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Rose, Janus (November 30, 2023). "Wikipedia Editor Who First Noted Henry Kissinger's Death Has Become an 'Instant Legend'". Vice. Retrieved November 30, 2023. Wikipedia users are celebrating the first user to edit Henry Kissinger's Wikipedia page after the widely-hated American statesman and war criminal was announced dead on Wednesday at the age of 100.
Huggins, Kathrine (November 30, 2023). "'I'd put that on my resume': Wikipedia editor brags she was 'the girl' who changed 'is' to 'was' on Henry Kissinger's page". The Daily Dot. Retrieved December 1, 2023. Others revealed that the post was how they found out about Kissinger's passing.

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can someone find "Kißenger" in the Internet pls

Latest comment: 6 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

He was born in Germany and ss is usually become ß so can someone find any source that say "Heinz Alfred Kißinger" as his born name? Phudeptrai47540370870 (talk) 11:58, 13 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

that's not how it works, Kissingen is always spelled with a double s. — jonas (talk) 13:36, 25 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

Nonsensical sentence

Latest comment: 5 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

This sentence is incomplete and doesn’t make sense:

Historian Jeffrey Kimball developed the theory that Kissinger and the Nixon administration accepted a South Vietnamese collapse provided a face-saving decent interval passed between U.S. withdrawal and defeat. ~2026-18803-67 (talk) 08:07, 26 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

~2026-18803-67: I'm not sure what is "nonsensical" or unclear about the sentence in question. The full paragraph does a fine job of elaborating on the "decent interval" concept, which it defines as "a delayed defeat ... [after] '18 months or some period'".

If even that explanation is still not clear enough, then we can always merge additional content from the main Decent interval article.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 06:01, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Mentioning he's a war criminal should take precedence

Latest comment: 4 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Should read "Henry Alfred Kissinger[a] (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American war criminal, diplomat, political scientist, and politician ~2026-19729-85 (talk) 11:29, 23 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Obviously not, that is an inappropriate tone for an encyclopedia. soetermans. ^{↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK} 12:13, 23 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Kissinger is Not a Ritchie Boy

Latest comment: 1 month ago1 comment1 person in discussion

While Kissinger was CIC, he is not a Ritchie Boy. We have a letter our late Ritchie Boy researcher received from Kissinger's office stating he was never at Camp Ritchie, the letter dates to 2010, well past the declassification of the Camp Ritchie information. He is also not on any roster for classes at Camp Ritchie MITC. ~2026-47101-85 (talk) 19:15, 29 August 2026 (UTC)Reply