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‘A difficult line’: meet the editors tackling Wikipedia’s arms trade pages • Oct. 21, 2026, 6:57 AM ET (The Guardian)

Wikipedia kept 91% of banned editor's Israel-related edits, ADL finds • Oct. 15, 2026, 1:27 PM ET (Jerusalem Post)

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