"Starting with the first sentence ""Macaca (also written as macaque) ..."" there are no cites.  In both English and French dictionaries ""macaque"" (pronounced mə-kăk’ or mə-käk’) rhymes with ""a back"" or ""the sack"".  In all other Franco-English words (plaque, opaque, plaque, antique, unique, clique, bisque, toque, baroque, oblique, and torque) the -que is a ""k"" sound; making all further references to ""macaque"" irrelevant.  

Of the references to columnist Taki Theodoracopulos, #8 is unavailable for verification and #9 has no connection to the alleged slur.  Reference 13, The Chicago Tribune's  Swamp Blog, like most other blogs, fails Wiki's reliable, published sources and neutral point of view policies. 

I'd discuss this further, but Wiki's founder wrote, seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative ""I heard it somewhere"" pseudo information is to be tagged with a ""needs a cite"" tag.  Wrong.  It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced.  This is true of all information, but it is particularly true of negative information about living persons.''""

Article material solely using references 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 13 will be removed. Wikipedia's burden of evidence lies with the editors, and outlandish claims beg strong sources.
 

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