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Ashley Feinberg (14 March 2019). "Facebook, Axios And NBC Paid This Guy To Whitewash Wikipedia Pages". HuffPost. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
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Maggie Serota (14 March 2019). "This Guy Gets Paid to Help Edit the Wikipedia Pages of Thin-Skinned Journalists". Spin (magazine). Retrieved 5 June 2019.

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Requested move 5 August 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved, rather move Axios (disambiguation) to Axios. (closed by non-admin page mover) —Nnadigoodluck🇳🇬 09:25, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Axios (website) → Axios – The website/news org is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC now. Currently the Axios link is just a redirect to the article for Vardar. The pageview statistics page shows that Axios (website) is the primary usage. Bait30 ^{Talk 2 me pls?} 18:05, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – The redirect Axios has 1,983 views/month and Axios (disambiguation) has 1,783 views/month, which to me indicates a significant number of readers looking for something else than the river. However, the significance of this three year old website is much more temporary. Not opposed to the disambiguation page occupying the base title again. – Thjarkur (talk) 18:50, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It makes little sense that the current Axios page is a redirect. Additionally, the page Vardar has 93,196 views since 2015 and Axios (website) has 716,440, despite existing for less time. I think it Axios should to to Axios (website), or at the very least to the disambig.Eccekevin (talk) 22:09, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral regarding the proposed move and would not oppose it. However, taking into account the high number of views for Axios (website), I would strongly support the move Axios (disambiguation) → Axios. It would be instructive to glance at the 137 links currently flowing to the redirect Axios since it is clear that a large number of those are intended for Axios (website). —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 22:22, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Weak supportThis is a tough one! Axios the news site seems to be almost certainly the intended target for readers searching this term. And while I would say the river certainly has more long term notability (enough to overcome that reader interest if they had the same commonly used English name), when looking at the river as it is called Axios that is less clear.--Yaksar (let's chat) 22:32, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support the move Axios (disambiguation) → Axios Eccekevin (talk) 23:12, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Support this also.--Ortizesp (talk) 03:52, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral regarding the proposed move and would not oppose it. However, taking into account the high number of views for Axios (website), I would strongly support the move Axios (disambiguation) → Axios. (per Roman Spinner, above.) Onanoff (talk) 08:59, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the second longest river of Greece is more notable than the website named after it. "A few miles east of Pella flows the Axios, draining much of the central Balkans." whereas Axios (website) is clearly a website. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:15, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- The website is not named after the river, it's named after the Greek for "worthy". Also, there's no reason why a river should be more relevant than a website, it depends on the river and depends on the website. In this case, I would say that at least for the English Wikipedia, the website is currently more noteworthyEccekevin (talk) 08:42, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Move DAB to the base name per the above, no clear primary topic, by usage its the website, by long-term significance its the river, DAB is best compromise. Crouch, Swale (talk) 16:30, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Move Axios (disambiguation) to the base page name, per User:Crouch, Swale and others above. There is no clear primary topic among the number of alternatives offered. BD2412 T 01:23, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: It seems that most people agree that instead of moving "Axios (website)" to "Axios", I should've requested "Axios (disambiguation)" to "Axios". Is there anything procedurewise that needs to be done? Or someway to move this discussion to Talk:Axios (disambiguation)? BD2412 I'm pinging you since you're an admin. Bait30 ^{Talk 2 me pls?} 02:21, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - Nothing special needs to be done. The closing administrator will be able to handle the altered consensus without difficulty. BD2412 T 02:24, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    - Per Wikipedia:Requested moves/Closing instructions#Moves of other pages a note on the DAB page is probably unnessesarry since the bot has already notified the current target of the redirect (the river). Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:06, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Axios's firing of journalist Ben Montgomery

In March 2023 Axios fired journalist Ben Montgomery for calling a press release by Ron DeSantis "propaganda." https://floridapolitics.com/archives/595786-axios-reporter-ben-montgomery-fired-after-calling-gov-desantis-press-release-propaganda/ 173.88.246.138 (talk) 05:27, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Advert tag 2023

I did some cleanup to address the tag added by RatedPending (talk · contribs). I removed the entirety of the large edit by brand-new editor AC1BT (talk · contribs), though the NYTimes refs should be considered for inclusion. I also removed content that was unreferenced or referenced only to Axios' own publications.

The focus on it's early history, especially 2017, could use a more thorough review and cleanup. --Hipal (talk) 17:28, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I just trimmed out a bit more puffery, but I think this is in a pretty reasonable state now, so I removed the tag. StereoFolic (talk) 16:03, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lying about trump

Many people are talking about the huge lies that Axios is telling about how Trump “is no longer calling the 2020 election rigged.” This doesn’t look like leaning left at all. 2600:1700:8DF0:3A10:84BC:34A9:91EE:B630 (talk) 18:06, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I assume you're talking about this. It's not our place to decide whether Axios (or any outlet) leans left or right; we report the assessments of reliable sources that comment on such matters. We could consider describing this controversy in the article, but IMO it seems pretty minor and unlikely to have sustained importance. StereoFolic (talk) 18:18, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Damage control public relations editing

It maybe necessary to review the article and "damage control" matters may need to be restored to ensure NPOV. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wikipedia-paid-editing-pr-facebook-nbc-axios_n_5c63321be4b03de942967225 and also, https://www.spin.com/2019/03/wikipedia-editor-axios-nbc-chuck-todd-jonathan-swan/ which is a bit of a spin off from that story. Looking through edit history, one user questioned the source, but this article was written by a senior reporter, not a contributor, so WP:HUFFPO might be a good source. Graywalls (talk) 23:01, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, makes sense. My eyebrow was raised while reading the article so I went to the talk page. I've taken a few shots at toning it down. 104.232.119.107 (talk) 14:21, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]