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Semi-protected edit request on 2 May 2022

Adding sources to the claim "Some academics and journalists have described Southern as a white nationalist..." would go a long way for the sake of political balance. Being able to source such a claim is quite important, otherwise it isn't known if there is a political bias of individuals who would make such a strong claim. 74.78.26.148 (talk) 10:01, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

If you press the note marked as ^[b], you will see the sources. Endwise (talk) 10:04, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

It's not about political balance. It's about accuracy.

The use of the terms "alt-right", "white nationalist" and "far-right" are supported by multiple admissible citations. For any changes to be made, you should suggest reliable sources which present Ms Southern in a different light. See: WP:RS and WP:BLP for some guidance. Hyperballad Eye (talk) 10:50, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

The notable source would be Ms Southern herself and her lawsuit against your website for defamation for listing her as something she claims to not be.

https://www.mixedtimes.com/news/lauren-southern-sends-defamation-complaint-to-wikipedia-over-long-running-smear-campaign

You are calling her something she does not believe in or publicly state to be, something used to defame her and attack her character that she personally states to not believe.

There is no better source than this, the person who holds the believes you are claiming to know.

This is why I dont donate to you and the example I give to anyone who thinks about donating to your site. Wikipedia will ignore people's actual words and get sued to publish smears about them. Dublin716 (talk) 22:11, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

That online tabloid does not appear to be a reliable source, in the sense of WP:RS. Newimpartial (talk) 23:09, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

It doesnt need to be for the point, the point is that she herself has a lawsuit against your website because it is falsely making claims about her, and you are still saying that is not enough to remove those claims.

A political affiliation is not a brand burned on by hateful people like those who initially branded her in the first place.

You are saying that these sites are fake news as you push a smear campaign against someone suing you for those smears.

That is wild that I just tried to link 2 other sources and both were black listed from your website, you also ban news sources. I really hope anyone who isnt already agreeing with you catches on that this site is just biased trash and unfounded smears. Dublin716 (talk) 05:10, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEZeqhTB5sA&t=1105s

Since you banned the only news sites that will report on it, here is her own words on the matter and about her lawsuit.

You are smear merchants, nothing more. Dublin716 (talk) 05:13, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Alt-right

Off-topic. WP article content is based on reliable sources, not on opinions devoid of sources

Southern has made it clear that she identifies as a conservative, so why is she still labeled as alt-right? 2603:8080:C401:BC90:8066:82FB:A243:97EC (talk) 03:19, 10 October 2022 (UTC) All you have to do is watch one or two of her videos on YouTube to see that she isn't alt-right. This particular page seems to have gone to great lengths to portray her as such, but she's mostly conservative, not alt-right. Unless alt-right doesn't mean what I think it means anymore. That's the problem with these terms; they're constantly shifting, and nobody can distinguish between alt-right and ordinary conservative thinking anymore. You can use me as a source, if you like. She's not alt-right. Robertwharvey (talk) 13:03, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Unfortunate. Perhaps we should discourage the use of sources from 4/5/6 years ago, at the beginning of Southern's career, and instead find (Wikipedia standards acceptable) sources that reflect her current political stances. I would actually consider her less conservative than Michael J. Knowles who is not alt-right. 24.156.179.25 (talk) 00:54, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

On a secondary note, such a label given to her isn't surprising when Wikipedia considers Buzzfeed as a reliable accurate source. This article used Buzzfeed 5 times, incredible. And to top it off the article also features Media Matters, calling her a "troll". Totally accurate and trustworthy, yup. Hard to be those things when articles written are so blatantly partisan. Not even trying to hide bias which does skew characterization of figures like Southern. 24.156.179.25 (talk) 01:01, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

If you would like to discuss the reliability of BuzzFeed News, WP:RSN is thataway. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 18:45, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Hilarious, you were one of the mods that was named by Southern for smearing her as a white nationalist, until her lawsuit forced you to take it down.

Take that L Dublin716 (talk) 05:23, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

The characterization of "alt-right" is not about being more or less conservative. It refers to a focus on white or European identity, and also a certain mode of discourse. Knowles is probably more conservative than Southern on a bunch of social issues, but he did not praise Richard Spencer, he didn't go on a boat to prevent migrants from reaching Europe, he didn't associate with Stefan Molyneux, he didn't appear in podcasts with Nick Fuentes, etc. 108.176.106.24 (talk) 15:55, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

I'm glad you're able to discern the two in that manner but the reality is that "alt-right" is seen as essentially, far-right adjacent. My main point initially wasn't using better sources, rather finding newer sources that title her as conservative (half of them are from 2017). Unlike using a source from 2017 saying someone is a murderer, political views do change over time (imagine if we still said Tulsi Gabbard is liberal because there are sources from 2017-early 2022 that say so). Many good sources saying Southern is a conservative are out there, but unfortunately the few that say she's alt-right will be handpicked instead. 24.156.179.25 (talk) 21:09, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Yeah they actually flat out accused her of the things you are in this comment and she filed a lawsuit, then Wikipedia was forced to take them down.

So you are saying that Alt Right is basically their way of smearing her despite the lawsuit? Interesting that Wikipedia is just toilet paper at this point. Dublin716 (talk) 05:22, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Unfortunately you were trying to be honest here and they are just smear merchants.

It took years of Lauren Southern suing Wikipedia to get them to remove the "White Nationalist" smear because that term actually had a definition.

As far as Alt Right, the meaning of that is less concrete so they are still able to smear her with it.... using Buzzfeed who knowingly published the Steele Dossier, that ended up almost all going unproven.

Then someone who thinks pronouns exists ignores your initial statement to cherry pick out the critique of a dishonored news outlet and only answers that part of it... completely ignoring the smear.

See how someone else just uses alt right any which way and gives no definition of it? It means White nationalist, Neo Nazi.... and Southern filed a lawsuit against Wikipedia for smearing her as a White Nationalist and they took that part down... but left another term that essentially means the same thing as this comment admits. Dublin716 (talk) 05:21, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia itself defines "alt-righ" as white nationalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right 185.105.180.151 (talk) 11:32, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Only because the alt-right article summarizes what other sources have said about it, and they all note strong elements of white nationalism and racism within the alt-right movement. —C.Fred (talk) 13:28, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Lauren Turner has never been married, Southern is a pseudonym

Lauren "Southern" is related to actress Sophie Turner. There is no record of either Lauren being married in either Canadian or Australian registries. 174.49.0.4 (talk) 01:01, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

What are your sources for her alleged name? —C.Fred (talk) 03:20, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

In Her Own Words

As of June 14, 2023, Lauren Southern discusses her own life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INtuIHj7OXc

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqzJmdlJx0k

Seki1949 (talk) 21:15, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

Lauren Southern was divorced by her husband over 18 months ago.

Lauren was divorced by her husband over 18 months ago. 103.106.76.140 (talk) 19:43, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

What reliable sources have published this? —C.Fred (talk) 01:38, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

I don't know exactly how reliable a source it would be considered (as I'm not fully versed in Wikipedia's guidelines), but she did recently post on twitter that she no longer lives with her husband and that she hasn't been doing so for two years. (https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/1666883921790009344)

Would this be considered a reliable source? Emkut7 (talk) 20:17, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

"Lauren was divorced by her husband over 18 months ago." Do you know who divorced who? Divorce is normally a private matter. Perhaps 'Lauren Southern and her husband were divorced in [month] [year]' Seki1949 (talk) 01:44, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Shorten Intro

The introduction has information not necessary for that part of the article. Not only is it quite lengthy but much of the information presented is from events/sources 5-6 years ago. As many followers of her know she has much more nuanced views since her early 20's and to present all that information in the beginning creates a larger presumption to the average reader she still holds those exact views. It would only make sense information years old should be put in other sections of the article which is more of a timeline of her political career. Not to mention such views are not significant/relevant to her current character. 142.116.121.165 (talk) 18:11, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 October 2023

Libertarians are not alt-right. Please remove the slander claiming she is alt-right unless there is verifiable proof. Disagreeing with the extreme left does not qualify. 24.158.139.90 (talk) 01:24, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

There is a little superscript "[a]" beside that claim in the lead, that displays a list of many reliable sources describing Southern as alt-right. HiLo48 (talk) 01:33, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: As above, per sources. No consensus, setting request to answered. Grayfell (talk) 02:12, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 July 2023

Lauren is not alt-right. That’s defamation 66.113.12.68 (talk) 06:49, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit semi-protected}} template.

Per the article, sources describing Southern as "alt-right" include:

• Neiwert, David. "The Far Right Descends on Berkeley for 'Free Speech' and Planned Violence". Hatewatch. Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on 17 August 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
• Wildman, Sarah. "A European alt-right group wants to take to the sea to stop rescuers from saving migrants". Vox. Archived from the original on 6 July 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
• Mortimer, Caroline (20 July 2017). "Far-right activists stopped as they try to block refugee rescue in the Mediterranean". The Independent. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
• Leah, Rachel (2017-12-04). ""Alt-right" women are upset that "alt-right" men are treating them terribly". Salon. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
• Warren, James (7 December 2017). "How women of the alt-right are attacked viciously – by the men of the alt-right". Poynter. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
• Cunningham, Melissa (19 July 2018). "Far-right mouthpiece Lauren Southern 'hit with hefty police bill'". The Age. Retrieved 6 March 2022. Lauren Southern has become the second controversial alt-right commentator to be slapped with a hefty police bill ahead of her controversial show in Melbourne.
• Laruelle, Marlene; Rivera, Ellen (April 2019). "Collusion or Homegrown Collaboration? Connections between German Far Right and Russia" (PDF). Political Capital Policy Research and Consulting Institute. p. 14.
• Brook, Stephen; Hutchinson, Samantha (1 October 2020). "Alt-right activist Lauren Southern dumped from Conservative conference". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 5 October 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
• Lombroso, Daniel (16 October 2020). "Why the Alt-Right's Most Famous Woman Disappeared". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 15 November 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020. Southern was only in her early 20s, but she had already emerged as the alt-right's most influential woman.}}

Sources describing Southern as "far-right" include:

• Gordon, Graeme (27 July 2017). "Why Lauren Southern Got Banned From Patreon". Canadaland. Archived from the original on 18 August 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
• Wilson, Jason (24 August 2018). "White farmers: how a far-right idea was planted in Donald Trump's mind". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
• Baidawi, Adam (3 April 2018). "South Africa Says Australia Retracted Claim of 'Persecuted' White Farmers". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 April 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
• "Canadian far-right activist Lauren Southern barred from Britain for anti-Muslim views". National Post. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
• Oppenheim, Maya (13 March 2018). "Far-right Canadian activist detained in Calais and banned from entering UK". The Independent. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
• "Trump Retweets Far-Right YouTube Star in Attack on Social Media". Bloomberg. 2019. Archived from the original on 4 May 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
• Whyte, Lara (28 September 2018). "The women flying the flag for Generation Identity and far-right politics". The Times. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
• Franco, Aaron (23 February 2021). "'You are not alone': Former far-right activists launch project to fight online radicalization". NBC News. Retrieved 16 April 2021. videos that received millions of views and helped propel far-right figures like Lauren Southern, Tommy Robinson and Infowars host Alex Jones into notoriety}} and right-wing.

Sources describing Southern as "right-wing" include:

• Hosenball, Mark (12 March 2018). "British authorities ban three foreign right-wing activists". Reuters. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
• Farrell, Jeff (14 August 2017). "Anti-immigrant ship trying to block refugees from crossing Mediterranean has funding cancelled". The Independent. Retrieved 9 May 2018.}}

Some academics and journalists have described Southern as a white nationalist, Sources discussing Southern in relation to white nationalism include:

• Lombroso, Daniel (16 October 2020). "Why the Alt-Right's Most Famous Woman Disappeared". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 15 November 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020. By the time Southern went on McInnes's show, I had been following her for nearly a year. I was making a documentary for The Atlantic about the white-nationalist movement, called White Noise. I'd already become accustomed to the accommodations Southern made to stay within a movement whose hatreds are prolific. (Southern denies being a white nationalist.)
• Wilson, Jason (9 August 2020). "Lauren Southern is on the comeback trail, and Australian conservatives are all too happy to help". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 December 2020. And when it comes down to it, there isn't much daylight between the politics of Southern, which are white nationalist, and those of Australian conservatism as it has developed in recent decades.
• Robison-Greene, Rachel; Greene, Richard (2020). Conspiracy Theories: Philosophers Connect the Dots. Open Court. p. 88. ISBN 978-0812694833. Camus's notion of the Great Replacement has been spread by right-wing and white nationalist figures across the world. In July 2018, Lauren Southern, a Canadian alt-right figure posted, a video titled 'The Great Replacement' on YouTube that got over 250,000 views.
• Martineau, Paris (23 October 2019). "Maybe It's Not YouTube's Algorithm That Radicalizes People". Wired. Retrieved 6 January 2021. those that express more explicitly white nationalist messages, like Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern.
• Stern, Alexandra Minna (2019). Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-0807063361. As a home for the small but active alt-right sisterhood, Radio 3Fourteen brings together female alt-righters with their followers on social media. Regulars include ... Canadian white nationalists Lauren Southern and Faith Goldy
• Anderson, Wendy K Z (1 March 2018). "Classifying Whiteness: Unmasking White Nationalist Women's Digital Design through an Intersectional Analysis of Contained Agency". Communication, Culture and Critique. 11 (1): 116–132. doi:10.1093/ccc/tcy002. ISSN 1753-9129. Second, although white nationalist speakers like Milo Yiannopoulos are being banned from speaking on campus, white nationalist women retain their seats at the table. Lauren Southern, following her presentation at the University of Minnesota...
• Strick, Simon (2020). "The Alternative Right, Masculinities, and Ordinary Affect". Right-Wing Populism and Gender. transcript Verlag. pp. 207–230. doi:10.1515/9783839449806-012. ISBN 978-3839449806 – via www.degruyter.com. On behalf of Robinson, a diverse assortment of right-wing celebrities spoke at Whitehall: Canadian white nationalist Lauren Southern...

If you have a problem with reliable sources, please take it up with those sources, or at least explain the issue in more detail. Grayfell (talk) 07:25, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

My only issue with these sources is that they are all outdated. They all take place before her "transformation." Do sources still refer to her as alt-right? Since 2020, it appears that she genuinely has become a different person. However, I do acknowledge that policy is not on her side if no recent sources merely describe her as "conservative". I no longer feel that "alt-right" is an accurate descriptor of her current views (I was and still am genuinely disgusted by her past worldview). Is there any way we can replace these outdated references with newer ones. I have been struggling to find any. Scorpions1325 (talk) 00:13, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

The issue here is not about reliable sources, but that Wikipedia labels Southern as "alt-right" in the encyclopedic voice. The choice to do this shows editorial bias, is counterproductive, and brings Wikipedia into disrepute. The editorial decision here would be analogous to the article on Kamala Harris beginning "Kamala Devi Harris... is a woke[a] American politician..." with the superscript citing all the reliable sources who have described Kamala Harris as "woke", and then saying to readers "if you have a problem with that, take it up with these sources". Wikipedia should never present opinion or labels as fact, but should instead contextualize. Here it would be better to say something like "described as alt right by many mainstream media outlets and social scientists".

Imagine someone coming to this article to find out more about Southern, having enjoyed some clip of her on youtube. They will read Wikipedia saying she is alt-right (citing a bunch of liberal sources), conclude that Wikipedia is biassed, leave the page, and look for information elsewhere. So you have actually deterred this person from reading legitimate criticism of Southern, and also given them reason to bad-mouth Wikipedia to their friends. Lose-lose. Geometry guy 21:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

If you think Wikipedia shouldn't be describing individuals known for their political views in wikivoice from the left <-> right spectrum, you're going to need much broader consensus than you'll be able to achieve at one single article talk page, because this is extremely common practice when a person's political views are widely described in RS. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 21:41, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

This is not describing political views but applying a pejorative label that the person does not accept. If you claim this is widely acceptable in the wikivoice by broad consensus, please point me to the policies and discussions which support your position. Also can you give some examples where a pejorative label is applied in the wikivoice to a living left wing politician. Geometry guy 13:19, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Does Southern now reject the label of alt-right? She's identified with it in the past. Her tweet also demonstrates that the term isn't necessarily a pejorative. Pokerplayer513 (talk) 22:03, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

I don't know. It would help a lot if we could find something more recent than her piling on to a hashtag in 2016. "Altright", like "woke", can be pejorative or not, depending on who is saying it when, and with what meaning they intend. A sex positive feminist might proudly identify as "slut", but that does not necessarily mean we should use that label in the wikivoice. My impression is that "woke" and "altright" are both trending in the pejorative direction as the political debate becomes more polarised. All of this means an NPOV encyclopedia should be even more careful how these labels are used in articles. Geometry guy 21:16, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Geometry guy, besides her 2016 tweet there's also all the RS that was provided above and the fact that there doesn't appear to be any sources denying that she is alt-right. So it seems like it's ok to leave in. And she just seems to hold the alt-right ideology or do you disagree? How would you characterize her (regardless of RS)? And alt-right is a political movement with specific criteria and people who self identify with the label. "Woke" is an adjective with a loose definition and isn't a clearly defined political movement. Same with slut. They don't seem like the same thing. Also any political label can be pejorative if applied to the wrong person and that definitely goes for the altright label. Southern has self identified with the altright label in the past so it seems accurate until RS with due weight contradicts it. Pokerplayer513 (talk) 01:13, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

I disagree that "alt-right" is pejorative. It's a descriptor of a specific ideology, not unlike "far right". GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 22:57, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

You disagree because you yourself are a leftist, and it is convenient for you to pretend it isn't a pejorative. That's all there is to it.

As for her being "far right", that's equally pejorative. It's literally a meme on her channel now because she's been accused of it for so long. She even made an entire video mocking the idea of her being far right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQrnH20sVHk&t=261s Winnzy (talk) 13:53, 14 March 2024 (UTC)