Talk:Éric Zemmour

Semi-protected edit request on 17 February 2022

This man isn't Far right at all but more like a republican Orthodox 2601:644:4300:DCF0:0:0:0:6478 (talk) 14:49, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. See discussion above. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:56, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

WikiZédia

Information from this article [1] could be included at our article. It is due weight. Cinadon36 15:23, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Apparently this is the main source: [2]. JBchrch talk 15:51, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

@Cinadon36 and JBchrch: That is part of an organized operation. See next section. Mathglot (talk) 21:33, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Organized interference with this article by the Zemmour campaign

This article is being edited by members of a task force attached to the Zemmour campaign. Please see WP:VPM#WikiZedia: an organized influence operation at Wikipedia by the campaign of a candidate for French President. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 21:33, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

I think this campaign was largely focused on FrWiki, which his voting population is more likely to read. There has been comparatively relatively little disruption here. Hemiauchenia (talk) 21:42, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

I concur with @Hemiauchenia. I took a look at this some weeks ago when I attempted a clean-up of the article, and I did not notice any suspicious activity. JBchrch talk 23:49, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Manipulation of wikipedia by a French presidential candidate team. Doug Weller talk 20:49, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi, sorry about my broken English. I tried to sum up the story here on meta: m:Talk:Wikiproject:Antispam#Clandestine task force actively promoting Eric Zemmour's presidential campaign at Wikipedia. Best regards, - Bédévore ^{[knock knock]} 16:18, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

With a book and over two dozen articles in the French press about it, this has become a notable topic on its own. I've added a section about the online influence campaign to the Reconquête article. Ideally, that would fit best in an article about the campaign committee, because that's where it all happened, but given that we don't have that article (yet?) it's not entirely clear whether it fits better at Reconquête, or here. I would argue that the article about the political party is a better fit, but as long as it is included somewhere, I don't feel strongly about which article should host it. I do think that the "non-hosting" article should include a sentence or two about it, and point to the other one for more detail. Mathglot (talk) 02:43, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

COI tag (February 2022)

see Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#WikiZedia:_an_organized_influence_operation_at_Wikipedia_by_the_campaign_of_a_candidate_for_French_President AFreshStart (talk) 23:36, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

I've removed the tag because this article does not have COI issues. I think that there is a better case for the COI tag on Reconquête, which has been extensively edited by Cheep (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who is associated with the campaign. Hemiauchenia (talk) 23:46, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Fair enough. I was just thinking that there may have been issues with the version of this article on the French Wikipedia before it was translated onto the English Wikipedia, and that these may have been carried over. But I understand the reasoning for removing the COI tag. —AFreshStart (talk) 14:27, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

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