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Kash Patel is currently a Politics and government good article nominee. Nominated by elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) at 06:54, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

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Dan Schneider and Tom Olohan (March 19, 2025). "How biased Wikipedia trashed Trump's nominees — after he named them". New York Post. Retrieved March 20, 2025. After Trump announced his pick to lead the FBI, Wikipedia editors vandalized now-Director Kash Patel's page with attacks from Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and other detractors.

No longer ATF director

While still the FBI director, he appears to have been replaced as the acting ATF director as of Apr 9, 2025 - would advocate modification of this article to reflect the change. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/kash-patel-director-atf-bureau-removal 132.239.136.2 (talk) 19:21, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Parent's gift

I removed some "material" about a gift after graduation. It's not really that notable. Malerooster (talk) 15:17, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Personal Life section

Some editors have deleted the entire Personal Life section without any discussion on TALK page. The section had relevant content and references, and should be restored. Some details are moved to Early Life section, making it unduly long. Also, many details belong to Personal Life sectio per WP:LAYOUT. Thanks. 05:57, 21 April 2025 (UTC) RogerYg (talk) 05:57, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Satellizer talk contribs, Please try to restore Personal Life section, as you correctly mentioned that these details are more appropriate for this section rather than making Early Life section unduly long. Thanks RogerYg (talk) 06:00, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 2 May 2025

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Remove the word "falsely" from the following sentence:

"In 2023,[127] Patel wrote Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy, a memoir that falsely describes the origins of the FBI investigation into Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign..."

Rationale: Why the word "falsely"? How do you know it's false? Where's your evidence? No citation is provided for this claim. He's the one who conducted investigations into these things, and he wrote a book about it from his own first-hand experience. If you're going to label his book as "false", you need to provide some evidence. I think the claims in his book could be challenged if there's another side to the story or evidence that contradicts him. But even then, a whole court case would be needed to decide what's true. And then the best you could say is, "xyz has disputed his claims", or "so-and-so court case ruled that this claim was untrue". But you can't just label things as "false" without any evidence or citations or proof. 98.53.212.35 (talk) 00:30, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, but I'm going to let someone else decide that, because I've already been told not to edit "contentious topics," as you can see here. 🌳 Balsam Cottonwood (talk) ♰ 00:38, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: The sentence in question has a direct citation to the New York Times, a reliable source which backs up the claim that Patel's memoir contains false statements. Day Creature (talk) 05:39, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The line in the 4th paragraph should be rewritten or removed entirely. " Patel has promoted several conspiracy theories about the deep state, false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election, QAnon, COVID-19 vaccines, and the January 6 Capitol attack." Patel has released documents about Russiagate that has proven it was indeed a 'deep state' operation without any evidence to support the narrative that was based on completely false intel and that was coordinated by FBI leadership in coordination with DNC operatives.

Should be changed to, "Patel has shed light on corruption, including illegal and other unethical behavior within the federal government by previous leadership at the FBI and other agencies as with the regards to the Russiagate investigation and other operations." ScottyJohnson (talk) 17:18, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

include reliable references. please see WP:RELIABLE and look over list on WP:RSP. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 18:27, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GA review

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Nominator: ElijahPepe (talk · contribs) 06:54, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: PickleG13 (talk · contribs) 21:32, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well-written

Starting from the totally solid lead paragraphs, this is a great article, one that meets the Good Article standards and does so despite having a massive amount of prose to go through. The prose deserves praise in itself, easily rising to the level of Wikipedia's standards.

Verifiable with no original research

No original research appears to be present. Sourcing is good, and it broadly relies upon mainstream news sources; there are sometimes more sources than even appear necessary, which is a trait that I will never knock a page for.

Broad in its coverage

There is a high degree of specificity in a lot of sections, but Education shows that attempts were made to keep things broad. Much has been written about Patel's life as a major governmental figure.

Neutral

The prose is very neutral. Patel is necessarily controversial, but controversy is handled well.

Stable

This is the one part of the page that I would dispute, although I think it is still overall of high enough quality as to be nominated. Patel is very controversial, and the usage of the term "conspiracy theorist" has come under Talk Page discussion in the past. It has now received less weight, seemingly to reduce the number of edit wars rather than as a true reflection of its quality. As a result, it's likely that this page will continue to come under dispute throughout the second Trump presidency, something worthy of discussion.

Illustrated

There are a lot of good images that are part of this page. Even his law school is given its own image, something that I believe is a mark of an attempt at a high quality biographical article.