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Former featured articleMark Felt 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.
Main Page trophyThis article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on January 8, 2006.
On this day... Article milestones
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June 22, 2005Featured article candidateNot promoted
October 9, 2005Featured article candidatePromoted
September 1, 2008Featured article reviewDemoted
On this day... Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on May 31, 2018, May 31, 2020, and May 31, 2022.
Current status: Former featured article


Bad sentence

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This sentence in the third paragraph is, at minimum, badly punctuated (e.g. "pyramid" needs a capital letter and following comma); I'd go further and call it unclear and badly written - I can't quite tell what it's trying to say:

Felt lives in Santa Rosa, California, and has completed an update of his 1979 autobiography, The FBI pyramid which he wrote along with his son, provides information on his past as "Deep Throat,"but not revealing himself as such just yet (it will take 33 years.)

Confirmation

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Confirmed by Woodward; [1]

The Washington Post article cites Ben Bradlee as confirming Felt, he is one of the four men who knows the identity; [2]

traitor

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I deleted this sentence:

Felt is now considered by most Americans to be a traitor.

as it is inflammatory and unsubstantiated. If you want this in the article you need to back it up and rephrase it, e.g.:

According to the Blandy and Jones survey 72% of U.S. citizens consider Felt a traitor (external link to survey information)

Cheers, Funkyj

Tell us something we don't already know

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Listen to the radio: Democracy Now, 6-2-05 rean a segment introduced as follows:

Mark Felt -- who was exposed this week as Deep Throat -- was one of only two FBI officials ever to be convicted for ordering COINTELPRO operations. In 1980 he was convicted for ordering FBI agents to break into the home of Jennifer Dohrn and other associates of the Weather Underground. He was later pardoned by President Reagan. Jennifer Dohrn discusses the FBI surveillance, break-ins and a secret FBI proposal to kidnap her infant. Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez also reveals that as a leader of the Young Lords that he, too, was also a target of a similar FBI campaign. [includes rush transcript]

Timeline discrepancy needs a fix or explanation

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The article says,

The stress of following her husband's career as well as the separation of her daughter, resulted in Audrey suffering a nervous breakdown in 1954

But it also says that Joan didn't graduate from high school until 1961, so how could Joan's separation have contributed to a nervous breakdown in 1954? 2601:281:D880:7880:CC13:9994:AE2C:8CC4 (talk) 01:13, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

1954 doesn't make any sense here

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"The stress of following her husband's career as well as the separation of her daughter resulted in Audrey suffering a nervous breakdown in 1954, while Felt was in Seattle" 2600:6C4E:1A7F:2981:294A:D281:60C9:94F1 (talk) 10:34, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]