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Regarding your reply in Talk:Oath Keepers, first, I usually try to cite references to fact I make unless I feel particularly lazy, so don't take offense. Regarding your reply, the continued maintenance by many that there are RS that "expressly describe the group as conservative" is concerning to me. An RS of course is contextual. So far there have been a few newspaper articles posted from five years ago or longer mentioning OK as a "conservative group" once in an article not about OK. Fine, work with what you got, right? Except several groups have written in-depth pieces on OK since then (I cite SPLC, CSIS, and ProPublica in the thread) that conspicuously do not mention conservatism. And of course there's Jackson, who is quoted in full, who has a very qualified take on it. It's difficult to prove a negative like this, and they're not calling them "not conservative" either, but it's just kind of weird that we haven't seen one profile of the group – never mind not one since 2020 – calling them or their ideology conservative. That's why it doesn't seem to me to be a reasonable ideological association to make. SamuelRiv (talk) 16:15, 26 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@SamuelRiv: Hi Samuel: my apologies for not responding sooner--I've just not been on very much of late and your message got lost in the mix of login notices. If you're still interested in my perspective on the matter, I'll share my take as a first priority next time I'm on; only blowing through today. SnowRise ^{let's rap} 03:18, 9 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Your naval-gazing inspired me

[1] Merry Christmas! Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:21, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A belated Happy Holidays to you as well Gråbergs Gråa Sång--and a Happy New Year when we get there as well! I didn't realize we had that essay, but then I can't say as I'm shocked either: what Wikipedian can resist an extra level of recursion on an already meta topic? Bah to spelling error.. SnowRise ^{let's rap} 02:24, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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