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California Republicans are more moderate or progressive?

The article makes it seem that all of California's Republicans are from the Conservative Wing. What makes this questionable is the fact that the Governor is a Moderate Republican. Why not add a column to the list which shows which wing the individual politicians represent. - SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) (talk) 14:05, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for noticing the more left side of the GOP we haven't took notice, except FOX News, BET and Telemundo had heavily reported on California has a double personality when it came to politics, morality and social liberalism throughout the state's history. The majority of California Republicans don't share the same brand of social conservatism than the other conservatives in states of the Midwest, interior West and deep South. The state is said to been the origin of neo-conservative Republican ethos by the likes of native-born GOP members like Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Earl Warren and now the "Governator" (self-explanatory) with ties to the Hollywood Left, San Francisco and the Kennedy-Shriver connection through his Democrat wife Maria Shriver. + Mike D 26 (talk) 16:46, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed material taken from party website

I've removed the section on the party platform; it had large sections taken unmodified from the party website. In any case this is not a good way to address the platform of a state party; please take a look at Talk:Kansas Republican Party for a discussion of this issue and an example of a better way to present the information. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:18, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Google apologizes for spreading Wikipedia vandalism

Google has apologized to Kevin McCarthy (California politician), Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, for spreading vandalism of this Wikipedia page in its search results. IP 67.180.161.149 vandalized the page at 05:52, 24 May 2018. It remained online for an appalling 6½ days until finally reverted by IP 38.75.52.47 at 21:14, 30 May 2018. It's alarming that Wikipedia's automated processes failed to catch and correct this glaringly obvious libel. KalHolmann (talk) 19:32, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The vandalism was caught LITTERALLY within a minute. Look at the revision history. This means that it was most likely the vandal themself who took the screenshot and posted it to online sources. False flag rallying? 96.28.121.222 (talk) 04:35, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Since the page was repeatedly vandalized, please specify which vandalism you mean was caught within a minute. We use diffs to precisely identify edits in question. KalHolmann (talk) 04:43, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This vandalism is on the front page of the Drudge Report. Suggest this be made a semi protected page? Tvillars (talk) 19:54, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've lost faith in Wikipedia's integrity not to spread "fake news" regarding a party's ideology. Please change status of page. We are not Nazis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.236.18.52 (talk) 22:36, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

To prevent copycat vandalism, page status was changed to semi-protected at 20:11, 31 May 2018, meaning only autoconfirmed users can edit it. KalHolmann (talk) 00:10, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

six and a half days doesn't seem that astonishing to me given that the article typically gets less than 200 page views per day (maybe less when elections aren't looming). Not saying that justifies it, of course, just saying that low-traffic pages probably hide a lot of ickiness (because no one is looking). - Scarpy (talk) 01:21, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What surprises me is 6½ days online despite the keyword "Nazism." Doesn't Wikipedia use filters & bots or whatever to catch obvious vandalism? If adding "Nazism" to the Infobox of a major political party in our nation's most populous state—regardless of how few page views it gets—does not set off alarms at Wikipedia, something is very wrong. KalHolmann (talk) 01:30, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

We do, it's called the WP:Edit filter. This is another reason why I think putting a band-aid on the problem with 50 million {{schoolblock}}s and {{anonblock}}s (used for workplace, public terminal, etc. blocks) is asinine. For one thing, it's easier to monitor a problematic school or corporate range, snipe the nonsense missed by the Wikipedia:RC patrols, and report patterns of garbage to the network administrator than to monitor a sea of edits from cable/DSL/cellular ranges, and for another thing, improving the automated mechanisms we have to stop vandalism will stop more nonsense and affect less good faith contributors. PCHS-NJROTC ^{(Messages)Have a blessed day.} 03:17, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia has responded via Twitter with a message that leaves me confused. "Earlier today," they explain, "several media outlets reported that a Google knowledge panel result for the California Republican Party included a link to the ideology of Nazism. This panel result was drawn from a vandalized version of a Wikipedia article. This vandalism was not visible to Wikipedia readers in the text of the article, and has been removed by volunteer editors." (Emphasis added.) I don't understand what is meant by "not visible to Wikipedia readers." Since the vandalism went uncorrected for 6½ days, surely it was visible during that period to Wikipedia readers. Please, what am I missing here? KalHolmann (talk) 03:46, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This edit, which is the one that remained up for nearly a week, used a piped link, with "Nazism" in the link portion but "Conservatism" in the visible portion. Anyone looking at the page would see "Conservatism" and not suspect anything was wrong unless they happened to hover the mouse over the link, or follow it. -- 209.150.231.38 (talk) 06:12, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 1 June 2018

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Please undo revision 825492482 by Ionol. Revert vandalism.

The California Democratic Party is classified as "Center-left" on their Wiki page. There is no reason to classify the California Republican Party as "Right-wing".

Thanks. Wayubi (talk) 03:03, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done. KalHolmann (talk) 03:10, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. This is fine, but it was OK to leave "Center-right" as that is what it was originally prior to 825492482. Only "Right-wing" (the change introduced in 825492482) was pejorative. (https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=California_Republican_Party&type=revision&diff=825492482&oldid=820902335)

Due to ongoing copycat vandalism—such as this by Tuckertrash25 6½ hours after page status was changed to semi-protected—we must insist on WP:RS to support populating the Infobox party position parameter. KalHolmann (talk) 04:06, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]