Minor Point of Style 
I recommend that the following two sentences be combined, to form the second paragraph. Apparently, User:Mel Etitis thinks otherwise.
     Numerous independent investigations have repeatedly proven it to be a plagiarism and a hoax.[1]
     Scholars generally agree that the Okhrana, the secret police of the Russian Empire,
     fabricated the text in the late 1890s or early 1900s.
Will Administrator Mel Etitis kindly explain himself - the reason for his effective reversion? -