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Etymology

I made a few changes to the etymology section. The Dickson source that was already mentioned in the article says that "krank" was possibly an idiosyncratic invention by a single author, and modern use of the term may overstate its historical use, which he says was "virtually unheard of in the 19th century" (see this entry in his book). I also added a {{relevance-inline}} tag to an unsourced statement about someone who played a character named Kookie. I'm thinking to myself, "So what?" Has any reliable source connected this character to the popularization of the terms "crank" or "kook"? If not, we should probably remove this. I tweaked the part about the Daily Mail's definition of "kook" because the claim it "may have first appeared" in that article was completely unsourced. You can't cite a primary source as evidence that it was the first usage of a term. You need to find a reliable source that explicitly calls it the first use. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:51, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have often wondered, but never found any evidence, if 'kook' might refer to the followers of Abraham Isaac Kook and his son. Padres Hana (talk) 15:06, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Removing the image

I removed the cartoon because the original source did not directly call this legislator a "crank." Here's the source: https://www.newspapers.com/image/480015931/?terms=square%2Bthe%2Bcircle. Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 07:52, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sourcing

I'm tempted to just go to Mass deletions of unsourced sections of this page. The lead is nearly completely made up without any kind of sourcing at all. editors just can't come to Wikipedia and make stuff up. It's not enough that it sounds reasonable. Wikipedia relies on sourced material. Much of what is in the lead is total BS. Why not start with an argument that relates the word to the word cranky. Jackhammer111 (talk) 21:25, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The lead is supposed to summarize the rest of the article and therefore does not need sourcing. --Hob Gadling (talk) 09:55, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Return

We need to return this one, it was a bad thing to delete and was actually valuable. Who could let this be deleted? TheZelos (talk) 17:49, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]