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There is a terrific amount of information relating to disinformation on Wikipedia, and no one article can possibly deal with it all. I have been thinking that what is really needed is an organizational box, similar to the ones for "War" (seen on Disinformation) and "Alternative medicine" (seen onMMR vaccine and autism) :"This article is part of a series on Disinformation" Organizing disinfo-related articles in this way would be a terrific help to both readers and editors. It would give us all a better sense of the problem that we face. It could also give us a better sense of where the current disinformation article's content should fit.
Brainstorming here (feel free to suggest more/better titles), it could have subsections for articles relating to various target areas (international warfare, national politics, medicine, climate, environmental protection, other scientific research), by country?, tactics used, cognitive biases (could we just link to thelist of cognitive biases?), tactics for opposing it, disinformers (companies, news media, people), anti-disinformation organizations, etc. Would other folks be interested in helping to work on this? Is it something you would use on articles?MaryMO (AR) (talk)17:14, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
After a little more digging I found that there is a footer (previously a sidebar) forTemplate:Misinformation. It could use more organization but it might be a starting point. It is currently titled as "Disinformation and misinformation", and I am a bit concerned that there is a potential for it to include "anything someone got wrong". For example, theBermuda triangle may be anurban legend, but I'm not sure that it qualifies as disinformation. (This is one of the reasons why I prefer to use "Disinformation" as a term rather than "Misinformation".)MaryMO (AR) (talk)
@MaryMO (AR) I think that you are correct. I think that the Table 2 ofthis reference can be helpful to organize the article and such template. The way how the article frames it is that disinformation is a strategic campaign to insert deceptions to advance an adversarial narrative. So, the Bermuda Triangle may be a harmless urban legend, but the myth ofreptilians control the government or immigrants bringing diseases can be the operationalization of a disinformation campaign.
