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Isaac Stanley-Becker (September 25, 2019). "Checking the Web on Hunter Biden? A 36-year-old physicist helps decide what you'll see". Washington Post. Retrieved September 25, 2019. The page has been viewed nearly 230,000 times in the past 30 days, more than the page for Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, or for Vice President Pence. Wikipedia dominates Google's search results and helps supply the information spit out by Siri and Amazon Alexa.
Fang, Lee (August 15, 2023). "Emails Show Hunter Biden Hired Specialists to Quietly Airbrush Wikipedia". Lee Fang. Retrieved August 17, 2023. Powerful individuals and corporations routinely tap specialized consultants to edit Wikipedia for more favorable entries, often through anonymous accounts designed to appear organic. Emails from Hunter Biden's laptop show that he made continuous efforts to airbrush his image and the Wikipedia articles associated with his Ukrainian benefactors.
Rondón, Emmanuel Alejandro (August 15, 2023). "Hunter Biden hired specialists to clean up his image and that of his Ukrainian associates on Wikipedia". Voz Media. Retrieved August 17, 2023. Independent journalist Lee Fang released a series of emails and evidence showing that Hunter Biden . . . hired specialists to quietly edit biographies on Wikipedia in order to launder his image and that of his Ukrainian associates.

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Navy Joan Roberts

Latest comment: 7 months ago5 comments4 people in discussion

There is hidden text in the article saying that a consensus was reached two and a half years ago that Biden's daughter, Navy Joan Roberts, should not be named in the article. Since conesensus can change, it may be worth revisiting this consensus. Navy Joan is already mentioned in two Wikipedia articles, Family of Joe Biden and List of children of presidents of the United States, so it seems pointless not to name her in this article.

Not naming her also looks odd given that Biden's four other children are named (one of whom is younger than Navy Joan). Green Montanan (talk) 19:41, 14 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Please do not attempt edits in violation of current consensus; if you would like to change consensus it requires a proper RfC. Biden is listed in the Infobox as having 5 children. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sleyece (talk • contribs) 23:00, 5 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

I've removed your insertion of the child's name. TarnishedPath^talk 22:57, 15 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

And I removed the children's names from those other two pages. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:12, 15 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Cheers. TarnishedPath^talk 23:14, 15 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

False Allegations

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

How is it fakse allegations that Joe Biden pressured Ukraine to fire a prodecutor when he was VP? There is literally a video where Joe Biden brags about it (I have the video). ~2026-44625-94 (talk) 02:55, 15 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

President Biden had him fired because he believed he was corrupt. The prosecutor was not investigating Hunter Biden. Trump brought the accusation up in a conversation with Ukraine President Zelensky, which resulted in Trump's first impeachment. But Zelensky seemed confused by the claim. So the claim is false. TFD (talk) 03:35, 15 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

why no mention of Hunter's $LAPTOP meme coin?

Latest comment: 7 days ago5 comments3 people in discussion

From The New York Times:

Hunter Biden's Crypto Offering Plummets Upon Launching, by Sharon LaFraniere, 9 September 2026.

Where could this information go in his BLP article? Thanks. ~2026-48914-61 (talk) 02:51, 10 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

The short answer is that nobody has added it yet; the long answer is that it's currently fairly minor and, while a sentence on it somewhere might be reasonable, it's hard to see exactly where it would go. I guess somewhere in the "later activities" section? --Aquillion (talk) 03:12, 10 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Concur, preferably one sentence in "later activities", two sentences max, and no mention in lead unless and until this proves to have WP:LASTING impact. Carguychris (talk) 21:41, 10 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

That sounds good to me. Thanks for your input. ~2026-48914-61 (talk) 22:17, 10 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Someone added it and I've made some edits. Carguychris (talk) 22:19, 10 September 2026 (UTC)Reply