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Continued from Talk:Donald Trump#Treatment of facts, since the usual Trump apologists have shut down a discussion they don't like. They often do this to head off the development of a consensus for an article.

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I doubt that Trump has any relationship – dubious or otherwise – with truth, facts, or reality but RS do not use "lie", verb or noun. WaPo's latest Fact Checker analysis (Sep 13) counting more than "5000 false or misleading claims" uses "lying" once, and it's not about Trump ("One of his campaign aides has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI". Until they do, we're stuck with false and misleading, I think. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 18:14, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

There are many RS which use the words "lie(s)", "lying", and "liar" about Trump. There has been a very high level debate among editors of RS as to whether they should use those words, and some have just decided to start doing it, and others won't. So it all depends on the source, and we do use the words used by RS. Here's a section about that very subject. It's rough and not ready for use, but is part of an article I am preparing, all based on hundreds of RS. No article on the subject will ever exist if Trump's apologist continue to get their way. -- BullRangifer (talk) PingMe 00:33, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

@BullRangifer: I'll get back to you when I have more time. Just this for now: I once tried to add one or two reliably sourced sentences on the "Swedish" descent of the family. They were deleted pretty much immediately with the reasoning that they made the article too long, if I remember correctly. Here's a recent article calling Trump a serial liar. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 04:36, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

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That huge chunk of "achievements" text on the Chao page is most likely by COI accounts who are adding flattering content about here. It should just be removed in full. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 21:11, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

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It's not a really big deal, but since you said "per Mandruss" I wanted to make sure you understood that my preference was to accept the duplicate and keep the bundle at 6. If you understand that and disagree, I defer to your judgment. ―Mandruss ☎ 07:56, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Mandruss: I understand and, in this case, I prefer the separate ref because it saves 199 bytes. Every little bit helps, in view of article length complaints/flags. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 08:19, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

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Mandruss: Thanks. I'll defend the semicolon to my last dying breath. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 17:12, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

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Biden says he doesn't remember Reade, not doesn't remember her working for him, see citation. We also know the year, and who's who. Did you mean this summary for something else, POV-related? InedibleHulk (talk) 09:56, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

InedibleHulk I got called away. I just finished editing Talk. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 10:09, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Cool, I'll see it. InedibleHulk (talk) 10:11, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, long talk page so I can’t find the ping on mobile. Only to the image. The captain can be worked out through the normal editing and talk page process. Likely doesn’t need an RfC :) TonyBallioni (talk) 15:06, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

TonyBallioni: OK, thanks. I'll edit and see what happens. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 15:13, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

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Fixed it. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 07:39, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Here's the full article in an easier link without all the ads and videos. It's still not substantial imo but figured you'd want to see it. Praxidicae (talk) 12:20, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, Praxidicae. Just as I thought—Trump endorsement, viral ad, no bio. Fun read 'though: less than 10 percent of the residents of the "disgusting, rodent-infested Baltimore city portion" voted for her. Must have been tough finding some of them for soundbites in her video. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 17:50, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

As someone who lives in her district, if I were to walk up to 10 random people and ask them about her, they’d have no clue what I’m talking about. Praxidicae (talk) 19:15, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

@Praxidicae: "her district"—the 7th, the 6th, or the 2nd? When WJZ asked her about not residing in the 7th District she said that she lives in "Middle River which is the 6th District". From looking at the map, seems to me, 'though, that Middle River is in Maryland’s 2nd Congressional District? Always a pleasure to have tourists come to your city and look for the "Urban Horror" neighborhood for whatever agenda they’re pushing. In this case, scripted reality (aka fiction) courtesy of Turning Point USA’s Benny Johnson. Snopes dissected the ad: cherry-picked location, filmed repeatedly from different angles, claiming that it was a random walk through the city. Seems fairly obvious that she’s not seriously running for office. She’s applying for Omarosa’s job as Token Black Woman at the WH or a paying job on Fox. Either way, she’s got the mandatory look down. The AfD currently seems to be heading towards "keep." Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 16:29, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

The district she's running for is 7th but you are correct that she does not live in it (or even near it...) which apparently is not a requirement for congressional seats...Praxidicae (talk) 16:32, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

In this edit, the URL for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle is incorrect and duplicates that of the preceding cite. ―Mandruss ☎ 12:36, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, Mandruss. I corrected the URL. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 12:47, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you! ―Mandruss ☎ 12:52, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Just wanted to give you props for the TPUSA work. It's a mess of an article but I think you are doing a really good job of pushing the content towards impartial presentation. I think many confuse trying to be impartial with outright whitewashing. Anyway, thumbs up. Springee (talk) 13:24, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, Springee. You made my day. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 17:08, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

My honors were misstated on a book jacket the other way, repeated endlessly wrong until my next book was published. Otherwise excellent projection on the Ivanka Trump talk page as if you speak for the honors classes of the country. 2601:46:C801:B1F0:49C6:4C51:38BB:C569 (talk) 20:53, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

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Re this edit, why? |newspaper= is an alias of |work=, so there is no difference in what readers see. What is the benefit of changing the coding at a cost of 1,111 bytes? ―Mandruss ☎ 10:18, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

@Mandruss: It is? Maybe I'm confusing this with your cite cleanups of "cite web". I reverted. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 10:22, 10 October 2020 (UTC) @Mandruss: Oh, rats, that didn't work, will have to do it manually. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 10:26, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm not married to the cite news idea and I only do that since the guidance says to use cite news for web-based news sources. In contrast, the guidance doesn't say to use |newspaper= for web-based newspapers, necessarily, and one could hold the opinion that it should only be used for paper newspapers. That and the other |work= aliases (website, etc) exist primarily to give editors something to argue about. ―Mandruss ☎ 10:33, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

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Hi there. Regarding this edit, who are you referring to that gave the reason for removing this text as "removing"? I certainly had not given that as a reason, and was not the reason I did so. Please self-revert. Thanks. Onetwothreeip (talk) 05:03, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Onetwothreeip, I believe this was your edit? I objected to the removal of the section which has been in the article for over six months. (Another editor also objected and reinserted it; the duplicate has since been removed.) When the removal of long-standing content is objected to, the editor wanting to remove it must discuss the removal on the talk page, AFAIK. There have been several previous discussions already, and the incident is receiving renewed attention because of the contrast with what happened at the Capitol. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 21:16, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

That was my edit and nowhere did I state the reason for removing it was "removing" it, so please don't misrepresent me in the future. The objection was made after I had removed it, not before. Onetwothreeip (talk) 21:28, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Onetwothreeip, I had no reason to object to the removal before it took place. You edit summary said "removing standalone Lafayette Square section. Could maybe add a mention of it somewhere." That does not explain why you removed it. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 21:34, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

That's correct, it does not. You shouldn't have represented that a reason was given. Onetwothreeip (talk) 21:37, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, don't know what happened there. Editing on my mobile and must have misclicked along the way.Pipsally (talk) 17:22, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

No problem, Pipsally. I just wondered why you removed the digit—I had initially typed the name without it and later corrected the typo. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 17:37, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi. I notice that in this edit you cut a bit about the recently disclosed details of POTUS condition being far worse than the contemporaneouos messaging. I think that made clear that "later revaled" meant MUCH later. Is there some way you could add some words that retain the meaning. Thanks for all your recent work on this article. SPECIFICO talk 16:15, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

SPECIFICO, I added the specifics. I didn't like "upbeat" and "worrisome" and figured the sentence still conveyed the same message without the clause. But you're right, it was missing the part about the seriousness of Trump's condition having been withheld. Here's the rest of the story. (Now I'll probably hear "too much detail":).

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@MJL:, @Blue Square Thing: Thanks for your help. It was my first effort at splitting a page. Couldn't figure out how to get rid of the REDIRECTs, despite reading HELP and not for lack of trying, and then apparently things went downhill from there (BE, etc.) Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 06:55, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

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You have violated the following editing restriction: "If an edit you make is reverted you must discuss on the talk page and wait 24 hours before reinstating your edit." Self revert immediately. Also the significance for his life and Presidency is that the Accords were his major foreign policy success during his time as President and led to him getting recognition as a pro-Israel President. You know, literally what the sources all say?! Davefelmer (talk) 15:52, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Dave, FWIW, you seem to do a lot of tough controversial edits to article text w.o. getting talk page consensus. This is likely to be frustrating and unproductive. I suggest you do the right thing and try to gain talk page buy-in. RS do not elevate this to the level you claim, IMO. SPECIFICO talk 16:14, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

• Moving this to Donald Trump talk page. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 16:58, 7 April 2021 (UTC) The editor is mistaken. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 13:40, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Regarding the "paywalled" link, note that Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library provides access to certain web resources, including several newspaper archives. These are invaluable for work on historical figures (as with my recent work expanding John T. Newton, and my previous effort writing Charles Erasmus Fenner), but can provide access to some print resources that are still hard to find online for contemporary figures. Cheers! BD2412 T 18:43, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

@BD2412: Thanks! 5 years on WP, and I didn't know about the library. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 11:11, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Sorry about this. I thought reftalks go at the bottom of sections. My bad. Dr. Swag Lord (talk) 07:04, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

@Dr.Swag Lord, Ph.d: AFAIK, the template needs to be added to each post if you want to use complete cites. Putting it underneath your signature is OK as long as nobody puts any edits between your signature and the template. Then it gets shuffled towards the end of the section or the page, and long discussions become difficult to read. It's safer to put the template on its own line between the text and the signature. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 07:29, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

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@Valjean: Seems I blamed myself for something PackMecEng did :) Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 16:02, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Ohhhh no you don't! I was just undoing an edit by Soibangla. It went back to the version here. PackMecEng (talk) 16:04, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

PackMecEng Yep, you did. And in this edit, the one before your revert to Muboshgu's, Soibangla had added the title to the deprecated cite. No worries, I have since filled in the rest of the cite. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 16:08, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

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@Elizium23: If you don't agree with an edit I make in an article, please discuss on the talk page of the article instead of making a general accusation on my talk page. I summarized my edit here, then you added a POV tag which was promptly reverted as tendentious tagging by another editor. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 13:09, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Space4Time3Continuum2x, I have been discussing quite clearly on the talk page, which is why my tag should not have been reverted. Elizium23 (talk) 13:16, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

@Elizium23: You didn't agree with what appears to me to be the consensus and went ahead and used the version you thought best, and when I reversed it you tagged the consensus version as POV—way to cooperate. "seems vague but whatever" isn't much of an argument. BTW, I wasn't involved in the "it was reported/reportedly" vs "X and Y reported" discussion. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 13:31, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Why did you accuse GiantSnowman of vandalism in this edit? I'm not even sure why you undid his edit at all.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:01, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Bbb23: explanation here. However, I cannot see any Swastika here??? GiantSnowman 14:04, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

I'm not 100% sure, but from looking at the Help desk, it appears that some templates were vandalized that caused swatsikas. Perhaps when Space4 looked at the version of the article after your edit, one of those templates made it look like you had done it. Now the template has been fixed, and so the same thing looks okay. That's the best I can do.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:07, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Bbb23, GiantSnowman, I didn't accuse the editor, I asked whether the overlay had anything to do with their edit. I don't see the overlay now when I look at the differences but it was there before I reverted, and I went backward and forward through the history a couple of times before reverting. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 14:08, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Bbb23, GiantSnowman, thanks. I was going to revert my revert but someone already did. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 14:12, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

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FormalDude, what was the outcome? The incident was archived but there doesn't seem to have been a closure. Does that mean it died of old age? Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 14:22, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

It does indeed mean it died of old age. (talk page watcher) –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 17:25, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

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Good evening, just thought I'd inform you that the recent David Rubenstein Show interview with General Milley provided a lot of background information on him. If possible, there might be some details worth adding to his article. SuperWIKI (talk) 16:43, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

@SuperWIKI: thanks for pointing out the source. I'm generally a bit uncomfortable with interpreting primary sources like interviews of subjects, especially "soft" interviews by non-journalists like Rubenstein, without finding secondary sources. I just added some early life info and a link to the interview—it's a bit awkward, what with the long infobox on the right side. What details were you thinking of including? (And it might be better to continue this discussion on the talk page of Mark Milley in case other editors want to weigh in.) Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 11:39, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

LemonJuice78 never responds to pings, either here or on his talk page, and I don't see any indication that attitudes have changed in response to any of these. See here for further detail. SuperWIKI (talk) 10:31, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

SuperWIKI, I don't know what to do, either. It's difficult to AGF when an edit like this one, for example, is trivia and seems to be mostly invented—I've read and own both books, and I went back and checked, they're definitely not the sources. Some edits appear to be pranks, like this one. "Center" and "777x777px"—who does that? They've been editing on WP for 18 months and haven't written a single edit summary so far. I don't recall having come across them on any other page, so I guess I'll just revert and complain on the Milley talk page if they do it again, hoping an admin will take notice of their behavior. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 12:31, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Wait, how is a ref name a prank? (Never mind, misclick) SuperWIKI (talk) 12:34, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Go look at all the 2001-and- beyond Air Force four star general bio pages, and the pages of a multitude of Milley's predecessors as CJCS, like Earle Wheeler. Fingerprints all over those. They're so expansive that I can't fix all of them. Most notably, I think he's done the required reading on these topics but the misinterpretation of such content is bad enough to counteract that. SuperWIKI (talk) 12:38, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Oh, wow, feeling the amazement due to causing his edit condition gone worse. They're citing the WorldCat search page again instead of any actual source. According to the Arlington Cemetery website, the son's name was Gilmore "Bim" Wheeler, not Dwayne, no daughter mentioned as surviving her mother in 2004. I just reverted the edit. Does the editor seem to be following you around to pages you've edited? Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 13:21, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

With the exception of this one page where he kept adding Air Force photos at a disproportionate rate (I wanted to keep it equal among services), no. Honestly, it's more like I follow him around now trying to clean up after him. I don't want to disparage him in any way beyond possible WP:CIR, since I don't know the actual conditions on his end. SuperWIKI (talk) 13:45, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Air Force fan, maybe, unhappy that Army is still the bigger service and that Air Force general Goldfein lost the prestigious top job to Milley ? I think that Juice's editing is borderline disruptive (here's hoping that it's a passing phase and that they'll grow out of it), and, if I come across it, I'll revert and write a complaint, on their Talk page next time. In your place, I'd do the same. There's a lot of crap on Wikipedia. You fix it when you happen to come across it but it's not your responsibility to search for and fix all of it. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 14:12, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

I rarely have a lot of time on my hands so I have to set priorities when editing pages on Wikipedia, since I have my own set to update. Big problem for me there is that I get this really bad twitch in my muscles whenever I see badly-written or incorrect edits, knowing I can't correct all of them. It's so bad that I've had to unfollow a whole bunch of pages because Juice made such big additions to them it's hard not to notice. It took a whole afternoon to fix a page that Juice added content to, General Mark D. Kelly. The fact that Juice's edits aren't noticed by a majority of people is irking me more, but again Wikipedia is a big encyclopaedia. I just hope someone with time and experience on their hands can do some massive edits someday. SuperWIKI (talk) 14:32, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Yup, priorities and time—dito. If you have a list of pages that need weeding, I'll take a whack at it 'though it may take some time. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 15:34, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

I will give you a list in time. Do note though, that among his disruptive edits, there are a lot of meaningful content additions that Lemon has added, if overshadowed by the poor English and (intentional?) misinterpretations of the facts. If the sources that add new content are deemed reliable by you, I would recommend not completely undoing those edits by LemonJuice and simply rewording, condensing and correcting them where necessary. SuperWIKI (talk) 02:44, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

P.S. "Air Force fan, maybe, unhappy that Army is still the bigger service and that Air Force general Goldfein lost the prestigious top job to Milley". I recently reported a guy who sockpuppeted just for that reason here. SuperWIKI (talk) 14:34, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Space4Time3Continuum2x He's back at it. Going to bed. SuperWIKI (talk) 15:53, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Ummm, Continuum? I don't think it worked. He went straight back to worldcatting William Westmoreland when the ban was lifted. Also shoehorning the Milley selection as CJCS into A Very Stable Genius and I Alone Can Fix It. SuperWIKI (talk) 17:59, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Oh, great. Pinging Acroterion and Neutrality. The addition to "Stable Genius" is unsourced. The book mentions Milley exactly once, in a sentence saying that Mattis's replacement Shanahan liked to bring Dunford or Milley to any substantive meetings. In "I alone", the editor moved one sentence from the section where it belongs into one where it doesn't and added a chunk of text to the "Contents" section that made it appear as if the book was mostly about how Milley allegedly got to be CJCoS. Westmoreland: I don't have the time right now to compare before and after Juice's editing but I will, and I'll get ahold of Sorley to see if the book is a source for any of the edits. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 19:04, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Here's the list I have so far (from most recent edits to earliest). Some of these may be relevant and only require condensation of image captions, fixing citations and complying with WP:SOB standards:

SuperWIKI (talk) 09:46, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

SuperWIKI: good lord, from Jimmy Carter to Rumsfeld's memoirs—a book I'm not planning to read—the editor's sure been busy. I should have known better, forgot about "never volunteer". Hope you don't mind that I hatted the list. Alright, I'll start at the top and add a when I start on a page and another one when I'm done. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 18:13, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

P.S. LemonJuice came back as a sock account and made some big edits, thankfully to pages on the list you haven't checked yet. I shut that down real quick. SuperWIKI (talk) 15:24, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

SuperWIKI, I can go back and check. What was the name of the sock account, and how did you figure it out? Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 15:27, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Here. Goodnight.SuperWIKI (talk) 16:03, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

When adding {{citation needed}}, that date is specified as "month year". There is no "day, ". MB 22:10, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

MB, that's what I used to do until someone corrected me. OK, I'll revert to "month year". Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 22:12, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

I already fixed them. The date puts it into a category such as Category:Articles with unsourced statements from November 2021. Adding a day here is definitely wrong. The day does go in {{citation}} templates where you are specifying a source (if there is a day the source was published). MB 22:19, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

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I see that you restored the change from Arc to ARC that I made, which was in one of the sources. Did you notice that ARC are probably the initials of the founder Abraham Cinta? Bob K31416 (talk) 16:38, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Bob K31416, sorry, you're right about the sources spelling the name in all caps, I didn't pay close enough attention when typing. No idea whether Cintas has a middle initial R. There seem to be quite a few companies named Arc/ARC. If I had thought about an acronym at all, I would have guessed Acquisition·Research·Capitalization or something along those lines. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 18:10, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

On second thought, it probably isn't his initials since he doesn't seem to use a middle name or initial. BTW, while looking around I found . Bob K31416 (talk) 19:45, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Bob K31416, his middle initial appears to be D. One of the managing partners on ARC Capital's website, Jesús Emilio Hoyos, appears to be the same person as Jesús Emilio Hoyos Quintero who is listed as director of this Panamanian ARC Capital Investments Inc. Its director and president is Abraham Dominguez Cinta, who's also the Chief Executive Director of Go EZ Corporation which came to the FEC's attention. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 20:57, 1 January 2022 (UTC) Another managing partner of ARC Capital in Shanghai is Crystal Zhang, possibly the same person as XIAOYUE ZHANG, director and secretary, of the Panamanian company. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 21:04, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

D settles that. XIAOYUE possibly as you say, and there is only one Zhang (Crystal) listed on the management team webpage. Bob K31416 (talk) 23:30, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

New JCS PDF got released with a new Milley section. Might have helpful info for you. SuperWIKI (talk) 04:25, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

SuperWIKI, that will help to verify the military Career and operational deployment sections. I probably won't get around to it in the next few days (kinda busy at work), and I'll get back to the unfinished LemonJuice list, too. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 14:35, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for your comments regarding Donald Trump and his Raspberry award. My concerns beyond the fact it was unsourced, would also be that it is a non-defining category. But that's something that is a concern about the cat as a whole, and across a great many of the BLP articles given it. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 17:34, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Howdy. My apologies for any negative comments I made about MSNBC news (in general) or Rachel Maddow (in particular), at the Trump talkpage. I've learned minuets ago that this isn't allowed, even if it is with a tinge of humour. GoodDay (talk) 19:52, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

GoodDay, what are you talking about? (Partially agree with the heading, above, though. Fox News bad, MSNBC some bad, some good, sometimes excellent.) Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 20:39, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Sometimes (not blaming you), the unilateral decisions of others on what can & can't be posted at Trump's talkpage, can be frustrating. GoodDay (talk) 20:41, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Nonsense. If you say a woman is "yapping" you will be reprimanded here or anywhere else decent people hear it. SPECIFICO talk 00:34, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

I have no idea what you're talking about. GoodDay (talk) 03:44, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

It's like this. InedibleHulk (talk) 07:06, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Hissy fit didn't make the list? Or is that reserved for male Trumps now (, , , )? Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 17:27, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Also, her boss is Steve Benen, who (quite like Frank Rich, Craig Unger and Maggie Haberman) some decent people here consider a "respected journalist", never yappy or bossy or emotional. InedibleHulk (talk) 07:54, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Keeping track of my Talk page edits, are you? Awww, I didn't know you cared. Benen is Maddow's boss? I don't think so. He's "a producer" of the show and the editor of the MaddowBlog. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 16:42, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

It was one thing you told me directly last month, don't flatter yourself. Those Rich, Unger and Haberman fans might have an overfriendliness case against me, though, that took sifting. Benen may not sign Maddow's cheques, but a producer does decide what the talent generally speaks about and when. That's a boss in my books. Who do you think her boss is? InedibleHulk (talk) 07:35, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

I see her president is Rashida Jones now, which is fine, but not as cool as the name suggests. InedibleHulk (talk) 08:20, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

You shouldn't be frustrated just because people don't like derogatory remarks about women. ––FormalDude talk 08:56, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

We're Canadian, identity politics isn't taught as forcibly here, it's entirely plausible he just saw her as another "talking head" for the unhockey "left wing", like I did at first. InedibleHulk (talk) 09:06, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

"Unhockey" - is that Canadian for people who still have their teeth? Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 17:05, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Maybe this is a case of "separated only by a common language", i.e. BE persistent, annoying vs. AE shrill & insistent. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 17:41, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Canadian English is neither American, British nor as common. InedibleHulk (talk) 08:59, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

@Hyperbolick: Ben Garrison cartoon? No thanks, not on my talk page. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 16:48, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

if you’d like, I can find another cartoon by another artist for the same sentiment, it’s not an uncommon observation. Hyperbolick (talk) 00:19, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Don't know why anybody's is defining the word "yappy", as being some kinda slur towards females. Any human being can be yappy. But that's not the issue I have with Trump's talkpage. GoodDay (talk) 17:58, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Hey, I see you were adding a bunch of citations for a section on Turning Point USA, "false claims about Covid 19", that information was pertaining strictly to Turning Point Action which is a different non-profit organization than Turning Point USA. By law they are actually different types of non-profits. It can be a bit confusing, however Turning Point Action has its own page now. I am going to just paste that information from Turing Point USA onto the TP-Action page. Just wanted to give you a heads up if you see any other content that is being wrongly classified on Turning Point USA's page about Turning point Action. MaximusEditor (talk) 23:34, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

MaximusEditor, I'm aware of the difference between 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofits and also that Turning Point Action has its own page. Another editor has already reverted your removal of the info from Turning Point USA, correctly so, IMO. Sources in general do not strictly distinguish between TPUSA and TP Action—same leadership, same personnel. Vanity Fair, one of the three sources for the false claims about the vaccines, doesn't mention TP Action at all. Politico says that Kirk "Charlie Kirk, the pro-Trump co-founder of the conservative student organization Turning Point USA, said on Fox last week that he was embarking on a 'massive public relations campaign' around vaccination efforts" and then goes on to say in the next paragraph (emphasis added by me) that "Turning Point Action, a 501 c(4) affiliated with TPUSA, has also sent out SMS messages urging people to sign petitions on the topic." And the Washington Post speaks about "communications by Turning Point USA and its affiliate, Turning Point Action". (I still don't think a separate page for Turning Point Action is necessary or a good idea, for the same reason RS usually say TPUSA or "TPUSA and affiliates". Same leadership, same personnel, and from what I've seen leadership and personnel don't always keep the business strictly separate. Montgomery and Kirk set up TP Action at the same time as TPUSA (2012),^[1] and it was flying under the radar until 2019 when CNBC investigated their fundraising ads attacking a politician (Ilhan Omar).) Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 10:39, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi, I saw you removed my citation of The Daily with an edit summary of "A podcast as a source?" I will note that {{Cite podcast}} has 2,907 transclusions at present, including to medical articles like vasectomy which are supposed to have some of the best sourcing in Wikipedia. So the mere fact that it is a podcast does not make it unreliable per se. Just like any form of media (whether audio visual or print) it is the source itself that is either reliable or unreliable, not the format.

Regarding this specific podcast, it is produced by The New York Times, and I would argue is as reliable as any of their journalism (Green on WP:RSP). Admittedly, its content would largely fall in the opinion/analysis realm, which can be biased. In this particular episode Michael Babaro interviews Shane Goldmacher, who wrote one of the other articles I cited in that paragraph, about the other article. So it's not that important to cite the podcast as everything is supported by the other article too, but in the spirit of WP:SWYGT I was citing both. Besides, some things are easier to understand in the audio medium, while others are easier in the written medium.

I'm not going to make a huge deal about insisting on citing this particular podcast in this particular article when the other sources cited support all the content without it. But I wanted to say, "yes, a podcast as a source, what's wrong with that?" and give my analysis that this specific podcast should be treated like other content produced by the New York Times. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 16:33, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

ONUnicorn, Wikipedia:Citing_sources mentions sound recordings but that seems to refer to music. I think it's a bit much to ask readers to sit through a half-hour or so of a recording to find the source for a statement. There's also the problem that people may unintentionally say something in a way that can be misconstrued. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 17:45, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

The citation template does have a parameter for the specific time code you are citing. I would liken that to citing a particular page in a book. If one cites a particular timestamp they wouldn't have to listen to the whole 30 minutes, just like if you cite a particular page they don't have to read the entire book. Wikipedia:Citing_sources does mention that for both sound and video recordings one should include "approximate time at which event or point of interest occurs, where appropriate". ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 18:26, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

SPECIFICO, don't you think that you may have overreacted a bit? I agree with Valjean about the civility issue, and Mhawk, who's not used to the flaring tempers on Donald Trump, sounds reasonable enough. So maybe talk it out? The contentious parts of the close have been fixed (here and here). Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 12:23, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Well, I made a foolish mistake calling it "meatpuppeting" when I should have said (1) baselessly supporting language under contention re: "Trump's doubts" and the close not giving, due weight to the arguments you and others made concerning how sources described the matter. The impression that the closer was unduly following the wishes of OP was furthered by (2) closer's addition, at OP's request, of a redundant "consensus 58" to the list when no new consensus had been reached, and further by OP's addition of exactly the same RfC-rejected language to the article post-close. But you already knew all that. I have since reviewed the page on Meatpuppeting, and the definition clearly does not apply, because it refers to new editors showing up to support a POV, not an existing account.

wrt to civility, Valjean has made great strides in controlling his demeanor, and he is a friend and beacon to us all as a content editor and a role model of dedicated collaboration.👼. Thanks for the note. SPECIFICO talk 14:38, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

SPECIFICO, I got all that, I meant talk to Mhawk. I doubt they're reading my talk page. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 15:32, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi posted at the AE for them, which I hope settles their claim. SPECIFICO talk 16:30, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Consensus item 58 has multiple errors, which I can't fix as unregistered. Cosmetically, the period following "58" is missing. More seriously, both links are broken. The first has an extraneous "|" at the end, the second needs retargeting to the archive page. Can you handle this? 68.97.42.64 (talk) 02:51, 1 July 2022 (UTC) On second look, both links need to be converted from external link to wikilink. 68.97.42.64 (talk) 02:57, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, my mistake! Converted both to wikilinks and retargeted the second one to the archive page. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 17:46, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald_Trump&diff=prev&oldid=1097270656

My apologies, I thought he had revered you, and you were revering him back You clearly did not violate 24hr BRD. Fbifriday (talk) 19:08, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Fbifriday, no problem, for some reason the Donald Trump page has entered into another very active phase that makes it sometimes hard to keep track of the revision history. Thanks for self-reverting. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 15:21, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

It seems to have gotten tense regarding the current views on the subject given the hearings. Emotional editing, while understandable on both sides of the argument, is hurting the discussion on the talk.

And absolutely, if I mess up, I'll fix it. Thanks for the understanding. Fbifriday (talk) 15:28, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

I don't think that needs to be quoted, especially since the person/entity making the quote is not named. It'd be like writing Donald Trump was "President of the United States". 331dot (talk) 13:31, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

331dot, I responded in the article. It's a double quote, me quoting NBC quoting the Secret Service. I reverted but I don't have any strong feelings about it if you want to remove the quotes. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 13:34, 9 August 2022 (UTC),

Let me just clarify, I'm not here to yell at you or anything, I just figured it would be better to settle this with you on your page instead of engaging in an edit war over something relatively small. Honestly though, I'm not sure I can agree with you on Cuomo's comments being relatively insignificant in this case. Yes he is not a sitting member of his party, but he's also much higher profile as a public figure than most other of the individuals listed in reactions already and was very recently running one of the country's largest states. Is his reaction really less significant than those made by commentators, or some of the Republicans that are also no longer office holders listed? For example, is him not being an active member of the party make his comments more important than those made by Sabatini, Oz, Taub, etc? I would tend to believe these comments have had much less impact on the public discourse in regards to the raid than Cuomo's have. DarkSide830 (talk) 17:24, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

DarkSide830, I think you looked at the wrong item in the edit history. I didn't comment on or delete Cuomo's mention although I don't disagree with the editor who did. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 17:36, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

The 17:01 UTC edit from today. You said "He may be a member but he doesn't hold any public office or party position. He tweets as a member of the general public, not really WP noteworthy". DarkSide830 (talk) 17:47, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

DarkSide830, yeah, sorry, you're right. My mind was still on the Yang comment I posted on the FBI search talk page. I reverted your revert of this edit with pretty much the same summary as Barrelproof. Let's continue the discussion on the FBI search talk page. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 18:42, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

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Why are you changing CNN.com URLs to edition.CNN.com URLs at Donald Trump, please? Bsherr (talk) 18:52, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Because the "www" urls redirect to "edition", except for a couple of more recent ones that resulted in error messages and still seem to require /index.html . Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 18:55, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

They're not redirects, they're subdomain mirrors. edition.cnn.com and us.cnn.com are mirrors of www.cnn.com, and with the rare exception of a very old page, we should use www, which is the top-level url. Isn't that correct? --Bsherr (talk) 18:59, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Where does the MOS say that? I use whatever is in the address bar. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 19:37, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

And why are you adding back index.html? --Bsherr (talk) 19:04, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Because of this: [] -> Cannot GET /2020/05/14/politics/appeals-court-emoluments-trump-hotel/. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 19:33, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

What are you showing me? --Bsherr (talk) 19:39, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

The error message I get when I click the link. What do you see? Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 19:49, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

I see the web page, rendered identically. What browser are you using? --Bsherr (talk) 19:50, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Seems to be browser-related. I get the error msg with Firefox and Safari, the web page with Chrome. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 19:58, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Hmm. I just tried it with Safari on my mobile phone and couldn't reproduce the error. What versions of each browser are you using, and what's your operating system? --Bsherr (talk) 20:09, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

I always keep my browsers and macOS current. You didn’t answer my question where the MOS (or other WP guidelines) say that we should use www, which is the top-level url. For example, you changed the url with index to the url www, and both end up at the edition url with index. In this case, the www url is 14 characters shorter, so that’s a plus. I just tried the two www urls again that resulted in the error msg yesterday and got the edition.cnn web page on Firefox and Safari, same browser and OS versions. Whatever caused that glitch yesterday seems to have fixed itself, and, no, there were no automatic overnight updates. I unplug everything when I'm not using the equipment. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 10:05, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

See MOS:URL. When you say that you "end up at" the edition, page, you are saying that the www page redirects you to the edition page, so that the edition address appears in your address bar? --Bsherr (talk) 21:06, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

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It looks like part of your comment belongs in another section. Bob K31416 (talk) 16:10, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

I don't think so, and why mention this on my personal Talk page instead of the Donald Trump talk page? Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 16:14, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Congrats on successfully testing leadrefs at Donald Trump. So far they're working and accepted. Now about the invisible anchors under each section header.... See my essay for how they work. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 22:46, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Valjean, I looked for the invisible anchors but didn't see them. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 16:31, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Under each heading in the essay is this hidden editorial note: <!-- If you change this heading, remember to also change the lead "section reference". -->. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 16:37, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Valjean, so it's just a hidden message/reminder that the person amending the lead (or in this case me adding the section references to the lead) needs to add to any target section heading. What about a hidden reminder above the lead, "If you add, amend, or remove a sentence with a section link, remember to also remove or add the hidden reminder underneath the section heading", or s.th. along those lines? That's a lot of reminders all over the place — you think that'll be accepted? Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 16:58, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Fortunately the note is hidden, so no problem. Until this practice becomes default MOS, editors will need that instruction. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 17:36, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Hidden message following each targeted section heading so far: mission accomplished. That added many bytes to the size. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 17:38, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

		The Content Creativity Barnstar
		For advancing the state of the art. Andre🚐 01:57, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for implementing this idea in such a daring fashion. I find it amazing that no one tried to revert and interfere, but you did have a group backing you. Good job! -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 02:11, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, Andrevan and SPECIFICO, but the brilliant heads were Valjean and the editor FKA Mandruss. I only take credit for chutzpah to implement in Donald Trump, no less, and tweaking the details. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 16:38, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

It Takes a Village, in this case a village with a population of 4 or 5.

I started to solicit input from editor Sdkb, who used to participate at Trump and was interested in topics of article structure. I decided not to rock the boat at this early stage.

Small tweak needed. The leadref following "campaigns and presidency" needs to follow the comma.

Also suggest you go ahead with a leadref following "but lost the popular vote", since this has been a point of contention. The body section is "Election to the presidency". Whether to precede or follow the footnote is your call. (FKA 68.97.42.64, FKA Mandruss) 161.97.225.237 (talk) 02:45, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

It was Sdkb who pointed out the RfC about self-linking to me in a previous discussion, archived (here, archive 144). Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 14:37, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

See Talk:Donald Trump#Squigglies, throughout the page. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 02:32, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Valjean, I was thinking about throwing a conniption fit, but push-back is not unexpected. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 11:26, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

It seems to me that the effect of multi-citation lead text is equivalent to that of scare quotes. The presence of multiple citations for a straightforward assertion or a single word casts doubt on the lead text. This is why the section pointers need to be promoted as best practice. The emergent squiggly denialism appears to confirm that. Maybe find a cuter symbol than the weird vertical squiggly? SPECIFICO talk 15:06, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

I'm fairly certain the objections to the appearance of the vertical squiggly are just the usual resistance to change (which is often unconscious). If somebody proposed the format ^[n] for citation numbers as a new thing, these same people would say it looks terrible, it's visually distracting, etc. They lack the wisdom to know that every new visual thing looks weird at first and far less weird (or actually good) once you're accustomed to it. So I wouldn't waste my time looking for a cuter symbol. (FKA 68.97.42.64, FKA Mandruss) 161.97.225.237 (talk) 19:08, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

That's so true. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 19:15, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Squiggly will prevail. SPECIFICO talk 20:53, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

I like it, but what would a tiny down arrow or ° look like? -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 21:19, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

ꜜ Andre🚐 21:37, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

or 🢓 Andre🚐 21:38, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Or a little + or better yet, ♂ SPECIFICO talk 22:05, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

test^🔗 Andre🚐 22:06, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Sorry to spoil the fun. I guess I’m one of the wisdom lacking editors who thinks this needs a larger discussion and consensus. Nice to see you again Mandruss. This is a major style change with Wiki wide implications. Let’s put it at a MOS page and work out the details. Mr Ernie (talk) 00:16, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

We will get there, and likely soon. We're just not ready as this is still in a testing and developmental stage, even though it already works. It can be better. Constructive ideas for improvement are welcome. See the tests below. I like the little arrow, as it's not confusing and is instructional. It literally tells the reader to "go down there".

Right now we've started to call these internal lead "section links". They are more discrete than normal numbered references and connect specific content in the lead with the exact content and references in the body from which the lead content is derived. An additional function was discovered and implemented along the way, and that is to use them to largely eliminate blue wikilinks from the lead as they take readers away from the article. That's unfortunate. This system highlights the hierarchy of importance, in that the lead is totally subservient to the body and its references. Readers should be directed there before seeking information elsewhere. The result, by contrast to many leads, is a visually clean lead that is super functional by highlighting/pointing to the body and its references. Like all things new, it takes a bit to get used to the idea, but, once one understands, the advantages become obvious and the discrete symbols fade away into the background. I don't even notice them. If we can get used to numbered references, and we do, then we can get used to these as they are much more discrete. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 00:44, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

@Mr Ernie: No, I was referring to the editors who have objected partly or in total because the "sguiggly" itself looks terrible in their opinion. I've reviewed your comments in both places and you are not one of them. (FKA 68.97.42.64, FKA Mandruss) 161.97.225.237 (talk) 15:27, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Testing

• politician,^§
• politician,^°
• politician,^ꜜ
• politician,^🢓
• politician,_ꜜ (The arrow is lower. I like this one as it's not confusing and is instructional. It literally tells the reader to "go down there".)

Which one is the least discrete and functional? -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 22:03, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

A simple target symbol like two concentric rings and a center dot would be great since our symbols link to specific targets in the body but WP doesn’t have one, AFAIK. The section symbol/silcrow seems the best choice to me and, if and when added to the MOS as an option, shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. But shouldn’t we be discussing this on the DT talk page, with the view of taking this WP wide in the future? Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 09:33, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

• How about the ⇣ or ◎ or ▿ or ◉ Andre🚐 21:04, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Arrow! -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 22:00, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Comparing: lost the popular vote.^§ lost the popular vote.^§ lost the popular vote.^§ lost the popular vote.^⇣ lost the popular vote.^⇣ lost the popular vote.^⇣ lost the popular vote.^◎ lost the popular vote.^◎ lost the popular vote.^◎ lost the popular vote.^◉ lost the popular vote.^◉ lost the popular vote.^◉

Andrevan, Valjean, the two concentric circles in superscript look a lot like the copyright logo, and the dot-in-circle is too obtrusive. The section sign and the arrow look like good candidates to me; of course, I know their purpose. So, how do we proceed from here? Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 16:36, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Forgot the arrowhead: lost the popular vote.^▿ lost the popular vote.^▿ lost the popular vote.^▿ A bit too small? Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 16:38, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Updated User:Andrevan/Leadref Demo Andre🚐 16:40, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Because a major objection was the noticeability/size of the squiggly, I favor the arrow for its unobtrusive size and inherent instructiveness. Unlike some of the others, which have established symbolic values, and thus can be confusing, it serves the purpose well, with no risk of confusion. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 17:08, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Andrevan, I think we may have been talking at cross purposes. These are leadrefs linking to individual citation refnames in the body, right? {{User:Andrevan/Leadref|Soccer|1}}, {{User:Andrevan/Numbered Leadref|2}}, {{User:Andrevan/Leadref|Soccer|1}} {{User:Andrevan/Leadref|Izzard|3}}, {{User:Andrevan/Sectionref|Bacon_Fried_Artisanal_Snack_Chips|4}} Probably Valjean's original essay intention? I thought we had moved on to linking to the headings of the pertinent body sections. We'd still have (a bunch of) citations in the lead, whether they look like ^⇣1 or ^[1], and we'd still have the Wikilinks to other Wikipedia articles. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 17:14, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Those are two very different ideas. My idea was to get rid of all citations in the lead and instead point to the relevant section headings. These ideas should be in different threads. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 17:21, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, those are to show all the possible ways to do it, but feel free to edit or change. The templates called Simple Leadref and Sectionref are basically what we're talking about now. The numbered ones are slightly different. Andre🚐 18:01, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

In an RFC, you'll also need to make the argument for in-page section linking. Along with what type of symbols you want to introduce. GoodDay (talk) 02:24, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

The editor who mounts an RfC will be the one who frames the question, maybe as you wish, maybe not. Comment as you wish on the footnote replacement theory at that time. SPECIFICO talk 12:02, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

I was posting to Space4Times3Continuum, as this is their talkpage. GoodDay (talk) 20:09, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Indeed. And I was sharing my thoughts, as I saw your post.👧🏼 SPECIFICO talk 20:47, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Please enable your email. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 14:58, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

I'm thinking about it. Having seen quite a few complaints on WP about editors getting "hounded" I'm not sure that I want to leave complete anonymity, even for an alias I don't use anywhere else. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 09:37, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

About : the Visual Editor does that without asking. There was no devious plan to sneak spaces in without anyone noticing. Best, DFlhb (talk) 08:20, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

@DFlhb: Ah, WP becoming more "convenient" like Word by automatically doing stuff you may or may not want it to do. I didn't know that, haven't used the Visual Editor. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 19:49, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Indeed; I've since switched to the source editor, and it's quite nice DFlhb (talk) 17:58, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

This article may already need assistance from other editors, as you will see from the recent activities. --86Sedan 01:36, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

I was never more than 99% retired. I consider my recent activity at Trump an anomaly or aberration. I may decide to dive back in if he gets re-elected. Or I may not.

Number 34 reached the consensus it did without your additional information. I suspect it would survive a challenge that she is Czech.

I suppose you could make the challenge and then counter yourself with the additional information, pinging the participants in the original discussion. Upon affirmation of 34, you could then add it to the entry. But that would look really weird and you'd have alotta splainin to do. I wouldn't do it.

I didn't get your reference to JFG. ―Mandruss ☎ 20:41, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Mandruss, just kidding about JFG. This is what I was referring to: Talk:Donald_Trump/Archive_94#Ivana_Trump’s_nationality: Her article states that her father was Czech and her mother was Austrian; there is nothing Slovak in her lineage. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 11:15, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

I haven't forgotten the reasons why I 99%-quit, which had nothing specifically to do with Trump. They don't come into play when I participate only lightly and stop trying to improve the editing processes and culture against stubborn, closed-minded, often illogical resistance to change. I feel less stressed and more happy now, and I'm now putting my own well-being first. I've kicked the drug and attend Wikipediaholics Anonymous meetings faithfully. Hoping I don't relapse. ―Mandruss ☎ 03:22, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Yes, but your process interventions are what would be most useful right now. Process in general has gone downhill, not just on the Trump page. Everything goes to a poll. Uninformed editors make OR selections as to what's noteworhty content. Nobody's read tertiary sources. Mainstream anaylsis is deprecated as "opinion". Closeted Fox News fans google to cherrypick a source or two that will support UNDUE content. You'll have your work cut out for you keeping your blood pressure down if you have a look at the broadening range of politicised articles and talk pages. SPECIFICO talk 13:31, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Exactly. What's needed is systemic change. Designing and implementing such change is akin to what I did for 30 years in my career, and I was good at it and had a proven track record of successes. It's in my blood, and preventing me from doing it is like asking a coyote not to hunt ground rodents. I can't fix people, but I can fix systems. ―Mandruss ☎ 15:52, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Wanna see systemic failure? Look at the current AE thread where one of our best editors is about to get a draconian sanction for getting impatient with a bit of nonsense on a Politics page. SPECIFICO talk 17:52, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Even if your viewpoint is correct, that's a problem with people, not systems. I just said we can't fix people.

The kind of change I'm talking about is retiring "preventative not punitive", which encourages editors to be good until the ANI/AE complaint is closed. If I knowingly commit a crime, I won't expect to get off because I promise not to do it again. Imagine what the world would be like if I could. Punitive is preventative by virtue of its deterrent value.

Another sorely needed change: A dedicated "law enforcement" group, replacing editors' need to police the very people they need to be collaborating with. When I see a significant violation, I should be able to file a simple complaint, anonymously to all but "law enforcement", and move on. "Law enforcement" should take it from there, building the case and presenting it at ANI or AE. No more animosity between me and the person I reported, since he doesn't know who reported him. Any resentment on his part is between him and LE, just like in the real world, and there will always be people who blame LE for their problems, just like in the real world. No more need for editors to figure out how to navigate the complex bureaucracies at ANI and especially AE. Editors now almost completely focused on editing, having been freed from 95% of the policing responsibility. If I file too many spurious or frivolous complaints, I get a sanction, and without a long, drawn-out "trial". ―Mandruss ☎ 19:39, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Yes. There were a few of us who commented to similar effect in the long Arbcom rewrite of DS. The outcome was disappointing. The AE board is a place where a few knowledgeable Admins occasionaly do good work but also where many others, without a good grasp of editing and talk page dynamics, sit back and wait for cases to be served to them on a plate. As if they were being shown a neutral sample of the problems on article pages. Very few of our best editors devote their time and attention to compiling drama board complaints. It's a waste of effort with results often uncorrelated with the evidence and context. SPECIFICO talk 20:35, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello! I just wanted to say that, the more I've thought about it, the more I've thought your battery & defamation suggestion was a really good attempt at a compromise. I still wouldn't support it as my first choice, but I wanted to commend you for trying to find a compromise version! As I said on the page, I expect we're headed to an RFC (we'll see!) but either way if you're around I'm looking forward to working with you more.--Jerome Frank Disciple 13:58, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

SPECIFICO, sorry I missed the boat but, looking at the numbers, my vote wouldn’t have mattered. Went to the page yesterday to add my two cents worth, only to find what looked like an RfC closing. Don’t admins usually vote on these things? First time I’ve seen one end like this. One day down, 29 to go, right? Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 09:47, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

I was surprised at the timing of that. I asked SFR about it on my talk page. I linked to your article-talk compilation narrative of the events within the ANI. Gotta say, casting me as soft on fringe is remarkable. I don't think they parsed the difference between fringe content and WP:FRINGE, which is mostly about page forks and UNDUE false equivalences. Also not clear what fringe has to do w. civility, etc. SPECIFICO talk 15:00, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Space4Time3Continuum2x. Can you please point to the "several" discussions of SCOTUS names inclusion in Donald Trump lead? I could only find two, one from 2018 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Donald_Trump/Archive_84#Gorsuch_appointment_in_the_lead), which is outdated, and the other one from 2021 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Donald_Trump/Archive_137#Language_to_describe_judiial_appointments) where the consensus, if we actually take into consideration the arguments rather than the votes, leaned toward inclusion based on precedent and provided sources (courtesy ping @Starship.paint @Neutrality @MelanieN)

Are there more discussions that I may have missed? It seems that, more than anything, you reverted my original inclusion of SCOTUS names based on your own preference. You are correct in that I should have technically sought consensus on talk page, but my last edit was over two weeks ago and I thought this was constructive enough of an edit where a detailed edit summary would suffice.

More importantly, and given that you had a clear preference for not including the names in the lead and that you had reverted my earlier edit, I don't think you should be claiming WP:BRDR violation in this case. In other words, it seems to me you used the rule to remove something you simply did not like, rather than following WP:AGF which is encouraged in WP:BRDR (People feel more cooperative if you let them know that you're willing to listen to their case for the change. Otherwise, a revert can seem brusque.); you could have easily taken it to the talk page itself, which you never did. Thanks, Ppt91^talk 18:40, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

@Ppt91: I assumed good faith, didn’t know whether you had noticed my first revert, remembered an edit you made three weeks earlier, or were aware of the active arbitration remedies applicable to the page. Since someone has begun a new discussion about the addition of the three Justices' names to the lead of Donald Trump on that talk page, I'll respond there. Pinging Starship.paint, per their request. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 15:36, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

• Ping me when you answer, Space. Thanks. starship.paint (exalt) 03:54, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

To whom it may concern. The recent attempt to impersonate me was unsuccessful. As for the current attacks , , , by various IP addresses, listen very carefully, I shall say zis only once: I won’t respond to general allegations of violations of WP rules, and I’ll delete any such allegations from my talk page. Specify the edit(s) and the rule(s), and I’ll take a look at my alleged misbehavior and rectify it, if necessary. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 14:06, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Good day @Space4Time3Continuum2x i would like to seek your assistance on the review and approval of Qing Madi page. Thank You.

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Trimming articles can get tiring, thanks for making Donald J. Trump more readable! - AquilaFasciata (talk | contribs) 14:04, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

AquilaFasciata, a belated thank you. Don't know what I'd do without coffee. Space4Time3Continuum2x ^(cowabunga) 17:34, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

		The Donald Trump Barnstar
		For all of your hard work maintaining a busy challenging article in Donald Trump; I have noticed your efforts. Best, 2601:204:C901:B740:40DB:1A86:8B23:E4D0 (talk) 19:53, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Uh, thanks? Space4Time3Continuum2x ^(cowabunga) 11:41, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

That IP was runner up on the Apprentice episode where they all had to go out and sell red caps at the skating rink and report back to Headquarters. SPECIFICO talk 18:31, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

I probably should have gone with my initial gut reaction and deleted. The IP address has an impressive block log, from 3 months to 2 years in three easy steps, and I can't even tell why from reading random edits. Space4Time3Continuum2x ^(cowabunga) 10:48, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

Yes, WP:NFC#UUI #6 most emphatically does apply. We've done this innumerable times on this project where an iconic image gets used all over the project, it gets removed from all but the main article where the image is the focus of the article, people fight to get it used elsewhere, and it ends up not being used elsewhere after much debate. Please, let's not restart this again. If you wish to overturn/change WP:NFC#UUI #6, I invite you to discuss the issue at WT:NFC. In the meantime, please do not restore the image outside of Mug shot of Donald Trump. Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 20:27, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

I agree completely with Hammersoft. Cullen328 (talk) 22:46, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

Re:

If I still cared, I'd have to disagree.

Cite web: "This Citation Style 1 template is used to create citations for web sources that are not characterized by another CS1 template."

Another CS1 template:

Cite news: "This Citation Style 1 template is used to create citations for news articles in print, video, audio or web."

Seems clear enough to my eyes. ―Mandruss ☎ 12:41, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for not caring on my Talk page! I'm pleading conniptions after being manually reverted by a friend of bitching betty's, and confusion caused by cryptic and contradictory WP guidelines. (I'm hardly the only editor with the problem. I've seen the "newspaper" parameter used for CNN and U.S. Senate publications, among others, on other WP pages, and the bots don't catch those.) The bots don't seem to care that every example of the most commonly used parameters on "Template:Cite_news" uses "work". The WP how-to-guide says:

Choosing between Template:cite web and Template:cite news

Before 2014, editors had to decide whether to use {{cite web}} or {{cite news}} based on their features. In 2014, most of the differences between the two templates were eliminated. As of 29 July 2016, {{cite web}} or {{cite news}} have the following differences:

• {{cite news}} can be used for offline (paper) sources whereas {{cite web}} generates a missing URL error when no URL is provided.
  

I can't remember the last time I've seen an article from the print version of a newspaper or news magazine cited as the source of content, and the output of cite news and cite web with url is exactly the same, so what's the point in making the distinction? I'm pretty sure you've voiced the same sentiment in the past. Space4Time3Continuum2x ^(cowabunga) 14:13, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

I've opposed the aliases of |work=. Don't recall saying the news/web distinction is unimportant. I wouldn't necessarily disagree that it's unimportant, but that's not sufficient reason to change from news to web. Particularly when the template docs read as they do. But I don't care. If it's important to you, I'm prepared to drop it. ―Mandruss ☎ 15:31, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

The MOS should be fixed first. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 16:43, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

That'll be the day! I went to the bot talk page and was told that specifying "newspaper" is important because it is more specific. Space4Time3Continuum2x ^(cowabunga) 15:04, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

By one editor, IIRC. That's why I recommended taking it to Village Pump, preferably in an RfC. In my view, using the bottom-up model – fighting such battles at article level – is an exercise in futility and a source of endless frustration. ―Mandruss ☎ 02:34, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. The straw that broke the camel's back — 600 bytes here, 400 bytes there, category enthusiasts adding categories such as [[Category:Living people]] (Possibly living people, missing people, and dead people are not included here). We'll see how the wiki-lawyers feel about it. Space4Time3Continuum2x ^(cowabunga) 15:04, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

RE: attorney] - the lead lender represented the consortium in the negotiations. There were not 16 lawfirms at the negotiations. I think the prior text better represented the statement about the consortium's action and motivation. They were not splintered. The full NYT quote shows Pomerantz speaking for the group:

The banks could have easily toppled Mr. Trump into personal bankruptcy, “but we all agreed that he’d be better alive than dead,” said Alan Pomerantz, then head of the real estate department at Weil. “We needed him to help sell all of his assets, and the deal was that as he sold off more, we’d reduce his personal guarantee.”

Could you elaborate on your reason for removing the LA Times ref? Wallach was Trump's operative trying desperately to spin the news media and finagle some ongoing role for Trump with the new owners, who understood that he had run the place into the ground. SPECIFICO talk 13:47, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

(Shouldn't we be discussing this on the Trump talk page?) The NYT interviewed Pomerantz in 2016 about the 1995 negotiations with Trump. The article says that they took place in the law offices of the law firm representing Citibank and that Pomerantz was the head of their real estate department. It doesn't say what role he had in the negotiations. I don't see that the page needs the LA Times article. The NYT articles have more in-depth information on the 1995 deal. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 20:39, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

I didn't think it was worth the typical overblown discussions on article talk. It's not important either way. I do think the LA Times adds context to Trump's situation and how he was regarded and treated, but either way is OK with me. SPECIFICO talk 21:31, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi Space4Time3Continuum2x. You added a reference befor "Williams 2004" to Clarence Thomas, but no such work is defined in the article. Could you add the required cite to the Bibliography section, or let me know what work this refers to? -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 12:15, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi, ActivelyDisinterested, it's the last item in the bibliography (Juan Williams, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary). I don't know what I did wrong. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 12:22, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Sorry I missed that, or I would have made the correction. The issue stems from the date, you added Williams 2004, and the cite is for Williams 1998. The reference and the cite have to match exactly, otherwise they cause a "no target error". I've fixed the issue with this edit. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 12:29, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, ActivelyDisinterested. I copied the template and changed the parameters except for the year. It's always the little things. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 12:32, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

There are error messages for this type of ref, but they're off by default. Category:Harv and Sfn template errors explains how to turn them on if you want them. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 12:37, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Yikes. I think I'd rather depend on the kindness of editors such as you to point out the errors of my ways. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 12:47, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks, Mandruss, I appreciate it. I quote you at every opportunity I get. I'm staying the course, fearless to the end, and channeling Bush, apparently. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 20:01, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

I'm staying the course, fearless to the end Yeah, so where you at?? We need you now more than ever. ―Mandruss ☎ 00:12, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

@Mandruss: Don't worry, just affixing the bayonet before continuing up Missionary Ridge. My last edit on Nov 6 (NOTNEWS) survived for a full 41 minutes, and how do you handle dozens of new editors ignoring 24-hr BRD and consensus violations? Some 600 edits later, it will take me a while to compare the last stable version with the current free-for-all. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 17:18, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Well done, Mandruss. And while you're on the star button - give yourself one too, for longtime honorable service. SPECIFICO talk 20:24, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

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Iskandar323, thanks, but unnecessary. I read the active arbitration remedies warning on the Talk page. Space4Time3Continuum2x (cowabunga) 13:50, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

So anyway. I understand there's a widely-accepted principle (paradigm?) that consensus can be established by a sequence of article reverts, with no "discussion" beyond edit summaries. I think that's supported somewhere in the PAGs, probably at WP:CONSENSUS. There's another widely-accepted principle (paradigm?) about de facto consensus and status quo ante, which is also probably supported somewhere in the PAGs. And yet another that contested edits should be removed pending consensus.

The first principle appears to be rooted in a desire to save time and reduce bureaucracy, nothing else.

I don't like the first one, and I wasn't comfortable with your Oct 12 re-revert after I became aware of it on the 22nd (I wasn't paying that much attention at first). After DeathTrain's challenge, I think the article should have been left alone pending talk page consensus to change it. Even if the challenge made no sense to you. Your editsum, "Because?", implied that DeathTrain needed to expound on their NPOV objection in their editsum, which seems entirely impractical to me. At that point, the only way DeathTrain could answer your question was by re-re-reverting with another editsum. And this could have gone on for another dozen or so reverts, potentially with other editors jumping into the consensus-by-reversion fray. Make that make sense. The "discussion" in the editsums doesn't keep it from looking a lot like edit warring. It wasn't DT's responsibility to start a TP discussion to answer your question; SPECIFICO was the one who made the initial change and it was SPECIFICO's responsibility to defend it.

After ten years, I still fail to see how the different principles can coexist, and that kind of thing (colliding widely-accepted principles) seems to happen a lot at en-wiki. How do you resolve this? ―Mandruss ☎ 04:09, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

(I started hyperventilating when I saw six alerts at the top of the page, wondering which particular mob I had offended. False alarm, fortunately.)

By taking a deep breath and looking at the Talk page before editing? Three edits by three different editors aren't an edit war. I shouldn't have reverted DeathTrain's challenge of the newly added clause (I didn't remember the discussion on my talk page until you mentioned NeilN). Instead, I should have asked them on the talk page what was POV about the added text. Specifico isn't to blame here at all, she started a discussion on the talk page 20 minutes after DeathTrain's revert. I noticed the discussion half an hour after my revert, so my bad again that I didn't self-revert at that time.

I still do think that editors shouldn't just cite POV, NPOV, etc. in the edit summary without adding the specific reason(s), either there or on the talk page. Turns out the objection was undue weight and a disproportionate aspect for the lead section. That's a basis for discussion. Space4Time3Continuum2x (cowabunga) 18:10, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed this edit of yours, and did not quite understand what "Consensus #60" refers to. Is there a list of consensuses relating to that article somewhere, or did you perhaps mean "consensus on talk archive #60", or something like that? - Ljleppan (talk) 06:34, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Ljleppan, Talk:Donald Trump/Current consensus #60. Queen of Hearts ❤️ (no relation) 06:38, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll note (heh) the note at the top of that section asking for any references to it to be wikilinked: I, for one, was looking for that content (or a link to it) from the banner section which includes e.g. the FAQ. (I'll also note that I also fail to see what about those links was MOS:EGG'y, but that's neither here nor there). Ljleppan (talk) 07:43, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

@Ljleppan: Sorry, I forgot that not every editor of the page will be familiar with the "Current consensus" list at the top of the Talk page. You're right, there's no MOS:EGG. I meant MOS:SEAOFBLUE-ish because there would be four links in a row just separated by commas and one "and". Space4Time3Continuum2x (cowabunga) 11:04, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Do you know of any way, maybe a skin or script, to create a link on each talk page (or article) section heading line that can be clicked to take one back to the top of the page? Some websites provide such links. It would be nice here. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 01:41, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Done. Take a look at my talk page. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 05:32, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

@Valjean: 👍 — another feature of WP I wasn't aware of. 🖖 Space4Time3Continuum2x (cowabunga) 13:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Why did you conclude that "repp" should be spelled with a single p? {https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weaving&diff=1194337094&oldid=1194324386 edit]

I just happened to look at the 1970 version of Collier and she spelled it with two. S Philbrick(Talk) 20:01, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick: I went with the first mention in Weaving and various online mentions (, , etc. 1970 was the first edition of the book (where did you find it?). Does the book contain WP's exact text passage? The citation says it's on p. 114 of the second edition but, considering the subject matter, there probably weren't a lot of changes from one edition to the next. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 20:59, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

In a meeting will respond soon. S Philbrick(Talk) 21:28, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

I'm trying to research the history of the quote in the Wikipedia article to figure out whether it's an acceptable paraphrase or plagiarism or something else. It's been referenced to a particular page (114) in a particular book. I thought I successfully tracked down a copy of the book at a nearby university, but when I visited the University today, they had the 1970 edition not the 1974 second edition. I didn't find what I was looking for and I'm separately asking my town librarian to see if she can track down a copy of the 1974 edition.However, the 1970 version did use "repp".

I see other sources such as the one you supplied we have a single p, but I see that Merriam-Webster uses two.

Merriam Webster

Barring the extremely unlikely possibility that Collier used repp in her 1970 book and changed it in 1974 I'd say it is a virtual certainty that the spelling used by her has the doubled letter.

It appears that both spellings are acceptable, but given that the word is associated with a specific book we should use that version. As I mentioned I'm still trying to track down the 1974 version which will take some time, and if by some miracle the spelling is changed I will report the change. S Philbrick(Talk) 22:37, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

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Fixed it. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 18:36, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

and "Ronald McDonald's signature would have had the same effect" had me laugh so loud I scared the cat. Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 05:48, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Glad to hear that my remark brought a little joy into your day, and my apologies to your kitty. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 14:10, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

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No notification was sent because no new signature was added in the same edit. But it makes it look like a notification was sent, which can cause problems in some situations. An unfortunate fact of life that apparently can't be fixed by the developers. ―Mandruss ☎ 20:36, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

@Mandruss: Thanks, didn't know that, will redo. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 20:44, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Re: Lol. You still didn't add a ping and a signature in the same edit. No notification has been sent. ―Mandruss ☎ 20:52, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

I misunderstood. I'll remove the entire post and start over. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 20:54, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

We also see cases where a ping and a signature were added in the same edit, but the coding of the ping was botched. Editors think they can fix that by correcting the coding, but they can't. Like I said, unfortunate. ―Mandruss ☎ 20:57, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

The complete "rule" is: If a correctly coded ping and a valid signature are added in the same edit, and the target is a registered username (doesn't work for IPs), a notification will be sent. Otherwise, not. ―Mandruss ☎ 21:09, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 13:03, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Planetary alignment is not required. ―Mandruss ☎ 19:38, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi! I am unable to add this information to the talk page of Donald Trump myself but I can see you are an active editor there. I'm sorry for not following proper procedure by not registering and then adding this directly to the talk page for Donald Trump, but this is the only point of contention I have.

In the intro, it says Trump is the "only former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime". That makes it sound like plenty of "current" presidents have been. This is also a mistake I see from much of the media. Trump is the first president, period, convicted of a crime, regardless of former or current status? But then again, before asking you this, I did a search and apparently George W. Bush pleaded guilty to misdemeanor offense of drunk driving. I don't know all about U.S. law, but if he had to plead guilty to something, isn't a misdemeanor a criminal offense?

Thank you for your time. 2001:2042:6A0F:100:4C9F:2B37:8B28:FF74 (talk) 12:21, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

The restriction on the talk page has expired, so you can now take this to the Talk page. Trump wasn't president last Thursday, so, IMO, "first president convicted of a crime" is also wrong. I'd much prefer to keep stats out of the lead, anyway. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 13:47, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Trump was inmate Number P01135809 In Fulton County, Georgia. . I wonder: Has he received an inmate number for the election fraud convictions? Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 14:37, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

@Buster7: The sources in Prosecution_of_Donald_Trump_in_New_York#Arraignment and others I looked at don't mention it, and he didn't have to report to jail. Snopes says that "under arrest" meant Trump was in the custody of New York authorities while he was processed and arraigned at the Manhattan district attorney’s office in the Criminal Courts Building in Manhattan. In Atlanta, a person surrendering for arrest goes to Fulton County Jail and is processed by Sheriff's deputies. That probably accounts for the inmate number. Trump pleaded not guilty, waived arraignment, and was then released on his own recognizance, in and out in 20 minutes. The arraignment took place 4 days later, via video. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 16:37, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

While I may not choose to say or do much at the various important Citizen Trump articles, I do pay attention via my watchlist. Thank you for the careful article management and informative edit summaries. Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 11:43, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for adding the reftalk I failed at.

I did notice after submit (and in stark contrast to preview) that those had fallen all the way to bottom of page where they did not belong,

and I briefly tried to look at other examples on the page for how to avoid that but for some reason (my own lack of sleep) I couldn't figure it out (drawing the conclusion that maybe it was inevitable unless one was using a full Template:Citation which I did not feel in a position to do)

so I instead motivated-ly-reasoned that since the last thing on the page at that time was my self-reply xrefing to the discussion that the notes were from "I guess its fine" and went to bed

but as a habitual footnoter (I have auto-replace macros bound for the pre-sup-ed unicoed ¹ ² etc on my phone), its good that I know this now, before I stumble into any more Talk pages and make a mess

(like I said, I kinda hope I can find my way to caring more about non-DJT articles without falling back into the 3, 2, and 8 year hiatuses as a more-than-lurking wikipedian you'll find if you look at my contributions page [I did make a few minor edits and such here and there as an IP in the interm, but not many])

Anyway, between this and my last reply back on that one talk page, thats enough of my rambling for you; but again, thanks 🙏 Donald Guy (talk) 06:37, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

@Donald Guy: No problem — 14,500+ edits in, and I still come across templates and guidelines I don't know on a fairly regular basis. As for caring more, I mostly edit AmPol articles, and just reading the news often sends me to pages on people or events I was only dimly aware of or was completely ignorant of. Beats hobbies that make me risk life and limb, I figure. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 13:03, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I wanted to let you know that I only undid a revision you made to get the citation content back. I then deleted the edits I had made that you objected to. The only thing I left was where Trump said in 2015 he was Presbyterian, but I also shortened it as well since you rightfully mentioned the article is already long. I wanted to leave a message here so you know in advance that I did not undo your revision to just leave up things about which there was disagreement. I removed those sentences again. Thank you for your time. SeminarianJohn (talk) 17:35, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

SeminarianJohn, I don't understand. The difference between your reverted initial edit and the last ones is that you removed the direct quote and replaced the HuffPo cite with Pew Research. Why do we need to tell readers in 2024 what Trump said nine years ago? This discussion would be better on the Donald Trump talk page; other editors were involved in that section. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 18:09, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

I think it is important because the section is about his religion, mentions his parents' church, and concludes with him switching his public identity to "non-denominational Protestant." I think it makes sense to put what he was "switching" from. In this case, he identified publicly as Presbyterian for most of his presidency until 2020.

I think someone else removed the Huffpo because actually I tried to find it; that's why I reverted to find the citations again. But, it looks like it didn't come back up. I did add another CNN and Pew Research (which is probably better than Huffpo anyway in terms of RS quality). The only change I've left up is the short statement that he said he was Presbyterian. I deleted the other sentences you had removed. I just did not want you to see the notification and think I left up sentences to which you had objected and removed. If you decide to remove even that last sentence, it's not worth arguing about it for me; I won't try and add it back. I just thought it helped explain the section and the conclusion better. SeminarianJohn (talk) 18:24, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Like I said, I would use the WaPo original instead, but it's definitely paywalled. Prefer a free source when available. Did you miss that, or disagree with it? ―Mandruss ☎ 20:26, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

No, I saw it. But it's not a Chicago Tribune article. They credit WaPo, including the authors - WaPo appears to have added a third author in a later edition. We'd have to credit WaPo, as well, I think, possibly with "via Chicago Tribune". IMO it's better to use the original. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 20:44, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello. As far as I know, I followed your suggestion, which means that since the content already exists in another subtitle, there is no need to duplicate that part, so I supplemented the content that was lacking in the original part.

• For this reason, I think it is reasonable to leave the supplemented content as it is. However, * For this reason, I think it is reasonable to leave the supplemented content as it is. However, I will also ask other users' opinions on the Talk page Goodtiming8871 (talk) 01:23, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

===I left a comment responding to yours about mine on the Trump Talk page. Activist (talk) 02:21, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Valid points on the reversion, however I don't see how the "c" being capitalized or not on the cite web template is an issue. Seems like WP:LAME territory that didn't even need to be mentioned in the edit description if you ask me, unless you can provide a valid reason for it otherwise. GalaxyFighter55 (talk) 05:35, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

@GalaxyFighter55: Sorry for the late response. I believe the point being made was that "it doesn't do any harm" is a bad reason for any edit; every edit should be an improvement. This is actually written down somewhere in the guidelines, although I can't put my finger on it. That capitalization didn't improve anything, and in fact could be misleading to newer editors who don't know that "cite" and "Cite" have the same effect and are completely interchangeable. It was worth a few words in an edit summary, in my opinion. The article currently uses "Cite" 22 out of 839 times, but the existence of bad stuff never justifies the addition of more bad stuff. Besides, changing an existing "cite" to "Cite" is a different animal from coding "Cite" in the initial add. ―Mandruss ☎ 21:22, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

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Why "RfC"? Neither of these has ever been an RfC. I hesitate to "fix" this without understanding it. ―Mandruss ☎ 21:12, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Mandruss, I think I've seen "RfC" used informally before - couldn't think of anything better. Add "thoughts?" to the headings? Both discussions involved just me and one other editor. The RfCs resulted in a few additional opinions, but nothing conclusive. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 13:32, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

I think I've seen "RfC" used informally before - You're correct. Others have made the same mistake, most likely because they saw someone else make it. Downside exceeds upside. ―Mandruss ☎ 16:33, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Mandruss, "requesting input on xyz"? No objections if you want to remove "RfC" or fix it otherwise. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 16:42, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

I used to see straw polls all the time. PackMecEng (talk) 16:47, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Changed to "Comments?" but seems to me every new section is either a request for comments (~99%) or some kind of notice (~1%). ―Mandruss ☎ 17:06, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Duh, but, with some 20 active discussions, sometimes people need a blinking neon sign. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 17:12, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Is it possible you may have accidentally removed some comments on the Trump talk page? DN (talk) 06:20, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

DN, yes, looks that way. Thanks for pointing it out. No idea how I managed to do that, it was unintentional. I just self-reverted my edit. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 12:26, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi Space4Time3Continuum2x, I'm working on updates for Scott Bessent's page regarding his political views and related events. Given that you show interest in editing articles in this sphere, I thought you may be interested in reviewing my suggestions on the Talk page. I would greatly appreciate your assistance. Thank you! MG for Scott Bessent (talk) 14:46, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

I disagree with your revert on the Donald Trump article: . I think the fact Trump personally commuted a cop killer's sentence is truly unusual and thus noteworthy given he is generally considered a supporter of law enforcement and an ally of the police, so the fact he did that is considered a rare anomaly, which is what the sources I added point out. I believe it deserves a spot on his main page especially when the previous sentence, "The pardons of three military service members convicted of or charged with violent crimes were opposed by military leaders." is included and doesn't really say anything. Why is that sentence included but the one I added not? The sentence I added is far more notable due to the fact it points to a true anomaly in Trump's presidency, policies, and overall principals. Inexpiable (talk) 17:59, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

@Inexpiable: You need to start this discussion on Talk:Donald Trump. We obviously disagree on this matter but maybe other editors will agree with you. Davidson had served 28 years of his sentence, unlike many of the other people who were pardoned by Trump or whose sentences he commuted, and we don't mention any of them by name. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 18:35, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

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With the American Presidential election right around the corner, the current American political scene is as contentious as ever. Articles about the 2024 Presidential campaign and/or anything Trump related are also contentious. As many editors push agendas left and right, article management and protection is extremely important to maintain any chance of acceptable editor decorum. Trump articles are invariably long and lengthy with hundreds of references. Editors can sometimes misrepresent facts. Editors can be innocently wrong. Two editors, Space4Time3Continuum2x and Mandruss, have established a working relationship built on mutual trust and a desire to improve the editing environment. They constantly safeguard the articles(s) for reliance on the truth and Reliable Sources. Both wisely take the time to use the edit summary to explain complicated changes and provide an example of better editing for better results. Without someone (in this case two someones) these articles would be a constant mess. "Fixed" is a common refrain for these two.

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Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 11:20, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Why, thank you very much, Buster7. Consider me retained. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 15:51, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

A modern-day Rodgers & Hammerstein, it was said. ―Mandruss ☎ 17:46, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Good thing it wasn't Batman and Robin because then we'd have to determine who gets to wear the cape and who has to wear the tights. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 20:14, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

You got something against tights? ―Mandruss ☎ 20:54, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Nope, not as long as I get the cape. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 14:00, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Robin had a cape, dummy. That error alone should disqualify you for the Batman role. Besides, lots of girls like Robin better. (Boys too, if that's how you roll.) ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 05:32, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Hey man, you are perhaps the most active contributor on Wikipedia to Trump-related articles. Respectfully, I don't think it's great for the project for you to refer to him and his voters as you have on your user page. There are enough claims of bias as it is, and it's only going to get worse. Riposte97 (talk) 20:58, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

I don't know about the WP stats; there must be dozens of Trump-related articles that I haven't contributed to. What I do know is that I have read many, if not most, reliable sources (books, articles) on Trump and tried to add reliable information to WP. My opinion of Trump is no secret, I think, and I'm doing my best to keep it out of all articles I have worked on. The claims of bias, in my experience, are made by editors who misunderstand WP:NPOV and WP:PUBLICFIGURE. Anyway, I haven't called anyone names. I've mostly cited Trump and Trump critics with a few short comments that may be mildly mocking in tone. Getting worse: can't get much worse that it's been lately, and for some reason people seem to interpret WP:LEAD as "edit lead first, someone may follow up with content in the body that nobody reads anyway". Oh well, we'll get through this, too. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 10:31, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Re:

I was the one who moved and modified the DO NOT CHANGE. As I saw it, #20 says the lead should include the "exact wording": "His election and policies have sparked numerous protests", not that it necessarily has to be a standalone sentence. I don't see how that level of rigidity enforces process or serves the article.

So now we're back to what I had, except that the DO NOT CHANGE refers to a "preceding sentence" that is a sentence fragment, not a sentence. That would be a step backward. ―Mandruss ☎ 01:25, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Yesterday you deleted the ABC announcement from the Trump page while Talk page discussion was taking place, normally reverts are done after discussion on Talk ends. My concern is less with this one edit, rather than the fact that all of Trump initiated lawsuits appear to be excluded from that section which refers to "Civil lawsuits" in its section title. That's not the way his Lawsuits page is set up, which includes both suits for and against him. The addition of the new polls lawsuit is being seen in the Sunday press today as a continuation of the ABC lawsuit settlement and might be paired together with it and summarized on the main page. As you stated it: "Trump suing the Des Moines Register, its parent company Gannett, owned by Gatehouse Media, owned by Fortress Investment". The main Trump biography should not exclude all of the lawsuits which he is bringing against outside institutions.ErnestKrause (talk) 15:41, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

ErnestKrause, at the Donald Trump article we've interpreted WP:EDITCON and WP:EPTALK as follows: any insertion or removal of content in the last four to six weeks is a bold edit. If an edit is challenged by revert, the insertion/removal must be discussed on the Talk page, and, until and unless a new consensus is reached, the consensus version, in this case without mention of the ABC News settlement, is retained. You and an IP address editor who was blocked for two weeks for disruptive editing on the Donald Trump talk page are supporting the addition while two editors oppose it. The defamation lawsuit against ABC News is one of nine we mention at Defamation matters — there are others we don't mention — but not in the top bio. Legal experts don't expect the consumer fraud case against the Des Moines Register to be successful but who knows? (Masayoshi Son may want the paper to settle as a favor to be repaid in kind.) If Trump and/or "his" Department of Justice go after news organizations during his second term that would probably go into the top bio. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 17:41, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back on this. I've just noticed that someone seems to have flagged that section with an article split request, which seems to miss the point that there is already the separate Legal Affairs page for Trump which you mention above. Good holidays. ErnestKrause (talk) 15:45, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

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Re:

Hmmm, I don't see that problem. Must be a difference in skin, window size, font size, or something. This shit is maddening when everybody has a different view. ―Mandruss ☎ 00:02, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

@Mandruss: Huh — just looked at the Vector 22 version on Chrome with both images right-aligned. No problem there, the font size is noticeably larger than the legacy Vector 2010 I normally use. Also, the text flows around the images so they stay put in the paragraph, which is the first and only improvement over the legacy Vector I've come across, IMO. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 12:29, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Oh well. BTW, did you get my email reply? ―Mandruss ☎ 15:47, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

@Mandruss: The one about the blocked editor? Yes. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 17:01, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Ok, good. I never know if that actually works. ―Mandruss ☎ 17:05, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Whack!

You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

C'mon man, you've been here long enough to know not to do this when a discussion is ongoing (and clearly is leaning against the change). — Czello ^(music) 11:48, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

In fairness, I don't think first paragraph was or is under discussion. That's why I reverted with "Undue" instead of "Under discussion". What's currently under discussion is one word in the first sentence. ―Mandruss ☎ 13:10, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

@Czello: yeah, what Mandruss said. And when the discussion about adding criminal or felon or any other label to the first sentence has run its course, there's definitely going to be another discussion (and not necessarily started by me) about moving the conviction into the first paragraph. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 14:25, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

Personally I'd have considered the distinction related enough, but I do see (both of) your points. No hard feelings I hope, I won't be offended if you remove the trout! — Czello ^(music) 14:33, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

I can live with it — looks yummy. I agree with MOS:CONVICTEDFELON. Mandruss and I obviously disagree about the placement of the description of the specific crime. I don't believe it's given undue weight if placed in the first paragraph, based on its singularity and coverage. Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 14:49, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

Theoretically, editors might have accepted Space4T's edit while rejecting "criminal" in the first sentence. The difference between the two is significant; he didn't know until he tried. This would have mooted the existing discussion and saved a bunch of time. It's currently looking like the first-sentence issue is going to have to wait for a closer at WP:RFCL for 4–8 weeks (the last one waited for 6 weeks). It's possible a competent uninvolved will take on the closure without that, but unlikely. ―Mandruss ☎ 04:21, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Re:

I'll assume you included the link in the editsum in case someone wanted to go there. But it isn't clickable, so they would have to copy-and-paste into their URL field, a hassle. Is a clickable link possible in that situation? But of course! Template:Infobox_officeholder. This works for any "external link" to a wiki page, just remove everything to the left of the namespace prefix. Optionally, change all underscores to spaces for cleanliness and readability. Have a great day! ―Mandruss ☎ 11:54, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. I keep having to fiddle around with [, [[, | until I get the links right. Seems to be some kind of block, other than that my memory is working just fine - thank you. Have you been editing around the clock lately? Space4Time3Continuum2x🖖 12:08, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

It's crazy. I was "overdue for bed" in this edit]. I'm like on my third wind now and don't feel too bad. No help from "pharmaceuticals", either, aside from nicotine and caffeine. I haven't done this in years, not even during the chaos of the election. ―Mandruss ☎ 12:27, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Don't know why I read that as catheter. ―Mandruss ☎ 18:29, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Personal experience or in need of glasses? Space4Tcatherder🖖 18:31, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Mandruss, is this better? Space4TCatHerder🖖 18:33, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Much. Now shut up and go take care of your headache. ―Mandruss ☎ 18:34, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Hope your head is better. You broke context here, making me look like an idiot. Thanks, but I don't need any help looking like an idiot. See WP:REDACT. ―Mandruss ☎ 07:05, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, wasn't my intention. Hope this fixes it. It hadn't occurred to me that anyone would think I was referring to the Wikimedia Foundation and not to a description of a file, so I fixed the problem they way I fixed catherder. Space4TCatHerder🖖 10:44, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

No problemo, mooch us grassy ass. ―Mandruss ☎ 12:27, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

You self-medicating, too? Space4TCatHerder🖖 14:05, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

¿Que? ―Mandruss ☎ 22:50, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

If you're referring to mooch us grassy ass, no, I don't need to self-medicate to be a smartass. ―Mandruss ☎ 00:46, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Do you have the Wikipedia:Prosesize gadget installed? At least for the time being, it's broken for me for old revisions, so I'm unable to maintain Talk:Donald Trump#Tracking article size. If you have it installed, please try it for this old revision and see if you get the normal results for Prose size (text only). If you do, tell me what it says. Appreciated. ―Mandruss ☎ 00:38, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Mandruss, I don't have it installed, and I generally steer clear of installing stuff that comes with a warning containing the words "could contain malicious content". Editor Dr pda appears to have left the building — has a couple of unanswered "help, please" comments from January 2024 on the talk page. Is it that important? Space4TCatHerder🖖 19:48, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Hell yes it's important that I can continue to maintain Tracking article size. No problem, I can find someone else. ―Mandruss ☎ 19:51, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Mandruss, can't you take the info for article size from "Page statistics" going forward? I would have suggested sticking the lead in the sandbox as a workaround and then look at its size but that doesn't work for my sandbox. Space4TCatHerder🖖 19:59, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

"Page statistics" are not available for old revisions. ―Mandruss ☎ 20:03, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, I got that, but you already have the stats for several dates since November? Space4TCatHerder🖖 20:05, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

That's because my gadget didn't break until recently. ―Mandruss ☎ 20:10, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi Space4Time3Continuum2x,

I’d like to encourage you to take a moment to review my argument regarding the "F" proposal. For years, the current structure has been thoughtfully considered and has served readers well. My concern isn’t about preference but about preserving a phrasing that provides clarity and fulfills its purpose effectively. So far, I haven’t seen a strong explanation for why this change is necessary, and I think it’s worth reflecting on whether it truly adds value.

If you haven’t already, I’d also recommend checking out what User:Gluonz has added in the comments about previous discussions under Joe Biden’s page regarding this same topic. I think their input provides valuable context that’s worth considering.

I’d appreciate your thoughts on my argument. I’m confident we all share the goal of serving readers in the best way possible, and I hope my perspective helps inform the discussion. TimeToFixThis (talk) 03:45, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Howdy. We've got a lot of "since Year" in the intros of many US politician bios. See the bios of US senators, representatives, governors, lieutenant governors, etc. Thought about adjusting them, but it's difficult to do, when so many bios. GoodDay (talk) 14:59, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

GoodDay, it's fine as long as it isn't "since 2025". If it is "since 2025" — see Sisyphus, i.e., probably an exercise in futility trying to correct it. Space4TCatHerder🖖 15:10, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

I believe most of them who took office in 2025, have "since 2025" in their intros. GoodDay (talk) 15:17, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

VirusTotal is pretty useful, see virustotal.com. Polygnotus (talk) 15:45, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Ok, so you keep changing NPR News to NPR, contrary to the remainder of the article. I had 100% consistency in that, now I don't. You also changed AP News to AP, a dab page.

If you diverge from the established pattern, fine, but it needs a sound rationale and it needs to be consistent throughout the article. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 18:06, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

And I hope you know that "fixing" date formats in cites is a waste of your time. Same for changes from website= to work=. Neither affects what readers see. If you have the time to waste, no objection here. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 18:12, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

If I knew how to write JavaScript, I would create a script that would go through the entire article and convert all cites to the article's local standard, which would be previously established by consensus. This would involve everything listed at Talk:Donald Trump#Internal consistency, as well as parameter sequence and parameter spacing. Ten seconds once a week, and the article would stay standard throughout; no other editor effort required. If a bot came by to impose somebody else's preferences, and it wasn't undone in time, it would take ten seconds to revert it. Alas, this is mere fantasy unless somebody with JavaScript skills and an interest in this kind of thing shows up. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 18:26, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

Cessaune meets the first half of that bill. Don't know about the second half. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 18:41, 16 February 2025 (UTC) My mistake. Cessaune is template-qualified, but not JavaScript-qualified AFAIK. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 20:55, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

"AP" wasn't intentional, self-reverted. "NPR" was intentional because "NPR News" redirects to NPR. Did I violate an established standard? Dates: huh — when I looked at the preview, dates written, e.g., "20 January 2025" were rendered as "20 January 2025". So the published version switches to the American format? Work: that's my old beef with website, newspaper, etc. — work works for all of them and is shorter, too. I usually only change them when I edit a section for other reasons. Parameter spacing: we removed the white spaces before the separator some time ago (it saved n bytes), and now we're putting them back?

I don't know JavaScript. If someone else writes it, what would I need to know/do to use it? Space4TCatHerder🖖 19:22, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

• "AP" wasn't intentional, self-reverted. Thanks.
• "NPR" was intentional because "NPR News" redirects to NPR. Did I violate an established standard? Well, only if you consider 100% consistency a "standard". I changed this article-wide a month or two ago, since it seemed to me the redirect is more specific and makes more sense for our purposes. If all of NPR falls under the NPR News umbrella, then I'm wrong. I could go either way provided we stay consistent throughout.
• Dates: huh — when I looked at the preview, dates written, e.g., "20 January 2025" were rendered as "20 January 2025". So the published version switches to the American format? Here is the revision just prior to your first edit. Use your browser Find to locate "ximena". The date is in mdy format. I don't think you'll see any dates in dmy format there. This point is made in the "Internal consistency" section I linked above. I wasn't aware the conversion wasn't happening in Preview, but that's relatively unimportant. Readers can't see Preview.
• Work: that's my old beef with website, newspaper, etc. — work works for all of them and is shorter, too. I usually only change them when I edit a section for other reasons. I used to think that kind of thing was worth my time. Then I got older and wiser lol. But ok; see two bullets down.
• Parameter spacing: we removed the white spaces before the separator some time ago (it saved n bytes), and now we're putting them back? In my opinion, the improvement in readability is worth the n bytes. (Per Talk:Donald Trump#Tracking article size, the article is down 82,309 bytes since the election. Maybe we could afford to give back ~6,780 bytes [~10 bytes x ~678 cites, and that's high since many of the cites already have the spaces] for parameter spacing. Remember, those spaces have zero effect on reader performance, since they don't download the raw wikitext but rather the rendered article.) In the edit window and in diffs, the spacing tends to allow line breaks at more logical places (between cite parameters) than where they occur without the spacing. But ok, see next bullet.
• The "Internal consistency" section says: "Otherwise, coding differences that do not affect what readers see are unimportant. Since they are unimportant, we don't need to revert changes by editors who think they are important." Those editors may include you.
• I don't know JavaScript. If someone else writes it, what would I need to know/do to use it? I don't know. I just know it would be possible. That's pretty much moot unless we found someone to do it. With one exception in 11 years, I've had no luck soliciting help with such things at Village Pump. It's very hard to get JavaScript-qualified editors interested in your personal goals and needs—even when it would benefit other editors and articles. My most recent attempt is here; no takers, no joy. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 19:51, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

The subsection headings at NPR#Programs produced by NPR strongly suggest that NPR is more than NPR News. This supports the idea that our cites should link to NPR News, and I've restored 100% consistency. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 11:58, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

My browser says the article contains 633 occurrences of " |url=". This suggests that 633 cites already have the spacing. This doesn't surprise me, since I think I recall that somebody came by with a script recently and added the spacing to everything, and that wasn't reverted. So the number of cites without the spacing is ~45, and that's high since some of the 678 are {{sfn}}s, not CS1 citations. But at 10 bytes per cite, it would add ~450 bytes to add the spacing to the other 45 cites. I'm considering making the spacing part of the local conventions per the benefits I outlined above; what do you think? ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 12:25, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Go for it — I can live with "NPR News" and " |". That's been (How many editors will bother reading the local conventions?) You may want to add access-date, too. That seems to be missing from quite a few of recently added cites. Space4TCatHerder🖖 15:46, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Re time to waste: you do cite clean-up and sooner or later I take the hatchet to the material, manually because of said cite clean-up. I don't know, maybe wait a day or two? 3RR limits what I can do. Space4TCatHerder🖖 15:55, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

I'll give it a try. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 17:35, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

As your kindred coding geekwonk, I eagerly await your response at Talk:Donald Trump#Wikitext formatting change?. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 17:52, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Mandruss, responding here instead of continuing on Ann drew's talk page. Enthusiastic—hmm. It's been a long eight months since I wrote "if someone else writes it" I'll take a look at it. (May I use "hmm" or is that a no-no like "huh"?) Space4TCatHerder🖖 15:21, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Ok. I guess you'll take what we end up with.

• Huh? = I have no clue what you're talking about. Stop talking nonsense.
• Hmm = Contemplating. Possibly puzzled. Not your fault. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 15:29, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

So, no longer grating? Yay, license to huh. Space4TCatHerder🖖 16:13, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Clarification needed. #1 = unacceptable. #2 acceptable. I only say this because you seem to care a little about this. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 16:22, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

I think dismissals is a fair compromise...but only because it's even more unspecific. I've never been fired in my life, but I've been laid off multiple times. They are not at all the same thing. Out of curiosity, do you think 2025 United States federal mass layoffs needs to be renamed? --Onorem (talk) 17:02, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

You said this needs to stay on the page until the RfC is closed. Is that just for easy reference from the RfC? If so, it would be just as easily referenced in the archive. If it's because it might be resumed depending on the outcome of the RfC, I suggest we archive it and manually (cut-and-paste) restore it if necessary. We need some page size relief. What think thee? ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 10:30, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Mandruss, this too shall pass or don't fret, me brother, the sticky bun come soon Is auto-archiving working again? Seems I was off by one day when I archived three discussions that were last edited on March 27. Space4TCatHerder🖖 12:51, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Auto-archive appeared to work on its last run. I'm still pursuing an answer as to why it failed so dramatically earlier. Seems I was off by one day when I archived three discussions that were last edited on March 27. Bear in mind that the bot can't make it by every day, so those might not be auto-archived tomorrow. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 12:58, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

The only reason we could "legally" manually archive those other five threads without closure per #13: the bot had already come by and missed them multiple times. That was not the case with the three you manually archived without closure today. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 13:33, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

@Mandruss: Yay Space4TCatHerder🖖 13:51, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Yep. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 13:55, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Re:

Remember, there is no limit on the number of reverts per existing consensus. Use #37, not NOTNEWS. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 11:29, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Mandruss, that wasn't meant as a revert, just normal editing + venting about having to add current and developing events — if you can't beat them, join them. Space4TCatHerder🖖 11:35, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

I'll never join them until there is a clear local consensus against our view. I encourage you not to, either. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 11:47, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

By referring to stopping the tide, you're effectively saying "I'm in a small minority here, please lambaste me for not dropping the WP:STICK." Not a good strategy imo. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 12:44, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi. The discussion you opened on whether Donald Trump should be described as a political outsider in Donald Trump's article lede has been archived with no clear consensus. I think the political outsider description should be removed and simply say that Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, as it stood for years before a user incorporated without consensus into the article lead the political outsider description in February 2025

Esterau16 (talk) 02:12, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, Esterau16. I unarchived the discussion. Space4TCatHerder🖖 06:28, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Donald Trump Jr., you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Axios and David Sacks.

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Have you heard anything further about this? He hasn't responded to my April 14 email inquiry. Thinking he may have quit or been sacked. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 05:05, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Mandruss, he's still the production editor, according to the paper; presumably ensuring that content is factual is keeping him busy, what with the current crop of lying liars in the administration. I haven't responded to the email; after this New Yorker article on Musk's "problem with Wikipedia" the project has probably been shelved. Space4TCatHerder🖖 13:48, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

The secrets to the universe 2603:8000:8CF0:8A80:21A9:6C07:7055:5CED (talk) 07:24, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

Your signature here has two different dates. --Jax 0677 (talk) 16:19, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

You might also wish to start archiving your talk page. --Jax 0677 (talk) 16:22, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the edit and mentioning how it was already talked about in the 2024 presidential election section of Trump’s article. I didn’t notice it.And1987 (talk) 00:34, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you Mac but just outta curiosity why do you hate our current president so much? Also, why do you want his term to end so quickly? SilkDirksoak2ek3 13:50, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

Re:

The language police will be along shortly to correct "committed suicide" to "ended his life", or something. Actually I don't know the resolution of that protracted battle, but there are many editors around who seem to have emotional dogs in the fight. WP is too far left for my taste. Alas. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 14:28, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Sure, it's not policy, but the MOS guideline directs us not to say someone 'unalived' themself, or other poetic nonsense. --Onorem (talk) 14:38, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Passed away by tying a rope, fashioned from an orange sheet or shirt, around his neck and jumping off the top bunk in his cell. Space4TCatHerder🖖 14:50, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Obie said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, cause he took out the toilet seat so I couldn't hit myself over the head and drown [...]. —Arlo Guthrie, Alice's Restaurant.

―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 15:13, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Come to think of it, I vaguely remember a discussion about that but not when and where it took place. There's an essay but I don't see how this suicide could be interpreted as resulting from a mental health disease[] like major depression. Bondi's memo says that "After a thorough investigation, FBI investigators concluded that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on August 10, 2019." Space4TCatHerder🖖 14:43, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Killed himself has the language police's approval. Space4TCatHerder🖖 14:59, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

It was mostly the word "committed" they didn't like. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 15:03, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, we wouldn't want to inadvertently associate Epstein with those who have committed heinous crimes . Space4TCatHerder🖖 15:09, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Died by suicide I think is the modern term. I've seen quite a few articles changed to this. Knitsey (talk) 15:15, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

The language police doesn't care about context. Bad words are bad words, full stop. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 15:21, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

You’ve tangled with attempts to whitewash the page before, interested in your opinion of the latest. Hyperbolick (talk) 07:23, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Hyperbolick, I hadn't looked at the history of the article [when I edited the redirect, and I don't remember] how I came across the redirect to Candace Owens. I take [it] you created the article in 2018 after Owens launched her social media campaign that appropriated the name "Blexit". I'm not sure that the Minneapolis-based grassroots movement still exists since the url of their website appears to have been bought by some online gambling outfit, but they invented the term and used it. Owens's Blexit Foundation Inc never was a grassroots movement, and it is currently part of Turning Point USA. Some of TPUSA's subsidiaries have their own articles, e.g., Turning Point Action; if there is enough material for a separate article, it should be called "Blexit Foundation". Anyway, I rewrote the article with more content on both organizations. Space4TCatHerder🖖 14:09, 1 August 2025 (UTC) Added content in brackets to clarify what I meant. Space4TCatHerder🖖 18:08, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi Hyperbolick, I am the user you reverted. Please look at the history carefully. In December 2021 Space4Time3Continuum2x started the set index article from a former redirect. This remained stable for years before you changed it in June 2024 into a strange half-article half-set index page. I restored it back to Space4Time3Continuum2x's set index page. It's got to be either a regular article or a set index article, you can't have both. Thanks Sro23 (talk) 17:10, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Still the mystery of how the sources and content there when the page was created (in 2018) mysteriously got whitewashed away in a redirect nobody discussed, and then magically never reappeared when that redirect was made back into its pwn page. Clever whitewashing was done, but whitewashing still. Hyperbolick (talk) 19:34, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

This was the initial redirect with the edit summary WP:NOTNEWS. I don't know what you believe was whitewashed. The Minneapolis Blexit grassroots movement preceded Owens's Blexit Foundation which has a section in Owens's article. The Blexit article mentions both, and there is a link to the section in Owens's article. Space4TCatHerder🖖 20:31, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Apologies if I misunderstood the sequence of events. Hyperbolick (talk) 21:44, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Re:

No other president will use that plane. Therefore we're referring to a specific individual, Trump. Therefore bullet 2 at MOS:JOBTITLE applies. Moot now, obviously, but for future reference. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 15:41, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

Seems to me the retrofit would take a year or two. Assuming the taxpayers are funding the retrofit, I'm amazed that the country would tolerate spending a bil on an Air Force One that would be used only for the year or two remaining. Am I wrong that Trump can't run in 2028 without a constitutional amendment? ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 18:24, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

Oh, I dunno, the next president may end up with the flying palace and two old planes with a lot of downtime for repairs if the work on the Qatari plane now takes precedent over the two presidential jets ordered from Boeing. Reuters reported in February that Boeing had problems finding suppliers for interior components and also workers with the necessary security clearances. The tariffs probably haven't made procurement any easier, but I'm sure L3 Harris won't encounter any problems; after all, they have the experience to "unleash American industry and make defense acquisition more efficient“. And maybe they can rehire the people they laid off last year. Space4TCatHerder🖖 18:28, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

He'll declare the 22nd Amendment null and void by executive order. Space4TCatHerder🖖 18:31, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

Executive order, schmexecutive schmorder; thanks for the hyperbole. I don't think even Trump can do that, and a serious attempt would mean impeachment #3 and possible criminal charges. We're not a full dictatorship quite yet. It would take another self-coup, this one successful, and I'm confident the military would do their sworn duty and refuse to act on unlawful orders. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 18:42, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

Seems I forgot the sarcasm alert after "executive order". Space4TCatHerder🖖 19:04, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

Seems so. Thanks for clarifying. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 19:07, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

Mandruss, I'm confident the military would do their sworn duty and refuse to act on unlawful orders I'm a litte less confident today: the Loomer/Hegseth effect. "Once a school that strove to give cadets the broad-based, critical-minded, nonpartisan education they need for careers as Army officers, [West Point] was suddenly eliminating courses, modifying syllabuses and censoring arguments to comport with the ideological tastes of the Trump administration" - a tenured West Point professor's opinion published in the NYT in May. Space4TCatHerder🖖 11:41, 3 August 2025 (UTC)

I have to believe that American democracy is more resilient. But it's largely moot to me, since I give this round of Western civilization about 100 more years before total collapse and Dark Ages II. Thankfully I won't be here to see it, but I certainly wouldn't be having kids at this point. I love them too much to put them through that. Not to mention further generations that I might be enabling. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 12:54, 3 August 2025 (UTC)

Also, before turning the plane over to Trump's fictional presidential library, wouldn't they have to remove all the classified high-tech? And who pays for the removal? Space4TCatHerder🖖 18:37, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

Idk. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 18:42, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

And now they're openly admitting that they're entitled to their own facts and not just their own opinions: "'The president wants his own people there, so that when we see the numbers, they’re more transparent and more reliable,' Mr. Hassett told NBC’s Meet the Press, explaining at one point that the president sought to ensure jobs numbers could be 'trusted'." Aka I only trust the statistics I've doctored myself. Space4TCatHerder🖖 16:00, 3 August 2025 (UTC)

Yawn. Seems so mundane and insignificant compared to the collapse of civilization (see above). I guess that's why I don't care a lot about the daily fray. Some of it's fun and/or interesting to watch. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 16:10, 3 August 2025 (UTC)

This proposal has three Supports and one Oppose, which in my opinion was very effectively countered and the counter has not been countered, suggesting that the Opposer (you) either conceded or lost interest. Do you think that's enough for a listed consensus after auto-archival, without a closure? ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 02:15, 16 August 2025 (UTC)

Never mind, I just did it following auto-archival. Challenge if you like. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 15:15, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

times 15. A lot of work to shorten a list that editors rarely see. I'll lay odds you'll get tired of that real quick. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 18:49, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

Oh, and you create a problem if one of the versions ends up copied to the article, and that version doesn't contain the definitions of all references that it uses. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 19:15, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

I actually thought of that and left the refs (#20–24) mostly alone — overlooked Broadwater, 'though. I sincerely hope that 11 challenged versions copied to the Talk page with mostly the same references will remain an exception. Space4TCatHerder🖖 19:40, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

Fixed Broadwater ref: refs #20–#25 for round 2 proposals. Space4TCatHerder🖖 20:10, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

Re this edit, your edit summary just says "Not an improvement". Can you please clarify why using the Template:Multiple image was not an improvement in this case?

Cheers! 1timeuse75 (talk) 20:58, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

1timeuse75, what was the purpose of adding the template to the text? It creates a two-image gallery box of unrelated images, with a large white space under the video. WP:IG: Generally, a gallery or cluster of images should not be added so long as there is space for images to be effectively presented adjacent to text. Space4TCatHerder🖖 12:44, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

User:Space4Time3Continuum2x#On coping

Nice work. The Scream is a nice touch. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 04:37, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Feel more like screaming at the moment — see Jimmy Kimmel#Suspension. On the bright side, I just discovered that one of the legal minions who filed Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times is named "Epstein". If that's the bright side, boy howdy, how deep in the dumps am I? Oh well, they try to take away late-night comedy, and give us theater of the absurd in the form of grovelling cabinet meetings and court filings. Citing Judge Merryday: Similarly, in one of many, often repetitive, and laudatory (toward President Trump) but superfluous allegations, the pleader states, "'The Apprentice' represented the cultural magnitude of President Trump’s singular brilliance, which captured the [Z]eitgeist of our time." Space4TCatHerder🖖 20:59, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi! I have no ability to modify the Charlie Kirk Wikipedia article, but I wanted to add something about his roots.

In one of his speeches, Charlie Kirk recounted that his great-great-grandfather came to the US from Poland. His maternal grandmother was Patricia Marie Dankowski, a Polish woman living in Chicago. His maternal father was of Irish descent. Kirk's genealogy also included English and German ancestry on his father's side.

The source of this information can be found here:

• https://wpolityce.pl/swiat/741064-pradziadkowie-sp-kirka-przybyli-do-usa-z-polski
• https://tvrepublika.pl/Swiat/Polski-watek-w-zamachu-na-Charliego-Kirka/197998

I also found something here:

• https://ethnicelebs.com/charlie-kirk

The video in which Kirk himself talks about it is here:

• https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nOR9IJqCpHQ

Could you help me add this information? Thank you! 79.185.225.73 (talk) 13:47, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Please, place an edit request on the Charlie Kirk talk page via this link&. Other editors on that page may be able to verify the reliability of the sources faster than I could. Thanks. Space4TCatHerder🖖 14:11, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Re the edit summary:

You sound like you understand that, so maybe you can explain it to me. During the 24 hours on the talk page, what if a majority oppose the edit? Can they reinstate without violating the remedy? ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 15:18, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

I don't understand the question. If a majority of responding editors opposes a challenged bold edit, then the content stays in (if the bold edit removed it) or out (if the bold edit added new material). While a discussion in is ongoing, the status quo ante is maintained. If nobody responds within 24 hours of the comment being posted on the talk page, then the editor is free to repeat the edit. In this particular case, the editor added a link here, was reverted here, reinserted the link here, and was reverted again here. Same story with this link: added here, reverted here, reinserted here, and reverted a second time here. I left a note on the editor's talk page. Space4TCatHerder🖖 15:51, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

That makes sense to me, but the remedy leaves a ton unsaid as currently written. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 16:31, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

The "Warning: active arbitration remedies" banner on the Talk page seems sufficient to me. I think the problem is editors not reading or remembering it. Space4TCatHerder🖖 16:40, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

You must follow the bold-revert-discuss cycle if your change is reverted. You may not reinstate your edit unless (1) you post a talk page message discussing your edit, (2) you wait 24 hours from the time of this talk page message, and (3) the discussion does not show a majority in opposition to your edit.

Am I the only one dumb enough to need the additional explanation? ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 16:53, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Uh, yes? You must follow the bold-revert-discuss cycle if your change is reverted. You may not reinstate your edit until you post unless you have posted a talk page message discussing your edit and have waited 24 hours from the time of this talk page message. You may only reinstate your edit if nobody responds within those 24 hours or if a majority of editors in an ensuing discussion supports your edit. That's the "Anything that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood" version. Space4TCatHerder🖖 17:25, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

You asked a question about my edit when you reverted my edit but I don't see a way to respond to it. I'm not aware of another 2-term president named Donald Trump. However, there's also no other 2-term Governor of Maine named Janet Mills and yet her birth year is listed in the description. GamerKlim9716 (talk) 18:00, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

GamerKlim9716, WP:SHORTDES says that the short description of a Wikipedia page is a brief phrase intended to complement and clarify the page title, particularly in contexts where this is seen in isolation from the page itself. Taken together, the title and short description concisely explain the subject of the page—for example, to help a user identify the desired article in a list of search results. In both cases, the office ("President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)" and "Governor of Maine since 2019", respectively) is the only descriptor necessary to identify the subject. In Mills case, the birth year was also added recently without an edit summary. IMO, it should be removed as well. Space4TCatHerder🖖 20:41, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

I don't know why you would do this. Your comment is a !vote, isn't it? It's not really a comment to the other editor, and you were asked earlier whether you actually opposed or not. Also, why would you not have your user name in your signature? This is confusing. Drmies (talk) 16:36, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Drmies, yes, but it's also a response to Susan who may have misunderstood my response to Mandruss which appears to have been too obtuse for Mandruss, as well. My signature: I customized it per WP:FANCYSIG (many editors do); editing Trump pages often feels like herding cats, and the Vulcan salute for (talk) means I've probably watched too much TV. Space4TCatHerder🖖 17:05, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

• Yeah, I thought that warranted its own bullet, but meh.
• I wholeheartedly support requiring the username in the signature, precisely because it's confusing otherwise. The community disagrees, apparently feeling that freedom of expression for one is more important than freedom from confusion for many. So be it, and I don't spend my time trying to get editors to stop doing something fully supported by PAGs. ―Mandruss ☎ 2¢. IMO. 19:55, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

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Abishe (talk) 16:44, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

How did you know? ―Mandruss ☎ 2¢. IMO. 12:32, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

Mandruss, first clue: I am requesting that editors review whether: Certain sections place disproportionate emphasis on negative framing Relevant contextual information or outcomes are missing Alternative interpretations supported by reliable sources should be included to improve neutrality I am happy to assist by suggesting specific sources and proposed wording that aligns with Wikipedia policy. AI either numbered or used bullet points for the two three areas to be reviewed and possibly the offer to assist. The human single-purpose account then removed the numbers or bullet points but didn't notice or bother with the missing punctuation — not in keeping with the rest of the text. And after Czello's comment about specific sections/sentences, the AI immediately agreed and came back with a specific "concern" that sounds a lot like Grokipedia's Trump article. Also: My concern is not that criticism exists, but that the balance of presentation may not fully reflect the breadth of reliable reporting, resulting in a skewed narrative. Who talks like that? (Or maybe that's my highfalutin radar going off.) GPTZero rated both texts as 100% AI-generated; even with an error rate of up to 20%, that's still mostly AI. Space4TCatHerder🖖 17:28, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

Ok, next question. If a comment has a reasonably sound policy basis, who cares how it was generated? ―Mandruss ☎ 2¢. IMO. 17:33, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

WP:LLMCOMM and WP:AITALK. Wasn't familiar with them when I closed the section, just hatted it accordingly. Space4TCatHerder🖖 18:18, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

We should be on the same page re this parameter. What's your objection? ―Mandruss ☎ 2¢. IMO. 19:23, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

And url-access=subscription. ―Mandruss ☎ 2¢. IMO. 19:38, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

I interpret WP:URLACCESS to mean "it's optional, and I'm feeling grumpy and inclined to be discourteous today". Saving bytes! Seriously, they were added fairly recently (and by a very insistent byte-saver, if I remember correctly), and I don't recall a single complaint about missing restriction signaling from the before-times. They're also an additional error source because editors can't tell the difference between registration, limited, and subscription. And sometimes they're wrong. Space4TCatHerder🖖 19:55, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Sounds like worthy of a consensus item, like #25. ―Mandruss ☎ 2¢. IMO. 20:09, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

No objection if you want to. Space4TCatHerder🖖 20:12, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

I can't articulate it like you can. You start, I'll support. I don't really care which way to go, I just want it cohesive and consistent. ―Mandruss ☎ 2¢. IMO. 20:20, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

I can't articulate it like you can — since when? I'll do it but not today. Will probably result in a lengthy discussion of the meaning of "should" in the context of "as a courtesy". Space4TCatHerder🖖 20:53, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Exactly what local consensus is for: firming up unhelpfully vague guidelines. ―Mandruss ☎ 2¢. IMO. 05:37, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Mandruss, I'll get around to this in the next few days, unless there's more pressing work or I'm under heavy sedation. Space4TCatHerder🖖 22:59, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Ok, take your time. ―Mandruss ☎ 2¢. IMO. 03:42, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

As a reminder, Donald Trump is under BRD CTOP restriction: You must follow the bold-revert-discuss cycle if your change is reverted. You may not reinstate your edit until you post a talk page message discussing your edit and have waited 24 hours from the time of this talk page message.. Noting that these reverts in combination are breaching this restriction already. . Please discuss on the talkpage. CNC (talk) 12:59, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

CommunityNotesContributor, the page is under 3RR, not 1RR. Today is January 29. The revert on January 27 is outside the 24-hour period. I don't know what "cites don't live in the body" means. I messed up the multiple sources cite. When I figure out what I did wrong, I'll reinsert since that appears to be your objection to my revert of a bold edit. Space4TCatHerder🖖 13:11, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

I'm talking about the WP:CT/AP restrictions per WP:STANDARDSET. As far as I can tell, it's been like that since 2018. This has nothing to do with 1RR or 3RR, it's about BRD (that cite specifically points out the violation). Hence repeating your edit, is a violation of this restriction, unless you posted on the talk page and waited 24 hours? CNC (talk) 13:34, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

My edit wasn't bold. I partially reverted, i.e., challenged this bold edit (deletion of longstanding content). The onus would be on the bold editor to take the issue to the talk page. I don't see why they would want to do so since I removed the part of the sentence that wasn't supported by the two sources present at the time of the bold edit or by the third source I added. See also the Rodman discussion, above. Space4TCatHerder🖖 14:00, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

I wasn't talking about that edit, as I said in the edit summary my objection to that was only to a miss-cite that you cleaned up. Per the diffs I posted, restoring content twice without discussion is a violation of CTOP-based BRD restrictions (regardless of timeframe). Ergo, WP:BRR does not apply when BRD is enforced via CTOP. CNC (talk) 15:37, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

I asked for clarification at Talk:Donald Trump#BRR. Space4TCatHerder🖖 16:44, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

I'm going to take a step back from the discussion on Trump, as it seems to be going in circles at this point. If it goes to BLPN I think maybe editors should be aware that the term has been used in RS before, here are some examples in the Independent & Atlantic. Cheers. DN (talk) 21:59, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

I believe that's the first time I've seen scripture cited in an edit summary. ―Mandruss ☎ 2¢. IMO. 17:10, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

I've been citing scripture a lot recently (and listening to Johnny Cash) — Sunday school finally paying off. Space4TCatHerder🖖 17:21, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Who woulda thunk it. ―Mandruss ☎ 2¢. IMO. 17:33, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

You've never seen this?? Riposte97 (talk) 22:48, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

I didn't know what to make of *Joe Biden voice* C'mon man. I don't remember whether I ever saw the compilation. I vaguely remember reading about Biden's verbal quirks but don't seem to have paid much attention to them. Space4TCatHerder🖖 13:34, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Re:

Outdenting in a thread after other editor's have already responded makes it very hard to figure out who responded to whom. - Why would you outdent before other editors have already responded?

We'll have to outdent there sooner or later if the subthread continues, and that will be the same situation. ―Mandruss ☎ 2¢. IMO. 14:40, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

What I meant was that Czello and Riposte had responded to earlier comments by Snokalok in the same thread (following Anythingyouwant's !vote). Slomo666's outdented comment to Alexandraaaacs1989's comment messed up the way their responses were published: Before and after. Maybe the two editors can continue that particular discussion on one of their talk pages? It seems to have turned into a discussion about WP policies. Space4TCatHerder🖖 15:11, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

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