Talk:Dan and Farris Wilks

Edit request
would someone please add info that Wilks brothers own The Daily Wire (led by Ben Shapiro) per this "In addition to their political and charitable giving, the Wilkses also own the Daily Wire, an online outlet led by conservative author and pundit Ben Shapiro." https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-lot-of-butthurt-to-go-around-as-breitbart-battle-splits-billionaires 68.231.27.254 (talk) 14:50, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Strong-arming the BLM
The article as written has this sentence (emphases mine): "The Wilks brothers gained notoriety in Montana for attempting to strong-arm the Bureau of Land Management. After the BLM refused the Wilks’ request to swap a parcel of public land for a piece of their Duffee Hills ranch over the widespread objections of local hunters the Wilks brothers shut down an important access road to the Wild and Scenic Missouri River". That is cited out to this article. What that article says is, "They gained notoriety in Montana after they tried to talk the Bureau of Land Management into swapping some land for the public inholding on their Lewistown-area ranch known as the Duffee Hills, a haven for elk and elk hunters who can fly into the little landing strip. When the BLM refused after an outcry from hunters, the Wilks shut down an access road to the Wild and Scenic Missouri River." That makes me think that the cited-to article doesn't justify the use of the word "strong-arm" in the WP article and therefore to have veered into BLP-violating territory. Novellasyes (talk) 18:38, 19 October 2020 (UTC)


 * The whole article needs a cite check. I recently removed some very odd verbiage about "horse trading" that appeared nowhere in the sourcing. That was probably a reference to Vote trading, which also wasn't in the source, and is likely a WP:BLP violation. Marquardtika (talk) 18:42, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Idaho Statesman paywall Comment
Currently, a person must subscribe to this publication for access to any of its content. It would be a welcomed change if somebody would include links to the archived versions of the Statesman's news items used as sources.--Quisqualis (talk) 15:43, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

Funding local government for surveillance
Does anybody have any information about Dan and Ferris Wilkes funding Eastland county and surrounding counties with the resources to conduct illegal surveillance on the civilians because I've heard that that's what they've been doing 166.205.101.61 (talk) 08:48, 12 April 2022 (UTC)