes to the article, go and get reliable sources to support those changes, and please note our list of perennial sources. TucanHolmes (talk) 19:54, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So what you are saying is that when writing an informative piece about an ideology to understand it it is better that a totally unrelated journalist writing a hit piece should get a piece of the article rather than quotations from the actual writers and founders of the movement? If so then I would have to say that is like entrusting the British to give all the information about the American Revolution.

Reliable sources? Really? Your journalist makes this claim and has nothing to back it up yet it is my responsibility to prove that it isn't misanthropic and is not a racist movement? Well how about we just lay out quotes calling every ideology racist and misanthropic. After all we only have to show what journalists believe about the ideology, not what it actually says. Crazando (talk) 21:52, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The change I want made is for the quote to either be removed or put off in a section for criticism/unfounded claims. Crazando (talk) 21:54, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Crazando. I don't think you understand how Wikipedia works. We don't post our views or opinions. All claims and quotes must be backed by a cited source. If you feel that cited material is not representing the full picture, or has been contradicted, all you need to do is produce a reliable source that says something different and we can amend the text of the article accordingly. But you are basically saying you want us to remove properly cited material because you disagree with it. See WP:IDONTLIKEIT and WP:TRUTH. -Ad Orientem (talk) 22:15, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]