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Stephen Harrison (21 May 2019). "Why China Blocked Wikipedia in All Languages". Slate (magazine). Retrieved 23 May 2019.
Frank Bajak (13 March 2023). "Russian court fines Wikipedia for article about Ukraine war". ABC News. Retrieved 18 March 2023.

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This article contains inaccurate graphics and charts that do not show the ongoing censorship of Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation by an Indian court enforced without authority or sound legal reasoning by the cowardly, greedy and kowtowing WMF(which should resign immediately and surrender all assets to the editors to prevent such censorship from occurring in the future). Though they can thank the editors who continue to donate their free labor. Slywriter (talk) 14:17, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You oversimplify a very complicated issue- which seems to be more what your post is about than inaccurate graphics. If you want to propose corrections, please do so. If you want to air your grievances with the WMF or their lawyers, this isn't the forum. 331dot (talk) 14:23, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Go ahead and refer me for a ban on slamming the WMF in censorship. That will be a fun debate. So no, I will include comments in every edit I make in this site until the kowtowing of the WMF to India ceases or they have resigned.

It’s pretty darn relevant that an article that does not violate any United States laws and that was blocked without the filing of any legal paperwork in the United States remains blocked for months while the community sits in silence and pushes the issue to back pages so regular editors and especially donors remain unware.

but yes go ahead and protect the WMF by over complicating a simple fact “a page is banned by an Indian Court and the questionable actions of the WMF in kowtowing to that Court” it’s a major thing. Speaks to the core of the credibility and responsibility of the single most important information source on earth Slywriter (talk) 12:57, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Blocking specific types of articles"

Under the above heading the article says "Many countries block a range of articles on sensitive topics..." but earlier it said "Since then, the only censorship options have been to block one of the entire list of Wikipedias..." Are these statements consistent, or should the first statement be in the past tense? Explanation welcome. 180.150.39.14 (talk) 09:00, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have updated it to past tense. Vpab15 (talk) 17:27, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]