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Former good articleMcCarthyism was one of the History good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
On this day... Article milestones
DateProcessResult
March 17, 2007Good article nomineeListed
February 14, 2008Good article reassessmentKept
January 2, 2024Good article reassessmentDelisted
On this day... Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on February 9, 2011, and February 9, 2019.
Current status: Delisted good article

Is "are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party of the United States" a verbatim quote?

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The sources for this quote aren't transcripts or official documents, they're books written some time after the fact. Not that I doubt the question was asked -- obviously it was -- but how are we sure that this is the precise way it was said? I think we should have a source that unambiguously says that this is the exact phrase used in questioning, or else not have it in quotes in the article. I mention this only because it's a very well-known phrase, quoted often, but it seems strange for there to not be direct quotations of it.

By way of comparison: tons of people watched Star Trek, and tons of people think that "Beam me up, Scotty" is something Captain Kirk said in that show, because he is always asking Scotty to beam him up, but it turned out years later (once we got transcripts and home video and et cetera) he actually never said it once. jp×g 11:58, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

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The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.


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Result: Delisted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 23:28, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This 2007 promotion contains significant uncited material, along with a banner for original research from January in the "Victims" section and numerous citation-related tags. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:03, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Poor sources

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I've noticed a lot of sources on this article don't have a link attached. Some sources, such as source 27, only have a last name and a year, which isn't helpful to people looking to read the sources themselves. Can anyone help find links for these sources? RteeeeKed💬📖 19:50, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]