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Errors by user Robotic131225189311

1. This edit is clearly incorrect per source and 1RR prevents me from fixing it. 2. @Robotic131225189311: Please refer to the ArbCom remedies template near the top of this page. In short, you can't simply re-revert here. Even without the remedies, we don't resolve editing disagreements by revert and edit summary between two editors; that is what the article talk page is for. Thank you. ―Mandruss ☎ 08:29, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

@Mandruss:  Done - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 09:11, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, but only partly done. I still dispute this edit, and the editsum shows cluelessness as to WP:DUE and WP:LEAD. ―Mandruss ☎ 09:18, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Ah! I wondered why so much fuss over an extra 's'. Hopefully fixed now. - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 09:22, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. Is correcting violations of the ArbCom restrictions exempt from 1RR? If so, I could have saved you the trouble. If not, you violated 1RR to save me from committing that egregious offense (thanks yet again). Anyone? Bueller? ―Mandruss ☎ 09:25, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
I don't believe that it is exempt. It's arguable whether it should be; I can see good reasons for both exempt & not. I am relying on the definition of "revert" at WP:3RR - An edit or a series of consecutive edits that undoes other editors' actions—whether in whole or in part—counts as a revert. - As my edits were consecutive, they are one revert. Of course, I'm happy to plead my case at WP:AE if anyone feels so inclined. - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 11:25, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
This makes no sense.[1] Even if it were appropriate for the lead, it's awkwardly worded and haphazardly placed without regard for chronology. Not happening. Doc talk 10:24, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Ok. So he's reinstated the same bit of crap for the 3rd time within 24 hours.[2] Can we get a block for 1RR violation and can someone remove it? It's sloppy and completely undue for the lead. Embarrassingly bad. Doc talk 10:43, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
It is absolutely unacceptable. This editor needs to be blocked. Now. Doc talk 11:45, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
This could be a first, me completely agreeing with Doc. This is not the kind of article where aggressive incompetence even after warnings and corrections can be tolerated, and a DE complaint at ANI should not be required. Is Bishonen in the house by any chance? ―Mandruss ☎ 11:54, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
(As surprising this may seem to some, not every single "Trump supporter" is a knuckle-dragging, xenophobic, misogynistic, racist, LGBQT-hatin', wall-worshipping, inbred cretin. I'm honored that we can agree on some things. Huzzah!) Doc talk 07:51, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
I had no idea you are a "Trump supporter", and I honestly don't categorize editors that way anyway. I categorize them according to whether they are supporters of Wikipedia policy, process, and good faith collaboration. None of which is a comment about you either way. ―Mandruss ☎ 08:03, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
One foot out the door, but I'll look at it when I get back. Bishonen | talk 12:04, 10 November 2016 (UTC).

I kind of wish somebody had warned the user about edit warring sooner, and about the 1RR restriction rather than just the usual 3RR warning. But I see they have continued to revert, at least a fourth time, after being warned, so I've blocked for 31 hours. Also they should be alerted to the discretionary sanctions for American politics and BLP, I've done that. Nobody had pointed them specifically to the restrictions at the top of this talkpage, on their own page, which is always a good idea as soon as it looks like a new user (= new to the page) is unaware of them. (I've done it now.) You can say they ought to read the warnings at the top of the page without having to be told to, but in practice I don't think we expect that. There's a daunting and off-putting amount of stuff at the top of the page. (I'm glad somebody at least collapsed the wikiprojects, but still.) And who knows if they ever looked at the talkpage? So, only the short 3RR block for now. Bishonen | talk 13:22, 10 November 2016 (UTC).

See my opening comment here. With respect, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect even a newer user to respond to a freaking ping and read what was written there. WP:CIR. They had more than ample advice and warning, even if we failed to follow procedure to the letter. Thanks for the block. ―Mandruss ☎ 14:00, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Together with the warnings, it should hopefully hold them. Bishonen | talk 14:03, 10 November 2016 (UTC).
One of the things about the DS, as I understand it, is that people generally will not be sanctioned for violating them until after they have received the OFFICIAL warning on their talk page. When you put {{subst:alert|ap}} on their talk page, it gets logged, and they are thereafter expected to abide by the rules and be sanctioned if they don't. It creates an actual record, which they cannot remove, showing that they have been warned. "They should have read the notice" or "I pinged them" is not considered to be adequate, documented warning in terms of issuing blocks and/or bans (except possibly in the most egregious cases). Anyhow, if you see someone violating the DS, don't mess around with other ways of warning them. Put the template on their talk page. In my case I usually add a custom-written paragraph explaining exactly what that means and what behavior of theirs triggered it. But it is the official templated warning that puts them on notice. Bishonen, would you agree with this? --MelanieN (talk) 16:33, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Yes, MelanieN, I have to agree. It's a very bureaucratic system, but we have to comply with it, because it's only the official alert template that "counts", which matters a lot if the user appeals our discretionary sanctions. On the upside, it's not hard to add a ds alert template. Melanie has provided the specific American politics template above. This is the general form of the alert, for all areas: {{subst:alert|topic}}. Replace "topic" with the official and also intuitive code for the topic area (ap for American politics, blp for biographies, cc for climate change, and so on). To make doubly sure, there's a list of those topic codes here (scroll down a little). Bishonen | talk 16:53, 10 November 2016 (UTC).
Well I'm just learning this after 3.5 years and about 30K edits, and it's not like I don't pay attention or don't care about doing things the right way. The logical conclusion is that the DS are largely pointless unless there happens to be someone at my level or above around. "Bureaucracy" is spot on, and it's my understanding that excessive bureaucracy is something to be avoided, not embraced. Added to my list of Just How Things Are At En-wiki, Deal With It. ―Mandruss ☎ 17:50, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Climate change denial should be mentioned in the lead

His climate change denial is mentioned in the body of the article, with several reliable sources ("Trump rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, repeatedly contending that global warming is a "hoax."). Many RS have discussed his climate change denial and how serious these views are, so this is certainly not a lesser issue, many RS agree it's one of the most important political issues when it comes to Trump[3]. Therefore it should clearly be mentioned in the lead. --Tataral (talk) 07:28, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

It has not received a lot of attention and therefore does not belong there (yet). TFD (talk) 07:49, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
IMHO, it has received a lot of attention (at least outside the US) although we may wait for a few days to put it in the lead. Jean-Jacques Georges (talk) 08:58, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
It does not belong in the lede. The lede should mention only those things that he himself made into the major themes of his campaign (e.g. immigration and trade). Climate change is already in the body of the text, and it gets suitable attention at Political positions of Donald Trump. --MelanieN (talk) 16:35, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
"The lede should mention only those things that he himself made into the major themes" – that the subject of an article gets to decide which issues that are covered in the lead is certainly not a recognised principle on Wikipedia or what WP:LEAD says. Trump has himself made strongly contrarian statements on climate change and the environment and has said he wants to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency. Clearly environmental policy is a very important topic and he holds strong views on it and has proposed radical policies in the field. --Tataral (talk) 19:47, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
Please have this discussion at Talk:Political positions of Donald Trump. — JFG talk 23:06, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
"Clearly environmental policy is a very important topic" This statement is factually incorrect. You may think environmental policy is important but that is your opinion only. I don't think environmental policy is important. Further, the assertion that environmental policy is "clearly [...] very important" is necessarily false... because it clearly is NOT important to me. So speak for yourself. 107.0.155.16 (talk) 16:49, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 11 November 2016

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT REQUEST WHERE WIKIPEDIA SHOULD JUST STICK TO THE FACTS RATHER THAN SPECULATION REGARDING THE OUTCOME OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PROCESS.

Please REMOVE "He was elected as the 45th U.S. president in the 2016 election, defeating Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and will take office on January 20, 2017. At 70 years old, Trump will be the oldest person to assume the presidency." As Mr. Trump has not been elected yet by the Electoral College which should confirm their choice on December 19 2016 according to the Constitution, under circumstances prevailing at the time and under the fact that Mr. Trump did not garner the majority of the popular votes...hence he is not the American people president of choice. I will circulate this request on Social media. WIKIPEDIA CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT if it wants to be considered as a trusted source.

REPLACE WITH: " He ran for the position of 45th U.S. president in the 2016 election, coming second by popular votes count behind Hillary Clinton, however deemed president-elect on the assumption that, as customary but not by any provision of the Constitution, all Electors comprising the Electoral College in a State will vote for the candidate who received the majority of the popular vote in that state."

YPLeroux (talk) 15:10, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

 Not done See the definition of President-elect of the United States. — JFG talk 16:29, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Fly-by comment-Yeah,the correction to document these trivial finer aspects seem to be the lone hope to delay the inevitable as long as possible!But given the post-poll environment, the sentence proposed by YPLeroux (talk · contribs) is a classic!Sorry, that it does not conform to the article of President-elect of the United States. Aru@baska❯❯❯ Vanguard 19:39, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 11 November 2016

Bashir280 (talk) 20:08, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

 Not done You have not stated what changes you would propose to the article. General Ization Talk 20:14, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

President (elect) should come before businessman

It is with all the other Presidents. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:3020:2B00:200:70FE:3C0B:85DF:889D (talk) 20:35, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Wrong golf course

In the third paragraph of Section 2.1.6, the positioning of the sentence "In June 2015, Trump made an appeal objecting to an offshore windfarm (Aberdeen Bay Wind Farm) being built within sight of the golf course,[92] which was dismissed by five justices at the UK Supreme Court in December 2015.[93]" implies that the wind farm was built in sight of the Turnberry course, not the Aberdeen course on the other side of the country. Should the sentence be moved to the previous paragraph for clarity? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.147.187.230 (talk) 13:22, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for the heads up! — JFG talk 23:31, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 11 November 2016

Typo Correction - Please change ("skills as a negotiato."[46]) under 2.1.2 Trump Tower to ("skills as a negotiator."[46]) TCDTA (talk) 23:31, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

 Done. - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 23:46, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Rfc about Donald Trump's new photo proposal

Delisted RfC pending resolution of image licensing issues. Actually you could start over with a new RfC, cleaner that way. ―Mandruss ☎ 04:11, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Should the infobox of Donald Trump after permission from the photographer contain this photo?

Click here to see the photo

I found the license. I will post it. It is from Getty. -- Dyl1G http://www.gettyimages.com/license/622479256

This photo is under the "Rights-managed" license. 

As it states "Limited to the specific use, medium, period of time, print run, placement, size of content, and territory selected, and any other restrictions that accompany the content on the Getty Images website (or any other method of content delivery) or in an order confirmation or invoice. Non-Exclusive, meaning that you do not have exclusive rights to use the content. Getty Images can license the same content to other customers. Exclusive licenses may be available for rights-managed content upon payment of an additional license fee. Please contact Getty Images if you are interested in licensing content on an exclusive basis."

(I am chatting with Getty Images for a license) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dyl1G (talk • contribs) 23:13, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

If this license is up to code, I will live chat with getty of getting a license deal for this photo. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dyl1G (talk • contribs) 23:07, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

UPDATE

Unfortunately, Getty will not give me a license to use the picture because the Terms of Use on Wikipedia are CC's. The person said we could contact Matt, the photographer directly and see if he will give me the license. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dyl1G (talk • contribs) 23:43, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

"Donald Trump" or "Donald J. Trump"?

How should he be referred as as President? Because I've seen both forms used and I'm not sure there is yet a consensus on that. Or is it too early to bring this up? Cheers, κατάσταση 18:45, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Or is it too early to bring this up? Let's wait until his son is elected before we add the J:). Objective3000 (talk) 18:47, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
You think his son could beat Chelsea? I suggest we start an article on the presidency of Donald Trump if there is not one already. Maybe the articles on the Trump organization and The Apprentice are adequate for his business activities. TFD (talk) 20:07, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Once he becomes president next year, there's every chance the article will need to be moved to Donald J. Trump; his official social media profiles (Twitter, Facebook) use his middle initial. I think it is too soon to do so now as it's not in the common vernacular as is with John F. Kennedy or even James K. Polk. So many people have known him for decades as just Donald Trump, but it is still worth pointing out … only time will tell! CityFeedback talk 10:02, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Once he becomes president, he will establish how he wishes to be known. If the White House webpage refers to him as Donald J. Trump; if his employees and surrogates refer to him as "President Donald J. Trump"; if his official portrait (and we should put that in here if we can get it) is titled Donald J. Trump; then it will be clear that is his presidential name and we should move the article. If these sources mainly refer to him as "Donald Trump" then we will keep it here. Nothing should be done until he assumes office. A president gets to establish how he/she is referred to by contemporaries and posterity - whether as Richard M. Nixon or Ronald Reagan, Dwight D. Eisenhower or Jimmy Carter. (And I'm puzzled - you said his Facebook and Twitter profiles use his middle initial, but those entities are titled without it..) MelanieN alt (talk) 08:18, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Trump and Wrestling

@MelanieN: Nothing about Trump's involvement in professional wrestling in the lead section of the article. Details about other ventures like pageantry and reality TV were added. Is there any reason why the wrestling part was not included? Stanleytux (talk) 12:12, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Why are his "political stances" still in the main article?

Why is Donald Trump the first President (or soon to be) to have a section devoted to his "political stances". If people want to check out his political positions, the main article is linked in the Trump series template. I know a lot of folks here are very very hessitant in deleting a currently major section, but can't we face the facts and admit that it shouldn't be there anymore? User1937 (talk) 14:14, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

WP:CRYSTALBALL statement in article lead

The first paragraph of the lead section contains the sentence:

He was elected as the 45th U.S. president in the 2016 election on the Republican ticket, defeating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, and will take office on January 20, 2017. (emphasis added)

Please change this to:

He was elected as the 45th U.S. president in the 2016 election on the Republican ticket, defeating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, and is scheduled to take office on January 20, 2017.

While it is extremely likely that Trump will take office on schedule, it is not yet a mathematical certainty that nothing will happen to prevent this from occurring. --Jester 10:40, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Done. PeterTheFourth (talk) 15:17, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Donald Trump is the president-elect ?

I have a question for you as I Wikipedian Polish Wikipedia ... Why according to you Donald Trump is now president-elect? I ask, because many times I go to the enwiki and look with astonishment that give information in advance. I hope that nothing will change at the Trump ... but how do you ensure that Trump will be the president ..... and only on December 19 will be known. At my pliwiki to immediately cancel that person adds that "Donald Trump is the president-elect" TharonXX (talk) 14:51, 12 November 2016 (UTC).

Previously discussed multiple times on this page. You can find some of it still on the page, the rest in recent archive pages. The short answer: Most reliable sources say he is the president-elect, so we say he is the president-elect. It is not according to us. ―Mandruss ☎ 15:05, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, but Donald J. Trump is the president designate and not the president-elect. Though dismissed as a technicality, legally he has not been elected president by the electoral college. That will take place on December 19, 2016. Once that happens he will be the president-elect.Setoche (talk) 15:55, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Agree with Mandruss. Reliable sources call him President-elect. Obama and Hillary call him President-elect. The news media calls him that. Those are all reliable sources. SW3 5DL (talk) 19:14, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Claim that Donald Trump saved the world from nuclear war

I suggest we add a note on this article that the Presidential adviser to Vladimir Putin, Sergei Glazyev, said that Donald Trump has saved the world from nuclear war following his election. This already has precedent in other articles whose profiles were praised as saving the world. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3922890/The-Kremlin-says-victory-Clinton-sparked-World-War-Three-electing-Trump-saved-world-Armageddon.html#comments — Preceding unsigned comment added by PantherBF3 (talk • contribs) 11:53, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Hagiologically ridiculous. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 11:56, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

stop trolling User:JackofOz — Preceding unsigned comment added by PantherBF3 (talk • contribs) 12:17, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Might be worth adding to Sergey Glazyev, although the Daily Mail is not always regarded as WP:RS. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:03, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
While it's pretty clear from my user page that I hate both Trump and the Mail, pretty much every any news source you can read on Trump right now is going to be POV one way or another, and new information should ideally from a cross-section of pieces whose bias cancels each other out. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:23, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Two days after the election and Trump has yet to take office. The claim, if it was made, is silly and the person making the claim holds no office. Further, his opinion is likely tainted by the fact that the current president froze his U.S assets and he is banned from entering the U.S. Objective3000 (talk) 12:31, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
new information should ideally from a cross-section of pieces whose bias cancels each other out Did I just hear that from an admin? WP:FALSEBALANCE. ―Mandruss ☎ 12:36, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
That link you supplied mentions things like the moon landings being a hoax and that the earth is flat; the only news source I know who mentions that is the Sunday Sport. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:39, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Nevertheless, I know of nothing in WP:NPOV or any other policy that supports your statement highlighted above. My guide is WP:DUE, whether or not that results in "a cross-section of pieces whose bias cancels each other out". ―Mandruss ☎ 12:43, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Saved the world from Nuclear war? How? By destroying the USA without need for any war is the only way he could do it. Trump is the one talking about starting wars all the time! Most people think silly trump is going to start a nuke war even if he doesnt intend too, with his ignorant ancient trade ideas.--Simon19800 (talk) 00:28, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

How do people believe this when he just defeated one of the biggest warmongerers in American history?108.54.106.8 (talk) 00:46, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Immediate back flip on main stance straight after election

With the change from Ill get rid all off illegals to ALL THE ILLEGALS CAN NOW STAY. Was it all just a trick to get the ignorant white trash vote? The ones who voted for their pay to be cut..... After all who is going to work for trumps 4$ an hour? Only the illegals.--Simon19800 (talk) 00:24, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Um... talk pages aren't general forums... We just cite stuff. Є𐌔ⲘО𐌔𐍄 𐍄𐌀ℓК 00:52, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 12 November 2016


Howardform (talk) 23:25, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Donald Trump was born in Queens, NY not New York, NY (He was actually born in Jamaica, NY)

The address is 85-15 wareham Rd Jamaica, NY you can search for this anywhere

Hi Howardform, the article infobox lists New York City, New York as his birthplace, which is actually correct. ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 02:48, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Good news!

Hey, Trump's the president-elect now. I bet you didn't know that. Anyways, while some people are very polarised about what happened, there's some good news (for everyone)! This article can now be nominated for GA-status, now that it's stable, for the most part. So be bold and nominate it! :(:) Є𐌔ⲘО𐌔𐍄 𐍄𐌀ℓК 22:37, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

I'm iffy on the "it's stable" bit. Plenty of new information is coming out. Dustin (talk) 22:53, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, this has been an incredibly unstable article, with edit wars and constant, huge neutrality battles for months. I'm sure the battles will resume after the shock subsides. Plus this article will need major work in the coming months as the focus switches from being mainly a business person to being mainly a politician. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 23:18, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
If it was "stable" it would't need extended-confirmed protection. The explosion of argument on this talk page immediately after his election shows what would have happened to the article without the extra protection. Maybe when it reaches the point where it can be reduced to semi-protection it could be evaluated for stability. It is certainly not there now. MelanieN alt (talk) 08:24, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
@Esmost: All true. And first you need to work on trying to get it to B-quality. (The quality ratings all got erroneously changed over Election Day; I've restored.) --Dervorguilla (talk) 04:20, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Fascism?

Closing; no chance of including anything like this being used in the article; BLP and PA problems in the discussion — Preceding unsigned comment added by MelanieN (talk • contribs) 07:05, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

With a very large number of sources calling Donald Trump a fascist or at least his positions fascist, why is this not in the article? It seems massively biased not to even mention this. Distrait cognizance (talk) 18:00, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

I agree that we could in principle mention how his political positions and views are assessed in a discussion of this topic, provided it is done in a nuanced way and based on good sources. There does seem to be quite a few credible sources assessing his political position in such a way. It would require some work to write a balanced/nuanced discussion of this. --Tataral (talk) 19:27, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Only if there are neutral, unbiased sources. The "fascism" label is very subjective, inflammatory, and pejorative today, so many sources that connect Trump with that political ideology might be doing so because they oppose Trump, or if this is not the case, it might be seen by many people that this article is anti-Trump if we mention this. We have to be careful in this area. --1990'sguy (talk) 23:54, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Why isn't an encyclopedia accusing the next US president of being a fascist? You sound like a complete lunatic right now. 108.54.106.8 (talk) 00:50, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
No reliable sources have called him a fascist. We had the same issue with Obama, where his opponents called him a socialist. TFD (talk) 04:43, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Major demonstrations against Trump

Now "major demonstrations against Trump" is on every frontpage where I live (not the US); the global coverage of the demonstrations is extensive, and it is clear that it will have to be mentioned in the article, and in my opinion also be mentioned briefly (one sentence) in the lead. Also, Trump has directly responded/engaged with the demonstrators on Twitter in his usual way (spewing invectives). --Tataral (talk) 11:07, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

"Trump has directly responded/engaged with the demonstrators on Twitter in his usual way (spewing invectives)".. more insane people.. why are people like this even allowed to edit on such controversial article with such obvious and clear bias?? just give up, Donald Trump won and will be president of the united states, he will ally with putin and avoid ww3 so be thankful that nuclear apocalypse does not happen due to silly attempt to overthrow assad for who knows whos gain KMilos (talk) 15:45, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

No, Tataral, Trump has NOT directly responded/engaged with the demonstrators on Twitter by "spewing invectives". This is what Donald Trump said on Twitter today, 11 Nov 2016 about the demonstrators (or rioters, according to the NY Post/AP article you listed): "Love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. We will all come together and be proud!" That is not invective, but rather, is remarkably tolerant about rioters who are causing severe damage to property and also physically harming innocent bystanders.
I would recommend waiting to add content about the protests of a fair election, as they are recent, and Wikipedia is not a source of current news.--FeralOink (talk) 05:36, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Seems like it should go to United States presidential election, 2016 or something rather than this BLP, since it's not something in Trumps life or in response to an action he did. I it gets organized or larger it might be worth is own article, but a 'couple days' of it and awfully vague on content or mixed with riot and looting ... doesn't seem big enough for that. Markbassett (talk) 07:53, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

What is the page curation utility doing on this page?

If you haven't noticed, the page curation tool is up on this page. This article is not newly created or unreviewed, odd as to why it is on here? Or is this just me? - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 22:00, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

@Champion: Educate me. What is it, where is it, and why do we care whether it's on this page? ―Mandruss ☎ 22:35, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
@Mandruss:See WP:Page Curation It was on the right side of the page when I posted the original comment and remains there, and it is only meant to appear on newly created or unreviewed articles, but it is not the case here. - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 22:57, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
FYI I have inquired about it at WP:HD and it turns out it was vandalized after being moved into draft space and is caused by a bug in the tool. - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 06:17, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
It's not a bug at all. See the page's logs; a series of compromised admin accounts (including Jimbo's!) vandalised the Main Page, and several of them vandalised this by moving it to Draft:Donald Trump or the like (one did the same to Hillary Rodham Clinton's, too), so several times it had to be moved back to this title. Page Curation is set up to appear on any page that's recently been moved from draftspace to mainspace, as this one was. Programming it to ignore pages that have spent a long time in mainspace would maybe be a good deal of work, and since sometimes existing articles are moved to userspace or draftspace because they're really bad quality (as an alternative to deletion), we can't guarantee that even a longtime-in-mainspace draft should necessarily be exempt from Page Curation. The big issue is that pagemove vandalism of articles like this to draftspace is exceptionally rare, and since Page Curation doesn't hurt anything, we don't need to worry about accounting for it. Nyttend (talk) 13:03, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Capitalization of president-elect

Re [4] [5]

I get that there is disagreement in this area in the world, and I get that many people see their viewpoints on certain style issues as the only correct ones regardless of community consensus, but I do not see support at MOS:JOBTITLES for Michipedian's reasoning as to the word "the" and common vs. proper nouns. I understand the reasoning, and I don't necessarily disagree with it, but that's beside the point. I note that "president-elect" occurs 15 times uncapitalized at President-elect of the United States. Since JOBTITLES represents the community consensus on this, we needn't look any further. Anyone is free to seek a new community consensus, but the way to do that is not by revert and edit summary in mainspace.

When commenting, please bear in mind that it's not about what seems more correct to you, but what is supported by Wikipedia's guideline on the matter. ―Mandruss ☎ 06:52, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

I think my reasoning is supported by the third bullet point in the link you provided.
"When the correct formal title is treated as a proper name (e.g., King of France; it is correct to write Louis XVI was King of France but Louis XVI was the French king)"
According to this, I believe the following are all correct:
- "Donald Trump is President-elect of the United States."
- "Barack Obama is President of the United States."
- "Donald Trump is the president-elect of the United States."
- "Barack Obama is the president of the United States."
Michipedian (talk) 18:59, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
It's difficult to reconcile that with the non-capitalization in "as well as chairman and president of The Trump Organization". "Chairman of The Trump Organization" and "President of The Trump Organization" are both titles that are no less "proper names" than "President-elect of the United States", and there is no "the" preceding them. The fact that there are no Wikipedia articles for those titles seems irrelevant for this purpose; they are still titles.
Nevertheless, your position is not completely baseless per guideline as I thought, so I'll concede assuming no one else jumps in with a stronger counter. ―Mandruss ☎ 19:21, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
I agree with Michipedian on this fine point of orthography. — JFG talk 20:47, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
If "Chairman" and "President" are official titles in the governmental structure of The Trump Organization, then they should be capitalized as well. Michipedian (talk) 06:19, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Re [6] [7] @Spartan7W: Your editsum suggests that you did not see mine or read this thread. Are you disputing the conclusion reached and agreed upon here? If so, on what basis? ―Mandruss ☎ 20:12, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

There is absolutely no logic in leaving "President-elect" lowercase when it is used as a proper noun. If one uses 'President-elect' as a title before 'Trump' or as a standalone, it is capitalized. If it is used to describe the office, it is capitalized. Only if it is not used as a proper noun is it lowercase. Same goes for "Chairman" or any other title. There is no consensus or agreement reached here on this topic, and even if there were somehow consensus, the glaring inaccuracy of a lowercase 'President-elect' in proper noun situations justifies ignoring it   Spartan7W §   14:40, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
@Spartan7W: Please refer to the guideline cited above. "Louis XVI was the French king", from the guideline, is grammatically equivalent to "Donald John Trump ... is the president-elect of the United States." If not, what is the grammatical difference? Pinging Michipedian for comment. ―Mandruss ☎ 14:56, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Because "French king" and "California governor," or whatever you want, aren't titles. An announcer doesn't say "his highness, French king Louis XVI," he says, "His Highness, the King of France, Louis XVI, etc". Thus, President-elect of the United States is a position, an office, a title; it represents an incoming American president (<-see what I did there?). The term 'president-elect' is not a proper noun unless used officially, or as a title preceding his name, "President-elect Donald Trump." In the case of French king, "France" is the proper noun, but you are just describing an adverb of sorts, as 'king' in general terms refers to a general position and powers, as opposed to King of France, a specific and formal title. If you said Donald Trump, blah blah blah, is the 'American president-elect' or 'United States president-elect,' then I would have no issue with the case of the word. However, that is not a formal use of the office and title, and the proper way is "President-elect of the United States," and same goes for any office. Eric Garcetti is the Los Angeles mayor, as newspapers often put to save space, but formally and properly, Eric Garcetti is the Mayor of Los Angeles (you can also put the person in the middle and say "Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles". A word describing an office like senator, governor, president, mayor, chairman, secretary are just common nouns on their own, unless coupled with a formally structured title, like President of the United States.   Spartan7W §   15:07, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Now at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters#the P/president-elect of the United States. ―Mandruss ☎ 15:38, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Edit request

Please remove the word "American" from the opening sentence. This is proven by him being president elect, as mentioned earlier on in the sentence. It's also a case of overlink Valentina Cardoso (talk) 15:57, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Done. --Malerooster (talk) 16:07, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
Barack Obama also says "American" on the lead. Also, it is standard MOS:BLPLEAD to have their nationality on the lead, no matter what office they hold. Also, if it was proven that he was American by being a president-elect, we could've also omitted it when he was a presidential candidate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eric0928 (talk • contribs) 17:58, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

WP Neutral Point of View Policy (Social Issues, Abortion)

WP has a clear Wikipedia:Neutral point of view policy. The abortion section must not be tinged with flagrantly biased language. Therefore, the prefix anti will not be used, as it carries with it severe negative connotations. Instead, in order to establish balance, the terms pro-life, and pro-choice will be used respectively. We will not be using the terms "anti-abortion, anti-life, anti-fetal rights, anti-choice", etc. as these are deliberately incendiary and biased terms. Please do not reintroduce biased language. Instead, discuss terms on the talk page. Ontario Teacher BFA BEd (talk) 18:36, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

New article: Donald Trump's business career

Edit request: Change the entire business career section to the text on this page.

Before the election, I came up with a proposal to split Donald Trump's business career into a new article, citing the fact that the article is really huge (and now it's even bigger at 91 kB of readable prose size, according to this script). WP:SIZESPLIT encourages that most articles be split above 60 kB of readable prose size, and should almost certainly be split above 100 kB. Other sections should most probably be split too, but this section is just about discussing the business career section.

I ended up deciding to wait because other editors pointed out that any changes made before the election might have to be undone afterwards depending on whether he was elected or not. Now, since the political areas of the article are only going to expand, I think it makes sense to split off the business ventures section of the article into a new one and include a summarized version in the main article instead. Below are my proposals, which are up to date as of November 10.

  • The proposed shortened text to put in the main article, which will eliminate about 11 kB of readable prose size.
  • The new article. This is basically just the modern "Business career" section on Wikipedia, with a new lead paragraph – feel free to improve it.

I believe these suggestions are cautious enough that they can be implemented right away if editors are in favor of doing so, and once another full article is created, the version on the main article can be safely trimmed down more, bit by bit. I know that removing some parts will generate a lot of controversy, so I did my best to trim only obvious paragraphs. JasperTECH (talk) 16:48, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

  • Support – I totally agree with splitting off his business career now. However I think it's even more urgent to mercilessly trim everything related to this nasty and long-winded presidential campaign, because most of it is a sheer duplicate of stuff mentioned at length in dedicated articles (and those could be trimmed of excess detail too). Happy to contribute to the copyediting if we don't get too much pushback. — JFG talk 18:18, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
  • Support some type of split to reduce the size of this particular article. I am not sure what the best way to split it would be, but this seems to be one way to do it. Tony Tan · talk 19:19, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
  • Support. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 19:28, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

All right – I've created the article. Unfortunately, I don't have extended-confirmed abilities yet, so if someone could implement the shortened change to the main article, that'd be fantastic. And honestly, I don't expect many valid reasons not to create this article. You know, WP:BOLD and everything. JasperTECH (talk) 00:54, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Done Tony Tan · talk 05:20, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Thanks Tony_Tan! Just one quick follow-up edit, since the Trump Force One image under net worth isn't displaying properly due to a modified dash.
Text to delete: File:Trump Force One at Valdosta Regional Airport a&nbsp;— cropped.jpg
Replace with: File:Trump Force One at Valdosta Regional Airport a - cropped.jpg
Thanks again. I'll be getting extended-protected abilities in a week and a half or something, so I won't be bothering anyone for too long. In the mean time, I'll work on some other articles.
JasperTECH (talk) 13:43, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
 Fixed [8] ―Mandruss ☎ 14:10, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

@JasperTech: FYI: I embarked on a general trimming expedition today, cutting redundancies, excruciating detail and overcites; readable prose size is down from 89k to 77k. More to do, but that's progress. — JFG talk 19:05, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Polling failure - suggest add these sources for section on Polling failure

Polling failure

Further information: Nationwide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2016

The election ended in a victory for Donald Trump despite being behind in nearly all opinion polls.[1][2] After the general election polling misfiring, media analysts differed as to why the opinion prediction industry was unable to correctly forecast the result.[1][2] BBC News questioned whether polling should be abandoned due to its abject failure.[1] Forbes magazine contributor astrophysicist Ethan Siegel performed a scientific analysis and raised whether the statistical population sampled for the polling was inaccurate, and cited the cautionary adage Garbage in, garbage out.[2] He concluded there may have been sampling bias on the part of the pollsters.[2] Siegel compared the 2016 election to the failure of prognosticator Arthur Henning in the Dewey Defeats Truman incident from the 1948 presidential election.[2]

Suggest to add above as new section for the article.

Or some, all, or any of the above.

Thank you !

References

  1. ^ a b c Peter Barnes, Senior elections and political analyst, BBC News (11 November 2016), "Reality Check: Should we give up on election polling?", BBC News, retrieved 12 November 2016{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b c d e Ethan Siegel (9 November 2016), "The Science Of Error: How Polling Botched The 2016 Election", Forbes magazine, retrieved 12 November 2016

69.50.70.9 (talk) 06:08, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

The polling is about the campaign, and should be on the campaign articles. But, it's not biographic and it shouldn't be added to this page. – Muboshgu (talk) 06:11, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
2nd paragraph at Donald_Trump#General_election already does discuss it. So clearly it does belong on this article page. Perhaps just a small addition to mention the media comparison to Dewey Defeats Truman from 1948. 69.50.70.9 (talk) 06:21, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
No thanks. Now that the frenzy is past, I hope to see non-BLP parts move to better spots and shrink this article to saner size -- and as Muboshgu said, this isn't something in Trumps life or response to something he did, it's about polling. Maybe in some election article or polling article, but not here. Markbassett (talk) 08:03, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Agree with both Muboshgu and Markbasset. Not here.Volunteer Marek (talk) 08:35, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Not done: There does not seem to be consensus — Andy W. (talk) 20:01, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Muslim ban in lead is incorrect

It states it's now a ban on countries with a proven history of terrorism, and links an old Trump webpage. It has been updated in October to "extreme vetting'; The muslim ban is off the table, it's now extreme vetting. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/300132-trump-muslim-ban-morphed-into-extreme-vetting

Can someone change this, because it isn't correct. Sandiego91 (talk) 23:13, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 12 November 2016

In the introduction, it suggests that many of Trump's statements have been "controversial or false". While I believe that "controversial" is easily a fair assessment, labeling them as "false" comes down as a judgment call that crosses into POV territory. It would be more encyclopedic to say that they have been "controversial or even alleged falsehoods" or "accused of being false". Lord Sephiran, Duke of Persis (talk) 20:38, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Done. This appears heavily biased, especially as all candidates speak many false statements, being aware or not. I am removing it. ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 02:49, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Ugh there appears to have been a weak consensus against this; another RfC should be made now that this is receiving more attention, i.e. now that he is President-elect. ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 03:15, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
For future editors, this is the relevant RfC. Ɱ, I disagree with the idea of doing another RfC now. Since his campaign is over, nothing has changed that will make the outcome of another RfC any different (the previous RfC was finished in September 2016). Since it is well-sourced and undisputed that many of his statements have been false, there is nothing wrong with stating it as a fact – no reliable sources (that I know of) are denying that "many of his statements have been controversial or false." The NPOV policy page says to avoid stating opinions as facts, but it also warns to avoid stating facts as opinions. Changing it to "accused of being false" would be a blatant violation of that policy. Even if one reliable source could be found that claimed all of Trump's statements were true, including it would be giving undue weight to a fringe view.
Most importantly, the word "false" is used many times throughout the article in reference to numerous statements Trump has made throughout his campaign, and all those occurrences would need to be changed before the lead could be changed. (Imagine if the article said: "Trump publicly acknowledged that Obama was born in the U.S., and falsely claimed that rumors to the contrary had been started by Hillary Clinton during her 2008 presidential campaign. His statements were accused of being false.") JasperTECH (talk) 04:13, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
No, that's not how it works. The lede is for the most notable information. It's notable that Trump makes controversial statements, which most politicians don't, but it's not notable that Trump has lied or spoken falsely, which most politicians do. ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 17:13, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
So it doesn't matter that there are many people out there that believe his reputedly false statements? Isn't it sort of one-sided to say that there aren't enough reputable sources that say his statement aren't false? Are there even sources that take the time to mention that something is particularly not false? It seems like this is set up to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.Lord Sephiran, Duke of Persis (talk) 23:53, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Page too big?

Trouble loading page with internet connection slow sometimes.

Page too big?

Can be trimmed down some by editors?

Much thanks ! 69.50.70.9 (talk) 02:00, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Mr. Trump has done a lot of notable things in his life. He is going to have a large article.  {MordeKyle}  ☢ 02:20, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Donald Trump page quite large and hard to load on Internet at 328 kilobytes, whereas Barack Obama page only 298 kilobytes. 69.50.70.9 (talk) 02:37, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
You'd be better served to compare the article to someone who has done a similar amount of notable things in their life.  {MordeKyle}  ☢ 03:02, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
I do think some of the things in this article would be a good split. Maybe a separation from the business man to the politician or something. I don't know what would be the best way to handle that.  {MordeKyle}  ☢ 03:04, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Okay that sounds like a good start. Especially to make room for lots of massive additions that are bound to happen soon over time. 69.50.70.9 (talk) 04:14, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
There is also content that is out of date, see the last paragraph in the Net worth section, which references hypothetical claims that the Trump brand has lost value due to his presidential campaign. There are way too many references too, over 600. I think that we will need to split the article into two separate ones, as there will be a lot of new content over the next four years. Trump as business man and Trump the politician seems reasonable to me, although we will need to get other editors' input on the best way to do this.--FeralOink (talk) 05:26, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

@FeralOink: I have started to address this concern yesterday in a general trimming expedition, cutting redundancies, excruciating detail and overcites; readable prose size is down from 89k to 77k. More to do, but that's progress. In particular I trimmed the Net worth section and added recent sourcing about the brand value's rebound post-election. — JFG talk 05:33, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

There is a newly created page Business career of Donald Trump, which was mentioned earlier on this talk page. I believe that much of the content on that page is still duplicated here. I would like to trim more of it out of this page (further reducing the size), but don't want to do too many edits to the page in one day. I will revisit this tomorrow, and give time for additional editor comments.--FeralOink (talk) 05:57, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

First Sentence

Can we stick with one introductory sentence? It keeps changing. It should read, "Donald Trump is an American businessman and politician who is the President-elect of the United States." This is the standard format for every president: So and So is a politician who served as the president, etc. 184.153.89.10 (talk) 06:15, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Saying he's a politician who is President-elect is redundant.--Jack Upland (talk) 06:36, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
I feel like we should have an RfC on this matter. - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 06:38, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Can we stick with one introductory sentence? It keeps changing. Nothing wrong with change in itself, that's how things are improved. We don't always get it right the first time, or the second, or the third, or the fourth. Also there is no such thing as a "standard format for every president". I feel like we should have an RfC on this matter. Why not, we're having an RfC on almost everything else. ;) ―Mandruss ☎ 06:46, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
It sounds odd because he has never (even now) held elective office. But that is because we think of him as a non-politician who ran for office and had he lost we would not call him a politician. Note Dwight D. Eisenhower says, "was an American politician and general who served as the 34th President of the United States," while Wendell Willkie says he "was an American lawyer and corporate executive, and the 1940 Republican nominee for President." Maybe phrase like willkie for now and transition to Ike's phrasing on Jan. 20. TFD (talk) 06:50, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
We previously had a RfC that concluded he was a politician. We don't need to go through that again. I think it's redundant to say someone is a politician who was President-elect (or President). But other articles say that. Do we need to follow them into the swamp of tautology???--Jack Upland (talk) 07:33, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
I think I missed that RfC. Did we conclude that he is a politician, or that we should say he is a politician? If the latter, we should say that or run another RfC. If the former, I don't see the point of such a consensus. ―Mandruss ☎ 07:43, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
It was a while ago: [9].--Jack Upland (talk) 22:33, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. Appears to be "the latter". ―Mandruss ☎ 06:39, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Expansion

Looking for expansion on this article. Never Hillary BlackAmerican (talk) 17:04, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

White nationalists

I added the following a few days ago:

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center:

Throughout the campaign white nationalist support for Trump was steadfast and came from all corners of the movement. For his part, Trump not only ran an openly nativist campaign but he, or the people around him, gave interviews to white nationalist radio shows, retweeted open racists, and refused to quickly denounce the endorsements of hate group leaders.

It has been removed and replaced with: "Trump was accused of pandering to white nationalists." This might be a fair summary of any one of the points mentioned in the deleted material, but clearly not all of them, each of which is unique and noteworthy for any presidential campaign or candidate. So the full summary should be restored. zzz (talk) 06:58, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

What you added was not acceptable. It was reverted according to policy. Doc talk 07:35, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Source quoted: SPLC "White Nationalists and the Alt-Right Celebrate Trump’s Victory"
More detailed: Politico Magazine "How White Nationalists Learned To Love Donald Trump"
Countless other RS available, of course. zzz (talk) 07:53, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
It fails the neutral aspect. "All corners of the movement". Sure. Doc talk 07:55, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
"All corners of the movement" is fair and accurate, according to RS. The advantage of a quote from a RS is that it avoids such quibbling arguments about wording. If you want to hammer out an equivalent passage in your own words covering this material, that is fine, but in the meantime the quote should remain. zzz (talk) 08:16, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
I'm not going to debate NPOV with you. You're either going to get it or you are not. Doc talk 08:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Apparently, you don't seem to get that it is not NPOV to delete stuff just because it doesn't support your POV. zzz (talk) 08:33, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, ok. As I said, I don't have to explain policy to you. If you add something that is against policy that gets removed, and you don't like it: tough. Doc talk 08:37, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Is that you "debating NPOV", then? I think you'll find that neutrally reporting what RS discuss is NPOV. And furthermore, deleting it is "against policy". zzz (talk) 08:40, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
You're clearly not editing this article in good faith. Your block log indicates that you are not going to understand NPOV. You really should find another article to edit. Doc talk 08:53, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Since personal attacks are all you have to offer, you should probably stop commenting at this point. zzz (talk) 08:57, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Duly noted. Wouldn't want to dig myself into a deeper hole. Doc talk 09:02, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
I think it's plain that someone who reverts the totally uncontroversial wikilinking of "white nationalists" should not be discussing the topic. zzz (talk) 09:08, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
If NAMBLA endorsed Trump, it would not reflect on him logically. After all, he has absolutely no control over whichever whacko groups pledge their support for him. Duh. You have an agenda, and it is clear. It's not coming from a NPOV. Doc talk 09:12, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
@Signedzzz: I'm the one who cut the quote, as part of a general drive to reduce the size of the article, which many editors have pointed out is overly bloated for a main biography. I did summarize your point in as few words as possible. Readers who want detail can read your source. You could also bring more detail to articles focused on the campaign instead of Trump's main bio (although those are immensely bloated as well). — JFG talk 09:21, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
I know, and as I said it would be a fair summary of any one of the various aspects - therefore, inadequately and misleadingly short and vague to cover the entirety. In my opinion, that was one thing that did not need further summarizing. My impression is that it is widely seen as a unique and noteworthy part of Trump's campaign (and of course there is much more detail which should be added to the campaign article). As such a few sentences to summarize it here is not unreasonable. zzz (talk) 09:33, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
I bet every last sentence in this article feels super important to someone. Cutting the bloat is however important to everyone. — JFG talk 14:56, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
In this case, "cutting the bloat" means requiring the reader to click on the link to find out what the hell is being referred to - which a couple of sentences more would explain perfectly well. I think it is obvious that more than half a paragraph would not be undue, in any case (you currently have a dedicated section heading and 3 paragraphs for the "Sexual misconduct allegations", for example). It looks like an RFC will be necessary. zzz (talk) 15:52, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
I have my doubts that the SPLC is a reliable source based on their use of user-generated content. Doc talk 09:38, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
SPLC is just as reliable as Der Stürmer and should be taken as seriously.Hilltrot (talk) 15:27, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
This has been discussed several times. SPLC is a reliable source, although it should be attributed.Volunteer Marek (talk) 16:10, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
On the substance, I think JFG's current summary is fine, and the extended text is probably better for the Donald Trump campaign article.Volunteer Marek (talk) 16:21, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Really? "Accused of pandering" but we must not mention why, because no space (or something)? Not important or noteworthy enough, maybe? Please explain. zzz (talk) 16:30, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
@Volunteer Marek: Until yesterday, this article was 10kb longer. Obviously, the added length of 2 extra sentences isn't the issue here. zzz (talk) 18:05, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

"Many of his statements have been false"

First things first, I am not American, nor am I a conservative of any stripe.

However, the comparison between the leads of the two candidates couldn't be more different.

Trump has made false statements, but if we look at Politifact - a website that Republicans condemn when it highlights their errors - [http://www.politifact.com/personalities/hillary-clinton/ roughly half of its entries on Hillary Clinton are "Half-true" or less. This includes several "pants on fire" during the campaign, including one relating to her FBI investigation, a completely false accusation about Trump's view on the auto industry during the recession, and calling herself the only candidate who never pledged to raise taxes on the middle class.

This is, of course, a lower percentange of untruthful statements than what Politifact has listed for Trump. But where does "many" begin when you say a politician has made "many" statements that are false? If both candidates are listed by a Pulitzer-prize winning website with a majority of untruthful statements, it should be in both candidates' leads. If not, have it in neither and develop the details later on. Valentina Cardoso (talk) 14:15, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

See older discussions on this. In short: numerous reliable sources (incl. those that do a lot of fact-checking) have remarked on the extraordinary amount of falsehoods that Trump has said during the campaign, both in absolute terms and relative to other politicians. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 14:26, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
I do think we have a major POV problem when we compare both ledes, partly based on RS though.Zigzig20s (talk) 14:29, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Here is the actual link to the RfC about whether to include "or false." Essentially, I think, though Hillary Clinton has said many completely false things, the coverage of them in reliable sources isn't as great, so they don't have as much weight. That may not be fair, but it's just how Wikipedia is, and it has it's strengths and weaknesses. WP:BALASP says, "An article should not give undue weight to any aspects of the subject but should strive to treat each aspect with a weight appropriate to the weight of that aspect in the body of reliable sources on the subject." JasperTECH (talk) 15:05, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Uneven press coverage is not what this is about. It's generally accepted that "all politicians lie" - that is, they say some things that are not true. That's a given. Hillary Clinton is in that group. Out of her statements that get challenged (and remember, those are the only statements that the fact-checkers rate), some are exaggerations, some are misrepresentations, and a few are out-and-out false ("pants on fire"). If that were the pattern with Trump it would not be worth mentioning, because that is the pattern with most politicians. The difference is that when they rate Trump's statements that have been challenged, the pattern is different. An extraordinary number of Trump's statements turn out to be out-and-out false. He does not fit the normal pattern of a politician who shades the truth. He is a person who often says things that are simply, provably, 100% false. That unusual pattern has been commented on by numerous reliable sources, and that is the basis for our sentence in the lede. I agree it is an unusual thing to say about a president-elect. Right now the lede, and the article, are focused on his history up to and including the campaign. By the time he is president I assume we will be shifting away from campaign-focused information, and that sentence may go. That may also depend on whether he changes his approach to the facts now that he is no longer in campaign mode. --MelanieN (talk) 16:20, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
@MelanieN: Granted, Trump said a lot of crap. However he also said a lot of truths. Fact is, he talks a lot more than most politicians, and doesn't mince his words… The apparent bias may stem from Trump's big mouth and his self-styled "truthful hyperbole". Add to that the propensity of journalists to select the most juicy bits for endless replay and amplification, add to that the failure to grant him a talent for irony ("Russia, if you're listening, I hope you find Hillary's 33'000 emails that she deleted" — oh my God he's a double agent for Russia, quick let's hang him for high treason!), and here's a recipe for systemic bias. I for one have been genuinely puzzled as to why Trump was ever considered racist, while I never saw him behave in a racist way during 15 months of campaigning. Oh sure, he said Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers (reality check: "Mexican" is not a race, neither is "Muslim"), everybody noticed the words but failed to rate this outburst as simply making an exaggerated point for effect. When he visited Mexico, he behaved like a total gentleman with the President and the feeling was mutual. A real racist or Mexican-hater would have taken this opportunity to threaten the country or further demean its citizens. — JFG talk 18:13, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Nice little essay defending Trump, but not very convincing. ("Sure he lies a lot, but that's OK because.....") The point here is that he "says a lot of crap", i.e. says things that aren't true, to a much greater extent than other politicians do, a fact that Reliable Sources have taken note of. He broke the mold when it comes to political departures from the truth, and this was reported, not as editorializing, not as opinion, but as demonstrated fact. I'll ignore your equally unconvincing attempt to explain away racist-sounding statements as "making an exaggerated point for effect", since racism is not the subject of this thread. MelanieN alt (talk) 08:09, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
@MelanieN alt: Your point is granted, and I'm not advocating that we should remove the "exceptional number of falsehoods" evaluation from Trump's bio. That's a salient fact, so it is WP:DUE, and I kept it prominently during my article trimming exercise yesterday. We can acknowledge that he says a lot of crap while not concluding that everything he says is crap. (I believe you cited the slippery slope argument to me in another discussion some time ago…)
Claims of racism on the other hand are allegations based on interpretation of Trump's words as "dog whistles" or based on his being supported by dubious people, they are not backed up by Trump's actions in public life (the only serious claim I've seen was the 1973 housing discrimination affair, which was more targeted at his father and where Trump Jr actually ended up renting to blacks). On the campaign trail, I've seen him hiring people of all colors, getting vocal support from black pastors, kissing black babies and having the only other black candidate in the Republican field be the first to endorse Trump upon dropping out. Yes, off-topic, just my observations as an uninvolved non-American, weird how race perceptions still play a prominent role in that country… Oh, and for all the accusations of bigotry hurled at Donald Trump, how about him getting a prominent gay personality, Peter Thiel, to speak at the Republican convention and elicit a standing ovation from the crowd when saying "I'm proud to be gay and proud to be an American"? I don't think any other Rep candidate could have pulled this off. — JFG talk 05:54, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
wow as i read more of this page this bias becomes so clear. so many political editing by crazies who tried to influence election.. but why was this allowed?? i cannot believed i donated once to this biased website. yet still trump won despite such bias, this at least shows great power and intelligence of trump voters to see past such biased media and lies by an ENCYCLOPEDIA not a political liberal blog. i hope people are ashamed but unlikely because of such crazy insane biased people. this type of thing is what caused people to "disappear" in communist russia, bias overrides history accuracy or truth/attempt at maybe nonbias. insane truly insane people KMilos (talk) 18:21, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
WP:NPA. Also WP:NOTAFORUM.Volunteer Marek (talk) 19:35, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
I have a lot of reliable sources saying Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. Should I add them to the lede? 108.54.106.8 (talk) 00:48, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Valentina Cardoso - If you're seriously inclined to ask, please file it as an actual WP:RFC. Yes, it's an odd line and looks bad vs Clinton handling. And the RFC mentioned above asked only for this line OK or not got lots of objections mentioned above about POV, subjective, and biased, or so forth. In the end, the RFC Poster took the inputs and counted 30ish in favor and 20ish opposed and went this way. I don't think that a differently asked RFC would necessarily wind up in this wording, and this might be the first time WP put a papers rating system into BLP lead -- but again, if you are seriously inclined then please do it by a RFC. Cheers Markbassett (talk) 07:21, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Should add that many reliable sources have confirmed that Trump has said on numerous occasions, "SJW tears are very delicious!"

Adding a Presidential Template for Trump

Normally any article about a president would have a template at the bottom with articles about their presidency but this is the first time we have had one that amassed a large company and never was in public office or military (outside school). There is a template but it's of his family and his company. I created one specifically for his presidency in case there is a consensus to do so or merge it with the existing one. The image is just a placeholder until he gets an official portrait. What do other users think of the idea of a seperate one for his presidency like the other presidents?ShadowDragon343 (talk) 14:59, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

 Done FYI the "yuge" {{Trump}} template has been split into {{Trump businesses}}, {{Trump family}} and {{Trump presidency}} and each article mentioned has been reassigned the appropriate template. Next step is to retire {{Trump}} as obsolete (not sure if it should be deleted just yet but that may be its ultimate fate). I have also restructured the Trump businesses part to look cleaner and include up-to-date information in all subsections. I think it should be further split to separate the media appearances from the rest (for example it includes comedy skits, board games and cameo appearances in movies, which make no sense in a template about business affairs). I'll get to that a bit later today.
The presidency navbox still needs work; your draft above might be a good source of inspiration. See also {{Donald Trump series}} which is now stable.
Further comments welcome here or at the individual navbox talk pages. — JFG talk 11:59, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
The Presidency template is redundant as this one will be about it. No other president has a template specifically about their presidency (as in titled "Obama's Presidency" or "Bush's Presidency").ShadowDragon343 (talk) 21:25, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Proposed War Crimes

Why isn't there any mention of Trump's much-discussed proposal [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] that the United States military target and kill the families of terrorists, an action that would be considered by most to be a war crime? Seems like such a significantly controversial part of his campaign, that it probably ought to be mentioned in the article's lead, alongside his proposed ban on allowing Muslims to immigrate to the United States - but I can't find anything about this proposal anywhere in the article. --Jpcase (talk) 23:23, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

@Jpcase: I believe Mr. Trump has made more than one "much-discussed" "significantly controversial" proposal. --Dervorguilla (talk) 00:17, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
This definitely wouldn't be the article for it. Something like Political positions of Donald Trump or the one for his presidential campaign might be more appropriate.Volunteer Marek (talk) 00:53, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Agree. And even there subject to policy, and I don't know the details. ―Mandruss ☎ 07:52, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
@Dervorguilla: @Volunteer Marek: @Mandruss: I won't push this - but if Trump's proposed ban on Muslim immigration is notable enough to be mentioned in the lead here, then why wouldn't a proposal of his that the United States military commit a war crime be notable enough for mention anywhere in this article? Shouldn't there at least be a brief mention? --Jpcase (talk) 15:36, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
My guess is that that paragraph will be dramatically trimmed or eliminated now that the election is over. Many of us are still in post-election shock, so I'd give it a little time. ―Mandruss ☎ 15:43, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
@Jpcase: Point taken. I withdraw my opposition. This is an (obvious) C-class article; its overall quality would not be harmed. --Dervorguilla (talk) 02:55, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Request of editing this page

His successor for being a President-elect of the United States is not Barack Obama. Please remove that as soon as possible.--1233Talk 07:15, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

It will be changed to "Preceded by" Obama once he is inaugurated. As it is now, he is "Succeeding" Obama, meaning he is set to take his place. Doc talk 07:20, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

References to President-elect Trump in hip hop.

Aside from the lone Mac Miller song reference in the article, there are a tremendous number of references to President-elect Trump in hip hop music dating back to the 1980s.

This YouTube video features references by Ice-T, Ice Cube, A Tribe Called Quest, Redman, UGK, Master P, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Raekwon, House of Pain, Kid Rock, Rappin' 4-Tay, Westside Connection, Coolio, E-40, Pete Rock, Nas, Nelly, Cypress Hill, 50 Cent, Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, Blackstreet, Chingy, Lil' Wayne, The Notorious BIG, The High & Mighty, Young Jeezy, Sean Paul, Sean Combs, Yung Joc, Jedi Mind Tricks, Rick Ross, AZ, Juvenile, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Ja-Bar, D/R Period, Big Sean, Raz Fresco, Meek Mill, T.I., Lil' Kim, Juicy J, Young Thug, Lil Durk, Shaquille O'Neal, Gucci Mane, Riff Raff, Omen, Gangrene, Tory Lanez, Rae Sremmurd, Young Buck and Eminem.

Nearly three decades of relevance in popular music seems more than worthy of inclusion. As it is locked, I can't do it myself, but if anyone with editing privileges feels so inclined, it would be a great improvement to the article. Justanothereditor98027 (talk) 09:05, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Finally a suggestion which is not about Trump's portrait or some campaign controversy, how refreshing! Thanks for that Justanothereditor98027. If you could find some written source(s) besides the Youtube mashup, I'd be happy to draft a couple sentences for the Popular culture section. — JFG talk 09:35, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
Let's not forget the excellent Pimps (Freestylin' at the Fortune 500) by The Coup. PeterTheFourth (talk) 09:57, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
This is the main written source I could find. It doesn't mention nearly all of the songs linked in the YouTube video, but it should be sufficient for a start. Thanks JFG. Justanothereditor98027 (talk) 10:14, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 Done. Enjoy! — JFG talk 11:07, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

There was also a song about Donald Trump featured on the in-game radio in Saints Row IV.

Talk:Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016#Protests

Please see Talk:Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016#Protests regarding Reactions to Donald Trump's 2016 Presidential election victory.--CaroleHenson (talk) 17:14, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 15 November 2016

the date listed 2006 as the last time the republicans held both congress and the presidency is wrong the correct date appears in the footnote

100.40.173.160 (talk) 10:01, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

 Not done Please provide a complete and specific description of the change you want to make. Example: Change "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs" to "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy cats", along with why. Then you can reactivate this request. — xaosflux Talk 18:18, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
I tried to clarify this... --Bod (talk) 18:50, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

When is the article getting unlocked?

There isn't a lot being updated, because pretty much nobody is allowed to. User1937 (talk) 15:02, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Please understand that there is a reason why US prez pages are usually heavily protected. It's cuz they're most susceptible to vandalism. We honestly don't need trolls ruining the page; and with all this controversy going on with the US's up and coming prez, I'd say it's foolish that Donald's page isn't well guarded. --Sk8erPrince (talk) 14:02, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Also consider that this is the first time I've personally seen this protection template used, the 30/500, even when considering other presidents (they are almost always semi-protected). Donald Trump is an extremely provocative and controversial figure, and I'd imagine that the edit warring on this article would have been record breaking. I'm honestly surprised that they didn't go with Full-Protection (administrators only), but the 30/500 (30 days tenure, 500 edits), combined with all the other special rules, is fair. I don't expect this level of protection to end anytime soon - in fact, I bet it will need to be on here until Trump is out of office. The Legacy (talk) 23:38, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Bring up the "President-elect" thing again

I know it's been addressed above, but I strongly suggest not listing Donald Trump as the president-elect when he objectively isn't. If reliable sources are calling him the president-elect, they're objectively wrong, and objectivity is important on Wikipedia. Donald Trump will not be the president-elect until 19 December, no matter what reliable—but still fallible—sources say. All major online dictionaries (Dictionary.com, Oxford Dictionary, Webster's Dictionary) define president-elect as "someone who has been elected president but has not officially started the position," and even Wikipedia's United States presidential election page describes the election as ending after electors cast their votes. Wikipedia is the only source (that I can find) that defines the president-elect as the "apparent winner". I think this is especially important with the petition, that has over 4,000,000 signatures, urging the electoral college to vote Clinton for president (while I don't think it'd ever actually happen, it's still a possibility). YourAuntEggma (talk) 05:23, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

The movement to have the electors change their vote is a stunt and a farce. When Barack Obama was elected president, he became the president-elect. Just because it was Donald Trump who won this time around does not mean that we refuse the president-elect his rightful title. Trump was elected president on November 8, 2016. That is not a matter of dispute. 184.153.89.10 (talk) 05:53, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
You're right, it's been addressed previously. Multiple times. Have you read all of it? Do you have a new argument, or a counter to the consensus argument? If not, why did you bring it up again? ―Mandruss ☎ 06:35, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
YourAuntEggma, please consider reading WP:VNT, which provides a helpful explanation of how our verifiability policy is applied in these types of situations. ---Dr. Fleischman (talk) 07:07, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
DrFleischman, thank you, this helps. I understand now. However, out of curiosity, why does Wikipedia prefer incorrect information given from a reliable source over objectively correct information? YourAuntEggma (talk) 03:50, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
@YourAuntEggma: Probably because objective truth is elusive. More seriously, it has been argued that WP relies excessively on journalistic sources, therefore reflecting a potential systemic bias in the collective zeitgeist. However, for any objectively contested topic, sufficiently strong sources will be representing the contra position and will end up covered in WP with WP:DUE weight. Ultimately, with well-developed WP articles, the reader can learn about the many views about a subject, with appropriate balance about their levels of support in published commentary, and they can make their own opinion based on a fair representation of the issues. As knowledge evolves, so does coverage, which is why WP:Anyone can edit and WP:There is no deadline. — JFG talk 05:26, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
@JFG:} The clear preponderance of reliable sources say he is the president-elect. To my mind, that's the end of the discussion. Help me out here, what am I missing here? ―Mandruss ☎ 06:03, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
@Mandruss: I agree that he is, and I pointed this out to many fellow editors over this tumultuous week. You're not missing anything, except perhaps three decades of rappers' musings on Donald Trump. — JFG talk 06:15, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
Ok, just didn't see the benefit of discussing "WP philosophy"[20] in this case. I'm simple-minded. ―Mandruss ☎ 06:18, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, guess I was feeling educational towards my fellow editors this morning. — JFG talk 06:59, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Does the "oldest person" thing really belong in the lead?

This may well have been been discussed before, and have rolled off into the archives. My query isn't about the niceties of being the oldest person to become a first-term president, which is all I see above,[21] but about whether it's appropriate to have it in the lead at all. Mentioning it further down (currently in the "Presidential campaign, 2016" section) is OK I guess, but in the lead? As User:1937 cogently said above, "Obama was the first black President (that's big), if Hillary won, she would've been the first female President (that's big), but the oldest person?" I'd remove it myself, but I'm kind of scrupulous about not editing the article, in order to remain able to admin it. Bishonen | talk 08:31, 11 November 2016 (UTC).

I support it. Age seems relevant. I don't know how much the media have talked about his age, but it was a big issue in John McCain's campaign and he would have been 72 at inauguration. Between 2009 McCain and 2017 Trump, I'd put my money on 2017 Trump as more likely to die or become disabled in office (McCain is still kickin' and smilin' at 80). That Trump sets a new record seems lead-worthy. ―Mandruss ☎ 08:39, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Can we work in "bigoted" in between "oldest" and "person"? Doc talk 08:55, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
you will put money on this? i will take this bet on Trump being just fine for maybe even 8yrs! how much? KMilos (talk) 15:50, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
I didn't say I would put money on Trump dying or becoming disabled in office. I said that seems more likely than it did for McCain in his campaign, something that was a big issue in the media. Why, you ask? Because personality and worldview, etc, have been shown to be factors in longevity, and I think McCain's tend to favor longevity more than Trump's. That's obviously just my opinion, and I know nothing of the history of longevity in either man's family. But it was a silly aside, the bottom line is that the new record is more than a Trivial Pursuit factoid. ―Mandruss ☎ 15:59, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
The oldest seemed important for William Henry Harrison and Ronald Reagan and youngest elected for JFK. TFD (talk) 08:59, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
@Mandruss: OK, but wouldn't McCain's/Trump's choice of running mate be a "factor in longevity" too? ;) --Dervorguilla (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
@Dervorguilla: I get it. I think. :) ―Mandruss ☎ 04:48, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
@Mandruss: You did indeed. According to one opinion writer, Pence was "born to be Vice President"; according to most, Palin was not. I think she might have regarded herself as born to be the first female President, though -- albeit not necessarily the first elected female president... --Dervorguilla (talk) 23:20, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

I agree with User:Bishonen on this, but would support a compromise: how about if we keep it in the lead for now, but not in the lead paragraph of the lead? Per WP:Begin, "The first paragraph should define or identify the topic with a neutral point of view, but without being too specific. It should establish the context in which the topic is being considered by supplying the set of circumstances or facts that surround it. If appropriate, it should give the location and time. It should also establish the boundaries of the topic; for example, the lead for the article List of environmental issues succinctly states the limits of that list."Anythingyouwant (talk) 05:01, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

@Anythingyouwant: No objection to that edit, which you already made. There remains an organization issue, with para 3 referring to his nomination, then ending at "oldest to assume the presidency" with no mention of his election to the office. But that's a separate issue, and relatively minor. ―Mandruss ☎ 06:56, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
User:Mandruss, the 70 stuff has been put back into the opening paragraph by this edit which lacked an edit summary. The editor who did that was User:Giovanosky. I don't see consensus for that edit.Anythingyouwant (talk) 19:56, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
@Anythingyouwant: I already said I don't object to the move down. You want me to do something else? ―Mandruss ☎ 20:28, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
I just wanted to make you aware of it. I guess that after some more hours I'll revert back, if someone else doesn't do so first. It's very annoying that 1RR facilitates and incentivizes drive-by editing at this BLP by making it much harder to revert the drive-by edits. Obviously, there was no consensus for putting it back in the lead, but admins don't seem interested in enforcing the consensus requirement.Anythingyouwant (talk) 20:59, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
We are in agreement. ―Mandruss ☎ 05:39, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
@Anythingyouwant: Different mood two days later, different response.
Part of an admin's job appears to be to find reasons not to use the powers only they possess to enforce Wikipedia behavior policies. We are required to jump through almost impossible bureaucratic hoops, requiring much time that should be spent working on articles, to even stand a chance of any action. And, when we do that, we are required to spend even more time defending ourselves against boomerang claims that are clearly spurious attempts at diversion from the discussion of their behavior. The result is a house of mirrors beyond any human admin's capacity to assess, which is the whole point of the bad-faith diversion. That's how the game is currently played, many bad-faith editors are very skilled at playing it, and admins watch silently and do nothing about it because there would be an outcry from other bad-faith editors if they did so. Been there, done that, several times, and several times too many. The last time, the admin wrote the close statement in Swahili. English Wikipedia is broken and has been since I've been around.
This is an off topic rant, but a rare one from me and I guess I've earned it. Any editor is free to collapse me. ―Mandruss ☎ 09:14, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
Bishonen - I'd be OK either way. I do see others mention trivia items that would not seem to be suitable for Lead status so I guess it's acceptable, but where are guidelines or criteria on picking what to include ?? Trump would be oldest, and first billionaire, and first without prior government or military service, and first with foreign-born wife, and first divorced man, and first Twitter president, and .. ehh, I guss whatever enough people want to include will do but it still seems kind of fluff. Markbassett (talk) 06:57, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
I repeat that it is not a trivia item. Bad shit happens when presidents die or become disabled while in office, which is why advanced age is usually a campaign issue. Why do you think the Trump campaign was always talking about Clinton's health? If it were mere trivia, I would oppose it in the lead. ―Mandruss ☎ 07:08, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
User:Mandruss - Unless otherwise clarified, that sure looks like personal opinion rather than a WP guideline or criteria regarding side-remarks in a BLP. Just sayin we've got a LOT of 'firsts' here, and the "someone said of course its important" approach looks infeasible. It sounds a lot like the just-seen Climate change denial should be mentioned in the lead, and does not give a basis of inclusion. And yeah, still think trivia fluff that do not meet WP:DUE, but eh it seems a precedent of fluff exists. Markbassett (talk) 07:44, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
There is no WP guideline that says advanced age is a relevant issue as to U.S. presidents. We don't have guidelines like that. We are allowed, no, encouraged, to apply reasoning and editorial judgment, which is what I've done in this thread. We can go down a WP:DUE path if you like, surveying reliable sources to see exactly how much they have talked about Trump's age or the new age record. And we can debate endlessly about just how much RS is enough to justify one sentence in the lead. I would prefer not to, which means I would defer to a simple democratic vote among editors who can make some kind of cogent argument one way or the other. I think I qualify as one of those. I don't feel this is RfC-worthy however. ―Mandruss ☎ 07:52, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Firstly, "oldest person thing" is no way to speak about a senior citizen. Secondly, a "democratic election" has put this "thing" in the lead. Thirdly, talk pages are a place to discuss the improvement of articles, not countries.--Jack Upland (talk) 07:19, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

You clearly did not read the header correctly. The word "thing" refers to the part of the text referring to Trump's age relative to other presidents. Dustin (talk) 05:48, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
I read the header entirely correctly. The fact is that you did not read my comment correctly.--Jack Upland (talk) 09:40, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 16 November 2016


There is a mistake many times in here. I will edit it once. JOEYGEORGE123 (talk) 13:37, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

 Not done Not clear what change is requested. - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 13:43, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Colleges attended by Donald Trump

I suggest adding the following information to this article:

Donald Trump attended Fordham University from 1964 to 1966. After two years, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from U. Penn.'s Wharton School in 1968 with a bachelor’s degree in economics.

Source: http://heavy.com/news/2016/05/where-did-donald-trump-go-to-college-education-young-biography-news/ published May 27, 2016 Karin D. E. Everett (talk) 03:39, 10 November 2016 (UTC) 

  I also concur with making this edit. The Education section does not mention any schools or years. The Washington Post has reported on his K-12 and higher education institutions. Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/07/17/yes-donald-trump-really-went-to-an-ivy-league-school/ Smashrgrl (talk) 16:24, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

RFC closure

Thanks to User:Sandstein for closing the RFC at the top of this talk page. The RFC close says: "there's no consensus about whether the topic should appear in the lead." And, a template at the top of this talk page says, "Consensus required: All editors must obtain consensus on the talk page of this article before reinstating any edits that have been challenged (via reversion)." So it sounds to me like anyone can remove the material in question and it must then stay removed. Is that correct? I'm not going to remove it, and did not support removal during the RFC, but still it would be good to have some clarity here in case it is removed by someone else.Anythingyouwant (talk) 21:12, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

I removed the "material" in question since there was no clear consensus for inclusion(in the lead that is). --Malerooster (talk) 15:53, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
It has been restored without consensus.[22] Why do you think that's acceptable, User:Volunteer Marek? In the same edit, you also defied consensus here, right?Anythingyouwant (talk) 16:22, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
No, it was *removed* without consensus. If an RfC is closed as "no consensus. Discuss again" then we retain the status quo. You know this as you've used this very argument in other instances to include your preferred text in articles.
The "oldest person" was already there. I just moved it.Volunteer Marek (talk) 16:25, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Per discretionary sanctions, "Consensus required: All editors must obtain consensus on the talk page of this article before reinstating any edits that have been challenged (via reversion)." Moreover, the material you moved up was deliberately moved down pursuant to the talk page discussion that I already linked to.Anythingyouwant (talk) 16:32, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
No. Please stop trying to WP:GAME discretionary sanctions (again). Consensus is required to reinstate EDITS. That means consensus is required to REMOVE the text.
Here is Sandstein's wording: " I therefore recommend that the discussion is repeated after some time to determine whether the issue is still considered to be of lead-worthy importance after the election."
He closed the RfC on Nov 13, 20:54. At the time of the closure the article contained the text: [23]. This means that consnesus is required to REMOVE the text and the editor who started edit warring about it (again) was doing so in contravention of discretionary sanctions.Volunteer Marek (talk) 16:37, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
We have been through all this before, and admins rejected that interpretation.[24]Anythingyouwant (talk) 16:43, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Uh, no, that link does not show what you are trying to pretend it does. The text was in the article for awhile. The RfC said no consensus. Somebody went and removed it anyway, despite the RfC. End of story. Revisit the discussion when the lede gets bigger.Volunteer Marek (talk) 16:46, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
In fact NeilN appears to be making exactly the same point I'm making when he points out: "I think the wording carefully specifies "reinstating any edits that have been challenged" instead of "reinstating any additions that have been challenged" for this very reason.".Volunteer Marek (talk) 16:47, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
I have to admit, VM, that after reviewing the talk page discussion with Melanie and Neil, you appear to have a very good point regarding the sex material. But not the age material.Anythingyouwant (talk) 17:00, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
With regard to the age material, is the crux of the debate about *where* it should be, or if it should be included at all? Volunteer Marek (talk) 17:02, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
The age discussion is located above. Both removal and placement were discussed, and there is zero consensus for it to be in the lead (where you put it).Anythingyouwant (talk) 17:11, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
@Anythingyouwant: @Volunteer Marek: I've been watching this since the beginning, and it's not entirely clear to me what the "status quo" is. Both sides have good arguments in my opinion. The best path forward I think would be for you guys to find some sort of short-term compromise. The RfC closure says 1-2 short sentences if the material is included. The disputed material is effectively 3 sentences right now (1 long sentence with semicolon, 1 normal sentence). Why don't you two just work on trimming the material to a sentence, or even half a sentence? ~Awilley (talk) 23:48, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
I would be very glad to consider any shortened compromise language. But someone else ought to draft it because things that I do seem not to enjoy AGF these days.Anythingyouwant (talk) 23:54, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

<-- I'll Agf you to do it. I might disagree with what you propose but I'll, um, give you a chance.Volunteer Marek (talk) 00:33, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Okay, well, my sense is that what Trump said has gotten a lot more enduring publicity than the subsequent allegations against him, or his claims about a "smear campaign". (Incidentally, Dave Chappelle had some hilarious jokes about what Trump said in 2005, two days ago on SNL.) Anyway, how about the following? "On October 7, a 2005 audio recording surfaced in which Trump bragged about kissing and groping women or being able to do so without first seeking permission; he subsequently apologized for those 2005 comments."Anythingyouwant (talk) 01:49, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
As much as I like chiastic structure it seems awkward in the middle to state in two ways that he bragged about kissing/groping, and do we really have to mention twice that the comments were from 2005? ~Awilley (talk) 02:54, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
I'm glad to strike out the latter "2005" and am doing so now. On the other thing, I think a "chiasmus" is defined as "a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect." I don't think the stuff after the word "or" (in my draft) reverses the stuff before the word "or" so I don't think I am guilty of chiasmus. Sources describe what Trump said in different ways, and I'm trying to briefly capture some of that diversity, instead of limiting ourselves to a single gospel, so to speak.Anythingyouwant (talk) 03:09, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
I'm fine with that.Volunteer Marek (talk) 03:49, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
@Volunteer Marek, Anythingyouwant, and Awilley: Here's my proposal for the shortest meaningful version (copied from RFC discussion when Dervorguilla calculated an optimal word count and JasperTech challenged us to fit the essential points in WP:Brilliant prose): After lewd comments from 2005 emerged, 15 women accused Trump of unwanted sexual advances. Add one quote after "emerged" mentioning the Access Hollywood tape, and one quote after "advances" for the allegations. Or better, per WP:LEADCITE, just link to the relevant detailed articles. — JFG talk 08:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
User:JFG, I prefer leaving both the allegations and the claim of a smear campaign for later in the BLP. If any of the allegations is litigated then it may become more noteworthy so as to be leadworthy, but right now it's undue weight for the lead. Almost nobody can name any of the women making the allegations. The fact that he made the 2005 comments is undisputed and fully attributable to him, whereas the allegations are very much disputed. The media has quoted and described the 2005 comments much more than it has quoted or described the allegations. We should not mention the allegations in the lead without including Trump's denial, per WP:BLP, which would give the allegations even more undue weight.Anythingyouwant (talk) 10:06, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
@Anythingyouwant: If we mention only the lewd comments, the statement would feel incomplete and undue (imaginary mental dialog of John Q. Random Wikipedia reader: Oh, Trump did some dirty talk in 2005, so what? Ah, some women have actually complained about his sexual advances, now that makes sense. Wait, he denies the allegations, this story emerged in the last weeks of the presidential campaign and nobody sued him for sexual assault? Alright, case closed.) We can't let the reader hanging at "dirty talk"; it's either all or nothing, obviously including Trump's denial. Here's my proposed update:

After lewd comments from 2005 emerged, fifteen women accused Trump of unwanted sexual advances. Trump denied the allegations and blamed the incident on an electoral smear campaign.

Consensus on that? — JFG talk 10:37, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
No. We just had a RfC on this. If you want this "topic" covered in the lede, put together a new RfC and seek consensus. We now have 4-5 editors commenting here on a closed RfC that had input from 30-40 people. --Malerooster (talk) 14:16, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
Sorry, you can't filibuster consensus. The original RfC was closed as "no consensus" which means we retain the status quo - the quote stays in. A couple more reasonable editors are trying to work out a compromise version. You're just trying to sabotage that effort and force your way through mindless edit warring.Volunteer Marek (talk) 14:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
@Volunteer Marek, you can't filibuster consensus, that's the point, there was no consensus for including this so it stays out for now. Gain consensus for inclusion and add it. Talk about mindless. --Malerooster (talk) 17:43, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
Look, even Anythingyouwant above admits that the consensus needs to be *for removal*, not for inclusion, since this was in the article for awhile. There was no consensus for removing it, so it stays. Gain consensus for removing and then then remove it. Talk about mindless. Also read the discussion on the issue by administrators already linked above [25].
User:Awilley can you please comment on this? It looked like a few of us were trying to work out a compromise version, which was quickly sabotaged by Malerooster and a couple of others, who didn't even BOTHER participating in the discussion [26] [27]. See, this is what happens when you try to do it by book. Other, cynical BATTLEGROUND warriors show up, completely ignore the rules or try to WP:GAME them. Trying to reason with them is a non-starter as they're not interest in compromise. Reporting them is a huge time sink and mostly a waste of effort, especially with admins being understaffed. This is what happens.Volunteer Marek (talk) 21:56, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
@Volunteer Marek, stop accusing me of anything, especially sabotage just because you are clueless. The RfC was about inclusion of the "material" NOT removing it. There was no consensus for inclusion. Just because you don't like the outcome of the RfC doesn't mean you do some run around with a few other editors after 30-40 editors commented on this for over 4 weeks. --Malerooster (talk) 23:04, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
Cut it out with stuff like calling editors "clueless". I like the outcome of the RfC. What I don't like is you misrepresenting and WP:GAMEing it to push your POV.Volunteer Marek (talk) 09:14, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
You are clueless, especially when you say to push your POV. You are the one pushing your POV. What is my POV? You have no clue which is obvious. --Malerooster (talk) 12:10, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
Both of you, please cut it out with the "clueless," "mindless," "POV," and similar name calling. And don't say " he started it!" Just be grownups and stop it. MelanieN alt (talk) 18:47, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
JFG, you said it's important to mention "nobody sued him" but then your draft omits that. Also, your draft doesn't say who made the lewd comments, and omits something else very critical: Trump apologized. As I recall, the Access Hollywood story was huge news even before any women started making allegations, so I still don't think the allegations belong in the lead. The Bill Clinton article is listed as a "good article" and here's the grand total of sex stuff in the lead: "In 1998, Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives for perjury before a grand jury and obstruction of justice during a lawsuit against him, both related to a scandal involving White House (and later Department of Defense) employee Monica Lewinsky." Nothing about the allegations from all the other women (Jones, Willey, Broadhurst, Flowers, et cetera), either by name or not. And doesn't it tell you something that all those names are well known compared with the fact that almost no one can name the women who allege that Trump made unwelcome advances?Anythingyouwant (talk) 15:24, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
@Anythingyouwant: If we add more detail, that would defeat the purpose of summarizing. About the Bill Clinton lead, I agree (I even made that very point in a prior discussion), but let's not compare them too much per WP:OTHERSTUFF. — JFG talk 18:56, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
User:JFG, the lead currently says "On October 7, a 2005 audio recording surfaced in which Trump bragged about kissing and groping women and being able to do so without permission; he subsequently apologized for those comments." This seems okay to me for now. As more history unfolds, it seems likely that this will eventually get squeezed out of the lead.Anythingyouwant (talk) 19:00, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
@Malerooster: For the record, I don't want this topic covered in the lead (check my !vote in the RfC); however I respect the potential interpretation of RfC closure as "no consensus to exclude" and I'm trying to build a consensus version of the minimal stuff to include. i wold be equally happy with interpreting the closure as "no consensus to include", but I'm not going to fight either way. And note that while we discuss, the contents are indeed excluded because the pre-RfC version was deemed excessive, hence we need to agree on a short one. — JFG talk 18:56, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
@JFG: Hey, sorry, but it seems that the close was pretty clear, even bolded, that there was no consensus about whether the topic should appear in the lead. We don't NEED to agree on a short one just to include something UNLESS a NEW consensus forms to have this topic in the lede. It has been readded by Volunteer Marek, who accuses me of mindless edit warring. --Malerooster (talk) 19:19, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
@Malerooster: Again, my opinion is to exclude this info from the lead but I have decided not to fight this particular battle. — JFG talk 06:22, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
Again, stop misrepresenting the closure of the RfC. If there was no consensus on the material it means it stays in until a new consensus is reached. That's what we're trying to do here Malerooster, and you're not contributing. In fact, you're busy making sure that compromise and consensus are impossible.Volunteer Marek (talk) 09:14, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
It is you that is misrepresenting the closure to push your own POV. --Malerooster (talk) 12:10, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Should be removed, but biased editors will undo changes to put back in even though trump has already won and they can't influence anyone with their pathetic (and desperate) biased attempts anymore. seriously insane people, very harmful to encyclopedia. why not ban them? KMilos (talk) 17:45, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

WP:NPA, WP:NOTAFORUM, WP:BATTLEGROUND. You've already been given a DS warning I believe? Volunteer Marek (talk) 19:45, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
As has been discussed extensively in other sections, our consensus policy says that when there's no consensus, we should go back to the last stable version. Volunteer Marek, it's hard not to take your position as other than game-playing. The content has been heavily edit-warred over since it was introduced, and then tagged while the dispute was raging on this talk page. To suggest that this content was stable is ridiculous, frankly. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 18:21, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
"Controversial" is not the same thing as "unstable". It was stable, remaining in the article for weeks. It was "controversial" but so what? Anything can be made controversial with enough complaining and soapboxing, as is being done here. Anything can be made controversial if editors choose to ignore policy and instead run around calling those that disagree with them "insane".Volunteer Marek (talk) 19:45, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
@Volunteer Marek, it was in the article for weeks because an active RfC was going on. --Malerooster (talk) 21:00, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
The RfC closure clearly states No consensus about whether the topic should appear in the lead, i.e. no consensus to include. Out it goes. Just like the election, it's over. Time to accept and move on. Athenean (talk) 18:24, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
The trick you're trying to pull is in those two little letters "i.e". No consensus here means "retain the status quo". Which in this case would mean "no consensus to exclude".Volunteer Marek (talk) 19:34, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Nope, this stuff is barely a month old. The status quo is without this stuff. Appeals to the "stable" version are nonsense (as they always are). Athenean (talk) 21:31, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
@Volunteer Marek, then why did you correct yourself? Maybe because the RfC was about if the "material" should belong in the lead and there was NO consensus for that. It was NOT about removing the "material". I actually think it would have been more noteworthy if Trump had lost the election, but that's irrelevant. --Malerooster (talk) 20:52, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

The closure clearly states that the topic should be revisited after some time, not that anything need to change immediately. Quite frankly, I find the idea that a serious issue such as this shouldn't matter anymore just because you won an election (or "won" isn't quite accurate in his case) to be ludicrous; if anything the sexual misconduct controversy is even more relevant. This material has been included in the lead for weeks and is the stable version. It is also clearly supported by a consensus when counting arguments that are actually based on policy and not WP:IDONTLIKEIT and WP:IVOTETRUMP. --Tataral (talk) 19:40, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

@Tataral, of course its not the "stable" version. That would be the version before the "material" was added. --Malerooster (talk) 21:05, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
"Stable version" is just an appeal to tradition fallacy to hide the obvious. When the arguments run out, it's time to wheel out the "stable version". There is nothing more desperate than appeals to imagined "stable versions". Athenean (talk) 21:34, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Whatever it is, it's part of the DS regime. So abide.Volunteer Marek (talk) 03:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
"Last stable version" is defined here.  :)Anythingyouwant (talk) 09:55, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

(unindent) The Access Hollywood tape may have had some relevance before the election, because it could have affected the outcome, but it clearly didn't, and has lost its relevance. Since there was no consensus to include even before the election, there is even less now. Length is irrelevant. There is no consensus to include, period. Claims of "consensus" are entirely misleading. Athenean (talk) 19:09, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

That's a good argument for exclusion indeed. — JFG talk 06:22, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Slovene

please change ((Slovene)) to ((Slovenia|Slovene)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:541:4305:c70:8838:e047:4607:de0d (talk) 18:46, 16 November 2016‎ (UTC)

 Done — Andy W. (talk) 18:54, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Question about extended-autoconfirmed protection

Is the extended-autoconfirmed protection added yesterday (which is currently set as "indefinite") going to be kept infinitely, or reduced to high-risk semi-protection once the vandalism risk has reduced? I understand that this is among the most controversial articles on here right now, but I thought it was only Wikipedia policy to infinitely extended-autoconfirmed protect articles relating to Israel and Palestine. My understanding is that it is only used temporarily on other articles. By "indefinite", does it mean that it will be extended-autoconfirmed protected until the vandalism risk goes down (which could be several weeks/months)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gourleyo (talk • contribs) 21:19, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Indefinite is convenient but not infinite, and there's no real reason it should last for a long time. When assessing how long it will last, we look at how hot the topic is, and any related vandalism on other articles. Obviously within one or two days of the election it's still going to be quite hot but I don't see it lasting for several weeks or months. I hereby ping @Ks0stm:, the protecting admin, for any further comment. -- zzuuzz (talk) 21:54, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks - yeah, I thought it was probably protected indefinitely because we don't know how long he is going to be this controversial (among many) for. Regardless of my own views, I had no intention to vandalise, or even edit the page; I was simply curious because protection beyond semi/move is modaretely rare.

Gourleyo (talk) 22:39, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

@Gourleyo and Zzuuzz: Yeah, the only reason I didn't set an expiry is because I didn't want the article completely unprotected upon expiry, and there's no way to have it automatically roll back to semi-protection instead of no protection. Any admin can feel free to reset this to semi whenever they feel the time is right to give semi-protection another chance. Ks0stm (T•C•G•E) 07:54, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

That's pretty much what I guessed - we don't know how long the page is going to be a top target for vandals, and if you set an expiry date, it will automatically revert to having no protection at all (and since he's the future President the vandalism risk is likely to remain high, so the admins probably want the protection back to semi).

Gourleyo (talk) 10:59, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

I've today set the protection back at semi (which is always going to be a minimum for this article). I would have preferred some of the latent disputes to have settled a bit more and I'm sure there'll be some more controversy, but the huge spike in traffic is over and the number of editors has greatly reduced. Extending ECP until, say, January doesn't seem justified. Any admin is welcome to change the protection if/when there are significant new developments. -- zzuuzz (talk) 19:35, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

KKK celebration

I don't have it right in front of me, but I have seen news articles saying the Ku Klux Klan plans a victory celebration. Right now it hasn't happened so I guess it's too early to put that anywhere, but it seems relevant since one of the reasons people opposed Trump was KKK support.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:38, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Which is of course silly. It's like opposing Clinton simply because many of her supporters are flag burners, street rabble and other sorts. There will always be fringe groups who favor any political figure. Bear in mind that we live in a media-oriented society, with many people who grew up in front of a TV set and still continue to watch hours of television, every day, sitting there in a passive state with their mouth hung open, staring at the bright light while all the garbage fills their mental background (psyche). And of course politicians and activists know the angrier you make people, the less you have to explain yourself and have a litany of trigger words to effect this. Crowd control 101. The sad part is, without TV many people wouldn't know what to do with themselves during the evening. No doubt the media ran with this idea of KKK support over and again, but we shouldn't mention it here, anymore than we should say that many flag burners supported Clinton in her bio'. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 21:59, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

New RfC

To any and all newcomers and others who may have missed it, many objections regarding the existing photo have surfaced since the election and a new RfC (conference) has been started above regarding the replacement of the existing photo. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 03:30, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

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