Editing Talk:Cognitive warfare (section)

== Major article cleanup ==

This article needed cleanup: lots of sources to unreliable sources, full of synthesis, non-neutral language, and fringe theories. I've done a significant cleanup effort which can be summarized as follows:
*Removed all claims and references sourced solely to Gary Bonick JR. This person appears to lack any recognized expertise in the field, and these were overwhelmingly sourced to a self-published e-book; thus failing [[WP:RS|to meet the reliability standard]].
*Attributed almost all claims sourced solely to Masakowski, and rewritten to not be in wiki-voice. Whether Masakowski qualifies as an expert in the field is debatable -- for the sake of this article I operated under the assumption that she is, and thus that her Youtube video constitutes an expert SPS -- however, her claims cannot be used in wikivoice as there is no indication they are broadly representative of anything but her own opinion. 
*Maintenance tagged most claims by Masakowski as needing verification (they link to a Youtube video without timestamps) and as requiring better sourcing (in general, a youtube video is a poor source even for an SPS as it lacks the traditional indicia of reliability.
*Removed a number of claims that were not directly supported by their source. Per [[WP:V]], [[WP:SYNTH]], and [[WP:RS]], sources need to be *directly* applicable to the claims made
*Removed a significant amount of synthesis. See above explanation.
*Removed entire history section tangent about SCL, Cambridge Analytica and the U.S. presidential elections. Not one of those sources make any reference to cognitive warfare; this is a textbook [[WP:SYNTH]] violation and a massive neutrality issue.
*Rewrote section on "Cognitive warfare weaponry" -- inappropriate tone, as there are no "weapons" used; this is masking language that makes the article more difficult to understand. It's referring to data. 
*Copyediting, mostly combining sentences, decapitalizations
*Page moved from [[Cognitive Warfare]] to [[Cognitive warfare]] in accordance with our capitalization practices.

There's probably more but that's the high points. Issues that still remain:
*Concerning over-reliance on Masakowski, and questions about her qualification as an expert
*Better sourcing than Paolo Ruggiero's statements -- same concerns about Masakowski and 
*Better sourcing than the RigaDialogue video, which frequently veered into [[WP:SYNTH]] territory in the article.


In any event, it looks like there's just barely enough meat here after cleaning up, that it would survive an XfD so I'm not nominating it, but there's still a lot of work left to be done. [[User:Swatjester|<span style="color:red">⇒</span>]][[User_talk:Swatjester|<span style="font-family:Serif"><span style="color:black">SWAT</span><span style="color:goldenrod">Jester</span></span>]] <small><sup>Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!</sup></small> 16:39, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

:Thank you so much, @[[User:Swatjester|Swatjester]] – this article is now easier for a non-expert to read and evaluate against our notability and verifiability criteria. '''[[User:ClaudineChionh|ClaudineChionh]]''' <small>(''she/her'' · [[User talk:ClaudineChionh|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/ClaudineChionh|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/ClaudineChionh|email]])</small> 23:42, 27 October 2024 (UTC)