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Propaganda is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on March 1, 2004.

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Date	Process	Result
January 19, 2004	Refreshing brilliant prose	Kept
November 30, 2006	Featured article review	Demoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 4, 2014.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Propaganda followed up his Excellent album with his fourth solo release, Crimson Cord?

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Wiki Education assignment: Criticism as Praxis

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 3 February 2022 and 23 April 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Blakemurray7 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Sarvesh Nyachhyon, JoeyCalzo.

The New Propaganda War

These are excellent articles about propaganda (a MUST read!) dealing with MAGA's war against truth, freedom, and democracy. It is carried on by elements of Trumpism (MAGA, GOP, Trump) and Trump's autocratic dictator friends.

"The New Propaganda War"^[1]
Oliver Darcy's commentary about it: "Journalist sounds alarm on dangers of propaganda, calling it 'one of the worst crises for American democracy this century'"^[2]

The refs are fully usable as is. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 19:44, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure how to use these sources in this article. Perhaps they could be added to the "history" section. That whole section is sub-par, and should certainly have more information about post-Cold War propaganda besides a cursory mention of, of all things, the Yugoslav wars.

However, I'm not convinced that Anne Applebaum's opinion about propaganda is due in this article at all. A stronger argument could be made that her commentary is due in another article, like History of propaganda, Propaganda in the United States, Propaganda in Russia, or Propaganda through media. Philomathes2357 (talk) 06:36, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I guess it would, as always for any source, depend on how her article is used. Otherwise, as she is an eminent, widely-published, and multi-award-winning subject matter expert on the topic, I don't understand the objection. Check out her bio at Anne Applebaum. It would be hard to find a better source. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 17:12, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't object to using the articles at all. It's just not immediately obvious to me how the sources can be woven into this article as it exists currently. My first thought, like I said, would be the "History" section, which is woefully lacking and could use a lot more information about post-Cold War propaganda. How would you go about incorporating these? Philomathes2357 (talk) 05:48, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Applebaum, Anne (May 6, 2024). "The New Propaganda War". The Atlantic. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
^ Darcy, Oliver (May 8, 2024). "Journalist sounds alarm on dangers of propaganda, calling it 'one of the worst crises for American democracy this century'". CNN. Retrieved May 8, 2024.

Bisotun Inscription and Propaganda

Is the Bisotun Inscription still regarded as a piece of propaganda? I found a more rcent journal article than the current source that argues this is due to biased scholarship. Also note that the current wikipedia page for the inscription does not mention the propaganda debate. Is there a more appropriate example of early propaganda which is less contentious?

The Bīsotūn Inscription - A Jeopardy of Achaemenid History: https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1473187&dswid=-8136 24.206.69.90 (talk) 20:42, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The above source notes in its own abstract that it is presenting a revisionist view that contradicts the general views of the field. Generally, the appropriateness of including such claims on Wikipedia depends on the impact that they managed to have on the field; do subsequent publications regarding Achaemenid history defer to and/or cite Ahmadi's paper, or do they continue to uphold the prior dominant view? I wasn't able to find any evidence of citations to Ahmadi in a quick Google Scholar search. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 21:24, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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— Assignment last updated by Liliana Archuleta (talk) 07:31, 16 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Audience of

The recipients or targets for propaganda should have a more specific definition maybe than the word “audience” in the first paragraph Riderzonthestorm (talk) 09:40, 17 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

[Applebaum_5/6/2024-1] Applebaum, Anne (May 6, 2024). "The New Propaganda War". The Atlantic. Retrieved May 8, 2024.

[Darcy_5/8/2014-2] Darcy, Oliver (May 8, 2024). "Journalist sounds alarm on dangers of propaganda, calling it 'one of the worst crises for American democracy this century'". CNN. Retrieved May 8, 2024.

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