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Nazism is a far-right ideology.

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Finland

Finland had a notorious neo-Nazi leader Pekka Siitoin (1944-2003). He started as an ardent anticommunist who organized terror campaign against pro-communist media. In 1976 one of his followers burned communist printing house. Siitoin was jailed. After his release from prison in 1982, he demanded overthrow of goverment and forming a new regime based on fascism. He did get much media coverage. Si, he ended up calling himself the Fuehrer of Finland. He used swastika flag as his symbol and promoted nazism. He received lot of media coverage in the 1990s. However, he was out of date. He continued his neo-Nazism until his death (2003).

Source: Iiro Nordling; Long Shadow of Finland’s Fuehrer: Life and legacy of the notorious Finnish occult neo-Nazi Pekka Siitoin. Amazon 2021. ISBN ‎979-8546175634.

Grammar Disaster

"In 2025, businessman Elon Musk's comments and remarks linked his relations with antisemitism conspiracy theories were criticized by international governments and several media outlets over the years."

This sentence is so ungrammatical as to be nearly incomprehensible. I'd make an edit request if I could figure out what it was even trying to say.

My best shot is "Elon Musk made comments linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories that have been criticized by international governments and media outlets." The "over the years" makes no sense, though. It can't refer to comments he made this year because he just made them and if it refers to the conspiracies, they've probably been criticized for decades, right? However it gets rephrased someone's got to take care of it, though, because that's not English. Ryonne (talk) 20:10, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ryonne. In cases where a grammar disaster makes it hard to figure out what the sentence was even trying to say, one option is to ignore the sentence, read the source, and create a new sentence, which I have done in this case. And thank you for seeing this! Lova Falk (talk) 14:50, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

9% of Americans? More like 9% of a sample of 1000 of em

The poll that Wikipedia portrays as saying 9% of Americans support Neo Nazism is really just a poll of 1000 (a pretty small sample size to make claims for the entire country) people, of which 9% said holding Neo nazi views is acceptable. This should be changed to give a more accurate depiction of what that poll actually means.

https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/9-of-americans-think-its-ok-to-hold-white-supremacist-or-neo-nazi-views-poll-1513304986 Polkol777 (talk) 02:58, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Polkol777. A sample size of 1000 is ~~not~~ considered quite standard for national public opinion polls. The pdf says "Results have a margin of sampling error of 3.5 points" that is, it could be up to 3.5% less or more. As this is a standard size for a poll, I won't change the text. Friendly, Lova Falk (talk) 16:37, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Is not considered quite standard" did you mean to say it is considered standard? I don't think putting this 1,000 person study as being representative of the entire country is fair. The text should more accurately reflect the sample size Polkol777 (talk) 17:57, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You are correct about the mistake in my text, thank you for seeing that. However, 1000 is common for US polls. Others have been upset about this too: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1b8uc5p/eli5_how_is_it_that_in_the_ussurveys_of_1000_are/ Friendly, Lova Falk (talk) 18:22, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I will have to become a more seasoned editor to make this change then Polkol777 (talk) 05:44, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I thought Neo-Nazism had higher levels of support in the Southern United States, since the American Nazi Party is headquartered in Virginia, the openly Neo-Nazi White Patriot Party used to be active in Arkansas, and fellow Neo-Nazi organization Imperial Klans of America is headquartered in Kentucky. Dimadick (talk) 22:32, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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It would be better to change "In 2017, following the Charlottesville car attack, an ABC News/Washington Post poll found out that 9% of all Americans supported the neo-Nazi ideology, which back then amounted to some 22 million Americans" to "In 2017, following the Charlottesville car attack, an ABC News/Washington Post poll found out that 9% of all Americans respected people's right to hold neo-Nazi ideology, which back then amounted to some 22 million Americans" - the source is about right to respect neo-Nazi views, not holding neo-Nazi ideology. Soldierneverdie1 (talk) 22:23, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done – macaddct1984 ^{(talk | contribs)} 14:28, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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