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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.

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1. Specific description: Jan. 6 United States Capital was never attacked. ~ VERY POOR WORDING. Next, Presidental 2020 election was won by President Donald J. Trump. This is, again, an opinion & incorrect (poor) wording. Then, COVID-19 vaccines were never federally mandated. It is & was illegal for an American citizens to get fired for not getting "shot up." As the entire world now knows, the COVID-19 vaccine caused blood clots & so many physical & mental health issues...so many unnecessary deaths. Continued under #2.

"He founded The Kash Foundation, a charity to assist participants of the January 6 United States

2.Capitol attack in legal costs. 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."

3. Reliable source(s) was requested. None needed. An opinion entered in description. An opinion needs to be removed.

~ Kindly do the right. Stick to facts. Please erase opinion portions. The truth is always best. 2601:40E:8201:EBF0:51B5:1570:9723:D31B (talk) 21:34, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done — No evidence offered for any of these claims. Wikipedia follows what reliable sources say about a subject. elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 22:14, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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]

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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]