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category: anti-islam sentiment etc

hi ‎Nableezy I have indeed read the article. You reverted my deletion of the category: anti-islam sentiment, but didn't address the problem: namely that per the category's own description, we are not supposed to file people, groups or institutions under it. So, I would like to ask you to self-revert or otherwise we could start addressing the actual problem here: that the RFC from 2011 I linked in my edit doesn’t reflect Wikipedia consensus anymore. What would you like? (related discussion: Talk:Project_Veritas#Category:_anti-islam_sentiment) Best, Mvbaron (talk) 14:26, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This article covers violent acts against Muslims. Not just the group. nableezy - 17:09, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Im sorry but this makes no sense. This article is quite obviously about a group, an organisation as the lede says, and category:anti-Islam sentiment says “It must not include articles about individuals, groups or media that are allegedly anti-Islam.” I’m happy to go ahead with a RFC to re-evaluate consensus on the category but the issue is not so easily waved away as you make it look like. Mvbaron (talk) 17:30, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Inactive?

According to the last sentence of the first paragraph of the lead, the group is designated “inactive” by many lists, but this isn’t expanded on in the body at all, and it doesn’t appear to be supported by the source. Can anyone clarify? — HTGS (talk) 05:18, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm wondering the same thing. There website is inactive, and I can't find any media coverage from the past few years. Marquardtika (talk) 02:02, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Here's something that might be useful. Marquardtika (talk) 02:03, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

update

A major leader of the Jewish Defense League in Israel (Itamar Ben Gvir) was elected to the Knesset yesterday in a party that will be the second largest in Netanyahu's future coalition. Worth updating? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.1.159.151 (talk) 13:42, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ben Gvir's party is Jewish Power ... is that related to the JDL? Sources? Iskandar323 (talk) 14:19, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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__________ In the introduction, please change:

"The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a far-right religious and political organization in the United States and Canada."

to:

"The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a far-right religious and political organization in the United States and Canada founded in 1968"

while the founding date is listed elsewhere, that date should be in the introduction-- mainly, because now it sounds now like it was founded in the 2000s, given the reference to when JDL was listed on the FBI terrorism watch list. The intro should clearly indicate how long the organization has existed.

Thank you. 71.167.251.99 (talk) 18:29, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see the need for this. It clearly states the founding year in the lede just a few sentences down. The info about the terror classification is important enough of a point to have been mentioned right at the top, and the historical info can be found shortly thereafter. StonyBrook _babble 20:15, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No mention of the JDL in the UK?

I thought that this was strange as at one point (2010's) this was a thing, is there a reason for no mention or would this be a good addition? SP00KYtalk 18:16, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you can identify a good source it can certainly be considered. Zero^talk 23:18, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]