User:Space4Time3Continuum2x/Signpost Opinion1

I recently came across two articles mentioning a date published by a reliable source. I knew—from looking at a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization’s tax forms published online by ProPublica—that the date was wrong and that the related tax-exempt 501 (c)(4) organization allegedly created in 2019 had already existed at least three years earlier when the parent company had finally managed to figure out how to file a correct tax return. Unfortunately, ProPublica hadn’t published the tax forms of the related organization. I then called my buddy Herb over at the IRS and asked him what they have on file, added the information to the WP article, and immediately got hit with the OR club.

Well, no. In the United States, the tax filings of tax-exempt organizations are published online by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). I went on the IRS search page and looked up the related organization whose tax forms said that it had existed seven years earlier, added the information to the WP article, immediately got hit with the OR club, and my edit was reverted. My consolation prize: my edit was deemed a good-faith edit.

So now not one, but two WP articles again claim that the nonprofit was created in 2019, based on one journalist’s false assumption that just because the nonprofit had a new fundraising website, the nonprofit was also new. Sign of the times: the journalist cross-checked the new nonprofit on … Twitter, found an account from 2015 that hadn’t tweeted but had 13 followers, including the leader of both companies. It still hasn’t tweeted, but now has 512 followers.

What am I getting at? D-d if I know. Anyone heading for the Klanbake?