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cover-up

attempt to conceal evidence of wrongdoing or failures
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Summary

cover-up ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (548 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • cover-up is a type of deception[2].
  • cover-up is a type of lie[3].
  • cover-up is a type of hiding[4].
  • cover-up's Commons category is recorded as Concealment[5].
  • cover-up's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cover-ups[6].
  • cover-up's partially coincident with is recorded as obstruction of justice[7].
  • cover-up's partially coincident with is recorded as frameup[8].
  • cover-up's partially coincident with is recorded as misprision[9].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include deception[2], lie[3], and hiding[4].

Why It Matters

cover-up ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (548 views/month).[1] cover-up has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] cover-up is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · MsynBot bot · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Cover-ups
    Wikipedia languages → ['de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'he', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'nl', 'no', 'pt']
    Sitelink count → 14
    Subclass of → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ remove badge intentional sitelink to redirect from jawiki sitelink; sitelink points to a non-redirect page #msynbotTask10"
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