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Errors by user Robotic131225189311

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

@Mandruss:  Done - Ryk72 09:11, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, but only partly done. I still dispute this edit, and the editsum shows cluelessness as to WP:DUE and WP:LEAD. ―Mandruss ☎ 09:18, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Ah! I wondered why so much fuss over an extra 's'. Hopefully fixed now. - Ryk72 09:22, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. Is correcting violations of the ArbCom restrictions exempt from 1RR? If so, I could have saved you the trouble. If not, you violated 1RR to save me from committing that egregious offense (thanks yet again). Anyone? Bueller? ―Mandruss ☎ 09:25, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

I don't believe that it is exempt. It's arguable whether it should be; I can see good reasons for both exempt & not. I am relying on the definition of "revert" at WP:3RR - An edit or a series of consecutive edits that undoes other editors' actions—whether in whole or in part—counts as a revert. - As my edits were consecutive, they are one revert. Of course, I'm happy to plead my case at WP:AE if anyone feels so inclined. - Ryk72 11:25, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

This makes no sense. Even if it were appropriate for the lead, it's awkwardly worded and haphazardly placed without regard for chronology. Not happening. Doc talk 10:24, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Ok. So he's reinstated the same bit of crap for the 3rd time within 24 hours. Can we get a block for 1RR violation and can someone remove it? It's sloppy and completely undue for the lead. Embarrassingly bad. Doc talk 10:43, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

• This edit is also worrying. Thoughts on a 1RR exemption based on WP:BLPDELETE? - Ryk72 11:42, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

It is absolutely unacceptable. This editor needs to be blocked. Now. Doc talk 11:45, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

This could be a first, me completely agreeing with Doc. This is not the kind of article where aggressive incompetence even after warnings and corrections can be tolerated, and a DE complaint at ANI should not be required. Is Bishonen in the house by any chance? ―Mandruss ☎ 11:54, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

(As surprising this may seem to some, not every single "Trump supporter" is a knuckle-dragging, xenophobic, misogynistic, racist, LGBQT-hatin', wall-worshipping, inbred cretin. I'm honored that we can agree on some things. Huzzah!) Doc talk 07:51, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

I had no idea you are a "Trump supporter", and I honestly don't categorize editors that way anyway. I categorize them according to whether they are supporters of Misplaced Pages policy, process, and good faith collaboration. None of which is a comment about you either way. ―Mandruss ☎ 08:03, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

One foot out the door, but I'll look at it when I get back. Bishonen | talk 12:04, 10 November 2016 (UTC).

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

See my opening comment here. With respect, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect even a newer user to respond to a freaking ping and read what was written there. WP:CIR. They had more than ample advice and warning, even if we failed to follow procedure to the letter. Thanks for the block. ―Mandruss ☎ 14:00, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Together with the warnings, it should hopefully hold them. Bishonen | talk 14:03, 10 November 2016 (UTC).

One of the things about the DS, as I understand it, is that people generally will not be sanctioned for violating them until after they have received the OFFICIAL warning on their talk page. When you put {{subst:alert|ap}} on their talk page, it gets logged, and they are thereafter expected to abide by the rules and be sanctioned if they don't. It creates an actual record, which they cannot remove, showing that they have been warned. "They should have read the notice" or "I pinged them" is not considered to be adequate, documented warning in terms of issuing blocks and/or bans (except possibly in the most egregious cases). Anyhow, if you see someone violating the DS, don't mess around with other ways of warning them. Put the template on their talk page. In my case I usually add a custom-written paragraph explaining exactly what that means and what behavior of theirs triggered it. But it is the official templated warning that puts them on notice. Bishonen, would you agree with this? --MelanieN (talk) 16:33, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Yes, MelanieN, I have to agree. It's a very bureaucratic system, but we have to comply with it, because it's only the official alert template that "counts", which matters a lot if the user appeals our discretionary sanctions. On the upside, it's not hard to add a ds alert template. Melanie has provided the specific American politics template above. This is the general form of the alert, for all areas: {{subst:alert|topic}}. Replace "topic" with the official and also intuitive code for the topic area (ap for American politics, blp for biographies, cc for climate change, and so on). To make doubly sure, there's a list of those topic codes here (scroll down a little). Bishonen | talk 16:53, 10 November 2016 (UTC).

Well I'm just learning this after 3.5 years and about 30K edits, and it's not like I don't pay attention or don't care about doing things the right way. The logical conclusion is that the DS are largely pointless unless there happens to be someone at my level or above around. "Bureaucracy" is spot on, and it's my understanding that excessive bureaucracy is something to be avoided, not embraced. Added to my list of Just How Things Are At En-wiki, Deal With It. ―Mandruss ☎ 17:50, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Climate change denial should be mentioned in the lead

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

It has not received a lot of attention and therefore does not belong there (yet). TFD (talk) 07:49, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

IMHO, it has received a lot of attention (at least outside the US) although we may wait for a few days to put it in the lead. Jean-Jacques Georges (talk) 08:58, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

It does not belong in the lede. The lede should mention only those things that he himself made into the major themes of his campaign (e.g. immigration and trade). Climate change is already in the body of the text, and it gets suitable attention at Political positions of Donald Trump. --MelanieN (talk) 16:35, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

"The lede should mention only those things that he himself made into the major themes" – that the subject of an article gets to decide which issues that are covered in the lead is certainly not a recognised principle on Misplaced Pages or what WP:LEAD says. Trump has himself made strongly contrarian statements on climate change and the environment and has said he wants to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency. Clearly environmental policy is a very important topic and he holds strong views on it and has proposed radical policies in the field. --Tataral (talk) 19:47, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Please have this discussion at Talk:Political positions of Donald Trump. — JFG 23:06, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

"Clearly environmental policy is a very important topic" This statement is factually incorrect. You may think environmental policy is important but that is your opinion only. I don't think environmental policy is important. Further, the assertion that environmental policy is "clearly very important" is necessarily false... because it clearly is NOT important to me. So speak for yourself. 107.0.155.16 (talk) 16:49, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 11 November 2016

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

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

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

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

 Not done See the definition of President-elect of the United States. — JFG 16:29, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

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

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 11 November 2016

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

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

President (elect) should come before businessman

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

Wrong golf course

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

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

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 11 November 2016

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

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

Rfc about Donald Trump's new photo proposal

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

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

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

Or is it too early to bring this up? Let's wait until his son is elected before we add the J:). Objective3000 (talk) 18:47, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

You think his son could beat Chelsea? I suggest we start an article on the presidency of Donald Trump if there is not one already. Maybe the articles on the Trump organization and The Apprentice are adequate for his business activities. TFD (talk) 20:07, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Once he becomes president next year, there's every chance the article will need to be moved to Donald J. Trump; his official social media profiles (Twitter, Facebook) use his middle initial. I think it is too soon to do so now as it's not in the common vernacular as is with John F. Kennedy or even James K. Polk. So many people have known him for decades as just Donald Trump, but it is still worth pointing out … only time will tell! CityFeedback 10:02, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Once he becomes president, he will establish how he wishes to be known. If the White House webpage refers to him as Donald J. Trump; if his employees and surrogates refer to him as "President Donald J. Trump"; if his official portrait (and we should put that in here if we can get it) is titled Donald J. Trump; then it will be clear that is his presidential name and we should move the article. If these sources mainly refer to him as "Donald Trump" then we will keep it here. Nothing should be done until he assumes office. A president gets to establish how he/she is referred to by contemporaries and posterity - whether as Richard M. Nixon or Ronald Reagan, Dwight D. Eisenhower or Jimmy Carter. (And I'm puzzled - you said his Facebook and Twitter profiles use his middle initial, but those entities are titled without it..) MelanieN alt (talk) 08:18, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Trump and Wrestling

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

• Honestly that is such a small part of his life it does not warrant to be included in the lead, and that is coming from a wrestling fan.  MPJ-DK  13:38, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

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

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

WP:CRYSTALBALL statement in article lead

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The first paragraph of the lead section contains the sentence:

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

Please change this to:

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

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

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

Donald Trump is the president-elect ?

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

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

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

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

Claim that Donald Trump saved the world from nuclear war

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

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

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

Might be worth adding to Sergey Glazyev, although the Daily Mail is not always regarded as WP:RS. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:03, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

While it's pretty clear from my user page that I hate both Trump and the Mail, pretty much every any news source you can read on Trump right now is going to be POV one way or another, and new information should ideally from a cross-section of pieces whose bias cancels each other out. Ritchie333 12:23, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Two days after the election and Trump has yet to take office. The claim, if it was made, is silly and the person making the claim holds no office. Further, his opinion is likely tainted by the fact that the current president froze his U.S assets and he is banned from entering the U.S. Objective3000 (talk) 12:31, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

new information should ideally from a cross-section of pieces whose bias cancels each other out Did I just hear that from an admin? WP:FALSEBALANCE. ―Mandruss ☎ 12:36, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

That link you supplied mentions things like the moon landings being a hoax and that the earth is flat; the only news source I know who mentions that is the Sunday Sport. Ritchie333 12:39, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Nevertheless, I know of nothing in WP:NPOV or any other policy that supports your statement highlighted above. My guide is WP:DUE, whether or not that results in "a cross-section of pieces whose bias cancels each other out". ―Mandruss ☎ 12:43, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

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

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

Immediate back flip on main stance straight after election

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

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