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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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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.

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— Assignment last updated by GiancarloBro (talk) 02:50, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

About sentence in the lead

I wanted to discuss a sentence recently added to the lead of the article. It is "On July 2021, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger have said that the Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia site have became a ‘propaganda’ for left-leaning ‘establishment’ worldwide.".

Although the paragraph it is on discusses the materials in spreading propaganda, the range they have, and that bots spread propaganda, this sentence seems to speak more about the more specific topic of perceived ideological bias in Wikipedia more than about the general topic of propaganda, and might fit better in Ideological bias on Wikipedia than in this article.

As I perceived outright deleting/moving it might be a controversial move, I wanted to discuss it here before making any changes to the page.

Apolo234 (talk) 14:08, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lets turn this into a "good article"

What are some ideas for turning this article from a vital C-class article to a GA? Or at least, a B-class article? Philomathes2357 (talk) 07:07, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to pitch in @Philomathes2357. The first thought that comes to mind is to start by making the article more global and less Western-focused, including in the examples and images. Superb Owl (talk) 21:13, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Many of these examples are not either true propaganda or ineffectual

Posters shown were examples of advertising rather than true propaganda. True propaganda is convincingly able to engineer consent of the mass population. Merely being racist or stereotypical or even nationalistic does not make them true propaganda 97.120.210.206 (talk) 09:49, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]