Chechen nationalists are a very underrated community on Wikipedia.
Like take this article (
archive). It's a giant mess where a bunch of Chechen nationalists trying to spin folk stories as real history. They have a bunch of citations, but the citations are all Chechen folklorists (and
this guy, described by Wikipedia as a "Circassian folklorist and North Caucasus independence activist") and Chechen nationalists whose books include weird claims that historically known Mongol leaders who were ethnic Alans (aka Ossetians) were actually Chechens, which is hilariously inflammatory given the region has Balkans-tier ethnic relations. And all the sources are in Russian, yet there's no Russian Wikipedia article (but there sure is a Ukrainian Wikipedia article lol). Apparently the people writing this got banned from Russian Wikipedia for the nonsense they are peddling.
The page on the Chechens themselves is great too (
archive). It claims they emigrated from the Fertile Crescent around 10,000-8,000 BC (so helped invent agriculture), are "genetically, linguistically and anthropologically considered the descendants of the Hurrians and Urartians", which comes with 10 citations, all to Chechen nationalists and fringe sources, including a German anthropologist from 1932 who writes the Chechens are not actually Caucasians, but "are the offspring of the great Hyperborean-Paleo-Asian tribe, displaced to the Caucasus, which extended from Turan through northern Mesopotamia and into Canaan."
From what I can tell, this is taking actual facts like "the ancestors of the Chechens waged a guerilla war against the Mongols" and "Urartu and the Hurrians spoke an unknown language, but it may have been in the same family as Chechen" and spinning it into crazy territory approaching the Proto-Ukrainians and the kangz of Egypt.