Talk:March 2026 No Kings protests

Shouldn't the background section be a little more specific on why the protests are happening? ~2026-10257-68 (talk) 02:29, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

The title "March 2026 No Kings protests" would bring this article in alignment with October 2025 No Kings protests and June 2025 No Kings protests. Asking for consensus. Thanks. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 14:37, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

@WomenArtistUpdates: I moved this article away from that title per WP:PRECISE and WP:CONCISE, which correspond to two bullet points under WP:CRITERIA while WP:CONSISTENT corresponds to one. Per WP:RMUM, you are free to revert my move immediately if you want. Also, "No Kings 3" is another option that avoids this issue entirely and may be preferable under WP:COMMONNAME. –Gluonz ^{talk contribs} 15:02, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

@Gluonz:, I think we have had this same discussion with the October 2025 "No Kings" page (Talk:October 2025 No Kings protests. Let's see what the consensus is. I don't want to start an edit war :) --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:21, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

The earlier consensus was against a merger, but that discussion took place when there was only two protests. With a third now in the books (or…er…the encyclopedia), I think it's worth revisiting. Each event is arguably notable enough to warrant its own article, but given how much the No Kings protests overlap in terms of framing, motives, organizers, participants, and overall context, a consolidated article with dedicated sections for each protest date might serve readers better. Per WP:DUPLICATE, that degree of overlap may itself be a reasonable basis for merging.

I also have some WP:RECENTISM and WP:NOTNEWS concerns about a lot of the city-by-city and state-by-state coverage. I think a lot of that could be condensed, as much of it reads more like event documentation than enduringly notable encyclopedic content. A merger would be a natural opportunity to condense this material significantly. 

Not suggesting this needs to happen right away, but it seems like the right direction as this article about the most recent No Kings protests matures in the next few weeks. AndAllForWhat? (talk) 01:05, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

@AndAllForWhat?: The intention of this topic is to to discuss renaming this page to align with other article title style. It is not about changing or merging content. You should start a separate topic for your concerns about WP:RECENTISM and WP:NOTNEWS. Thanks.--WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:17, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

@WomenArtistUpdates

Whoops, sorry! I misread your original comment. AndAllForWhat? (talk) 17:09, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Condensed? I disagree and think each state section should be expanded. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:58, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

I don't know if this is a valid criterion, but if there's a No Kings 4 later this year (as there may well be) we'll be unhappy with the current name. The alternative at that point would be to merge two 2026 events in this page, which would be wildly inconsistent with the two 2025 pages. Larrydberg (talk) 19:16, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

My take, as of now rather than as of where the situation was in the past, is that it would be best to organize all these pages by individual protest on a single date (a separate page for each individual No Kings protest, one protest date per page), rather than grouping them by year. It's becoming very clear that each one is going to be notable in its own right, and that there will be enough content for each to justify standalone pages. (I'll admit to having some concerns of my own about the quantity of location-by-location detail, but it looks to me like the consensus is to include all of this, and any change about that should probably be left for the future, when it will be clearer what the historical perspective is.) --Tryptofish (talk) 20:55, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

I'm assuming we'd split this off into a March 2026 page when and if an announcement is made for another this year. As of now, I'd say it's fine to leave as-is. I agree with @Tryptofish that each date has enough detail and notability to justify its own page -- and history will show in the future if that remains to be the case. The location-by-location details of each are notable for now, particularly as far as participation numbers and diversity of locations keep growing, although in the future that may make the past events less notable than whatever the largest event is. Captainbeetroots (talk) 21:43, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

• Support merging all pages into one major topic. Splitting all of this up does a great disservice to the reader and fragments a coherent understanding of the topic. Most of this stuff will not stand the test of time. We need to practice summarizing and distilling what is important and conveying that to the reader. Viriditas (talk) 01:16, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

  Strongly oppose merging articles. The protests are independently notable. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 13:10, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

I was BOLD and renamed/moved this page BACK to March 2026 No Kings protests https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php, which was performed without any discussion. Above, the editor blessed this move back. No resonable objections wwere presented.  Done. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:09, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

• BTW - I strongly oppose merging or reformatting this page. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:09, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

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I moved a couple images out of the infobox because they weren't really major cities, and to decrease the size of the infobox. Maybe images of protests should only be in the infobox for major cities, like Chicago or Washington D.C., because there are going to be a lot of people trying to add their images to this article and it might clutter it and make it hard to navigate. (My image of the Phoenix protests were pushed down to Colorado's section because of how large the infobox was) AnthonyTheGuy (talk) 05:32, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

I think we should put the amount of protest locations and number of protestors. Looks to be that there were potentially up to 3300 locations and at least 8 million, but maybe up to 9 million protestors. Here are some sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/03/28/no-kings-protests-marches-record-turnout/

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/us/no-kings-protest-photos-videos.html

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/no-kings-protests-nationwide-attendance-numbers/507-5236e519-2534-415e-be0f-f0c57f798586 JeremyKent2 (talk) 22:15, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

The numbers have already started being added as other post-event sources show up... - Adolphus79 (talk) 22:20, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes, it may take a few more days until we have sufficient sourcing to be sure of this, but it is important to include it. In particular, sources that place it in the context of the 3.5% rule would be very useful. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:48, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

@Another Believer

Could you explain why you're removing the ʻokina from "Hawaiʻi" in the article? (E.g. Special:Diff/1346532420) If the article is going to use ʻokina and kahakō (such as with "Līhuʻe"), it should be consistent about using them. Mahalo, Musashi1600 (talk) 12:16, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

Just trying to follow the parent article, Hawaii. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 12:17, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

The Hawaii article doesn't use the ʻokina because the common English spelling doesn't use it (and because Wikipedia has a long-standing convention of not renaming articles simply to include diacritics), but if other Hawaiian place names are going to be used in this article, then this article should use the correct Hawaiian spelling for consistency. Musashi1600 (talk) 12:24, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

I don't agree but ok. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 12:25, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

As there is no real reason given to use native spelling instead of official government name. ~2026-15745-06 (talk) 19:45, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

I prefer to follow the appearance of parent articles, as evidenced by the above discussion. Can some other editors weigh in here re: "Hawaiʻi" vs "Hawaii" and "Hawaiʻi State Capitol" vs "Hawaii State Capitol", etc? The Wikipedia articles are called Hawaii and Hawaii State Capitol. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:04, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

Can we please get some more sources about the number of protestors? Purely going by the organizers word isn't typically something Wikipedia does when it comes to articles like these. ~2026-15745-06 (talk) 12:08, 20 April 2026 (UTC)