Wikipedia talk:Administrator intervention against vandalism

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President, Harry Truman article

I’m too old to know how this works, but I thought that Wikipedia was an information page? When I tried to look up President Harry Truman, there is posted a huge “Elon Musk is a Nazi”. So this is actually a political website now? 2603:9001:3F03:A6B6:951A:8F1B:CC49:C1FB (talk) 20:37, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This was reported at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#What_is_happening_here?--it seems like someone vandalized a template, which is a particularly sneaky way of inserting text to a whole bunch of articles without anyone noticing. My understanding is that steps have been taken to reverse the damage and prevent it from happening again, but it may be a few hours before the changes are propagated to every instance of the template. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 20:45, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]