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 ::I agree it's good to finally have this discussion. However, I would like to sound a note of caution here on concerns that seem related to WP:RECENT. An attempt was made to address this by making Tea Party Protests, 2009 time specific and WP:SPLITTING off the article because 1) there was a unique set of circumstances that formed and shaped events surrounding the Tea Party protests in 2009 and 2) there was a demand for an article that encapsulated the movement more broadly. Now, I understand the need for uniformity and proposing a shift from a date-specific article to a more general ""Tea Party protests"" (without the year) article, but not at the expense of discarding completely relevant and well-sourced content. For example,  most recent proposal to begin removing or greatly reducing content from the Astroturfing section and the Responses section. First, there is no WP:DEADLINE. Second, before you start removing the Astroturf section, I'd like to you to demonstrate that the majority view is ""these are grassroot organizations"" and the minority view ""that they are astroturfing."" It's simply POV that ""In earlier months there were many sources suggesting astroturfing but in recent months I'm not sure I have seen a single suggestion that these are astroturf."" The current article has at least two sources that suggest astroturfing in the last two months. My 2 cents.    

  
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