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Try to be nice and... Let's make a pact, you and me...don't make assumptions about me and I won't make assumptions about you.
I try to think the best about others...so try to think the best about me, OK?!? Assuming good reasons for our fellow Wikipedia editors' behavior should be the first thing we do BEFORE we reach for the keyboard...
Stating that "Our social policies are not a suicide pact" is not really a decent excuse for any Wikipedian's poor behavior. And I really hate it when good editors feel they have to leave...I mean, I can understand retiring, but I miss so many people who aren't around any more for one reason or another. Sometimes?...sometimes I adopt really crappy orphan articles and when others come along and change and/or improve my efforts,
I know I don't "own" the article and I don't edit war about it but it sometimes just breaks my heart. True Confession: I am not a coder, I am not a computer-person. I do not understand Linux or Flow or liquid threads or almost any aspect of the technical side of Wikipedia...all I know Is that I love words. I love being part of this project. I love making knowledge accessible to people. So I taught myself by cutting & pasting the code from articles and from Wiki-gimmicks that I liked, from pestering people who knew their way around (especially User:Chzz). The high I got from mastering the language and learning how to make things look right?... PRICELESS.
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Shearonink (talk) 04:07, 17 March 2017 (UTC) [1] Lincoln COPYVIO TOOL ->>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/ possible sock & master ->> https://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/editorinteract.py?users=Kollauwanderer&users=Skeptiker&users=&startdate=&enddate=&ns=&server=enwiki https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spacetime&diff=prev&oldid=783231665 stigmatella aurantiaca "George Washington Reconsidered" edited by Don Higginbotham this & this Take another look at this deletion of content -> cycling deaths TEMPLATE EDITNOTICE HARVARD CITES HOW TO DO THIS EDITNOTICES STUFF @Shearonink: Edit notices are created in a pseudo-namespace at Template:Editnotices/Page/___. I've created Template:Editnotices/Page/Hyde Park Picture House for you --DannyS712 (talk) 05:46, 21 May 2019 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_bike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_response_to_the_Wikimedia_Foundation%27s_ban_of_Fram#Comments_from_Risker https://www.podiumcafe.com/book-corner/2018/1/31/16955058/paced-bicycle-racing-deaths Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office deleted cyclists info separate sections since 2004 July 2010 version of 'List of professional cyclists who have died during a race' What this List looked like when I started cult of death around professional cycling, "Sport, History, and Heritage: Studies in Public Representation" stripped down URL for cite Google search for 'cycling memorials' All about the Bike "Cyclopedia: It's All about the Bike" URL for cite pages 234-237 By William Fotheringham mortality among french cyclists in the tour de france Sports Doping article I would love to read get a hold of arnie baker traumatic injuries in a masters club INternational pro riders deaths arnice baker article linkage to federations Notes The following NOTES on cycling List need to be sourced Notes 1, 7, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27 1...<ref group = "Note">"Pacemakers" in this sense were [[Motor-paced racing#Pacing by motorcycle|motorcyclists]] who rode motorcycles as a team mate in front of and for specific professional cyclists. These motorized vehicles provided an additional boost of speed to the cyclists behind them via their slipstreams (as in Andrew Horman's ''Life in the Slipstream: The Legend of Bobby Walthour''.)</ref> 7...<ref group = "Note">There appears to be some confusion over the year of Taylor's death, reported in various [[WP:IRS|reliable sources]] as occurring in either 1903 or 1902. Any references to his death occurring in 1901 seem to be in error since he placed 3rd at the World Championships in 1902.</ref> 8...<ref group = "Note">The June 18 date seems to be the date of the accident. Dangla apparently lingered in a coma before dying of his injuries on June 24. ''See'' "ATHLETICS(Note by Amateur)".</ref> 10...<ref group ="Note">The accident took place on November 14, Brecy died on November 25 after lingering for 11 days.</ref> 11...<ref group = "Note">At least one commentator has a different date of death - 18 October 1908. See ''Opgevouwen op zijn fietsje de dood tegemoet ("Folded to death on his bike")''.</ref> 15...<ref group = "Note">Per ''Cycling Archives'', this race is also known as the "Inter Clubs Championship" and took place in Uccle, Belgium.</ref> 16...<ref group = "Note">When Walter Rutt (the former world champion) wrote to the "American Bicyclist and Motorcyclist(Volume 71)" published in 1950, he referred to this race not as the actual Six-Day Race but as a 'team race that was run before' it and that this team race was of a 'A Thousand Laps'(150 km) variety.</ref> 17...<ref group = "Note">There were two Berlin Six-Days run in 1951. Van Beek died while racing the March 1951 Berlin Six-Day and Mirke died during the December Six-Day.</ref> 18...<ref group = "Note">Metze's month of death is variously reported as being either in May(Velo Gotha) or in July.(www.cyclingarchives.com)</ref> 20...<ref group = "Note">Jim Taylor was a fellow cyclist riding in the Tour and was also hit by the bus that killed Mockridge.</ref> 21...<ref group = "Note">The circumstances surrounding Simpson's death were controversial. The autopsy report said that drugs (amphetamines) were found in his system but judged the cause of death as being a combination of heat-stroke, oxygen depletion and physical exertion. Notwithstanding the drugs in his system the temperature that day was at least 42 degrees Celsius and the fact that Tour officials limited riders to two bottles of water a day was most probably a contributing factor.</ref> 22...<ref group = "Note">Wilcockson refers to the race as "a kermesse race at Retié".</ref> 26...<ref group = "Note">Espinosa's accident occurred during a team time trial ("el Criterium de Fuenlabrada") for the Fuenlabrada race, not the race itself.</ref> 27...<ref group = "Note">The date of McLean's death is reported as both September 3 (The World almanac) and as "early today" September 9 or 10th (News from the Outside World).</ref> How to fix things at List of cycling... If you have time some feedback please I am thinking of nominating List of cyclists with a cycling-related death for FLC sometime this fall. I've never nominated a List for FL before so if you could take a quick look to see if there's anything obvious that jumps out as being WRONG it would be very helpful. Just for a reference, this is what the List looked like when I first happened upon it back in July 2010. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 21:36, 18 August 2019 (UTC) @Shearonink: points from a quick skim: "and since 1994 a number of professionals have been killed in accidents with motorized vehicles while training on public roads." - given that presumably this happened before 1994 as well, this reads strangely The "Cyclists who died due to a race" / "Professionals who died during training and other cycling related deaths" section titles are overly verbose, and duplicate the table headers The name field is sorting by first name, not last name- consider the {{sortname}} template The 85% text size thing is a bit odd; especially since for me usually the thing that's stretching the rows is the image, not too much text in the notes field You use "&" a lot in the notes, which should be written out Notes field is inconsistent on using full sentences, and whether or not fragments get a period at the end You're going to need to justify why the first section gets a table but the "not in a race" deaths don't Some of your notes seem to be trying to imply a source; you'd be better off just putting a reference in them (there's a couple ways, but easiest is to switch to using the {{efn}} template, and then you can just stick a ref tag in the note Some of your citations are wonky and I'd recommend looking through them all- e.g. "Møller, Pages 467-468", which should be "Møller, pp, 467–468" to start with but also needs the full book or whatever listed because you don't have a sources section for that to be referring to. Also e.g. "Der deutsche Radfahrer, 23. März 1937", which has the same issue plus a non-standard (and non-English) date format. --PresN 03:06, 19 August 2019 (UTC) Thanks, appreciate your comments. Have already corrected some of the issues, will work my way through the others as I can. Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 03:33, 19 August 2019 (UTC) Question re: the sorting by last names...does that mean all the 120+ names in the table will have to be converted from their present plain state into "sortable by last name"? For instance Will the plain name within its table cell of Pierre Froget have to be converted to {{sortname|Pierre|Froget}} (and so on...)? Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 07:12, 19 August 2019 (UTC) @Shearonink: Yes, it would- 120 is a lot, but it should be fairly quick if you just run down the list adding "{{sortname|" to the front, and then the pipe, and then the closing }}. --PresN 14:31, 19 August 2019 (UTC) Ah thanks - just wanted to make sure. I didn't used to be a coder of any stripe, so these types of things are not intuitive for me and I have to ask lots of questions to make sure I understand. Wanted to mention the actual different sections and the titles of the sections have been discussed on the talk page - here, here, and here - these latest versions are the best we could come up with at the time. I'll try to think of some better ideas and propose them on the talkpage. About the sort-name code...there are several names linked to their associated En.WP articles plus two names linked to German WP articles (Louis Mettling & Ernst Feja). If I run into issues getting the sort-coding to stick I will be coming back here and asking about how to do that. Thanks again, Shearonink (talk) 15:38, 19 August 2019 (UTC) I figured out the coding for the names without articles (and with!) but I am going to need an example of what to do for names that are linked to other Wikipedias - I'd like to take care of the coding myself, that's the only way I'll learn so if you know the right way to do the sortname thing for Louis Mettling ([[:de:Louis Mettling|Louis Mettling]]) & Ernst Feja ([[:de:Ernst Feja|Ernst Feja]]) that would be a big help. Thx, Shearonink (talk) 17:34, 19 August 2019 (UTC) The way sortname works in the backend is table cell wikitext that looks kind of like: | data-sort-value="Last, First" | First Last I personally prefer this way as it makes it clear that's what is going on underneath the hood, but it does add some duplication. In the case of foreign wikis, you might do something like the following, taking the above as inspiration, to work around not-great support in the template: | data-sort-value="Last, First" | {{ill|First Last|lang_code}}. {{ill}} for documentation of the template invoked there. --Izno (talk) 02:57, 20 August 2019 (UTC) Yes, so, where you have | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| [[:de:Louis Mettling|Louis Mettling]] || Track cyclist, change it to | scope="row" style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="Mettling, Louis"| [[:de:Louis Mettling|Louis Mettling]] || Track cyclist (or | scope="row" style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="Mettling, Louis"| {{ill|Louis Mettling|de}} || Track cyclist, per Izno's suggestion. --PresN 04:47, 20 August 2019 (UTC) Yay! Worked like a charm - thanks everybody. Shearonink (talk) 14:42, 20 August 2019 (UTC) Ok, now I have another sortname question... the entry now reads | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| {{nowrap|Camille Danguillaume}}|| How do I use the sortname on this entry and maintain the nowrap for the name in the visible table? Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 14:56, 20 August 2019 (UTC) @Shearonink: Easiest way: Help:Table#Nowrap: "To keep an entire column from wrapping, use style="white-space: nowrap;" in a non-header cell on the longest/widest cell to affect the entire column." Looks like it also works to just make the nowrap template be on the outside of the sortname template: {{nowrap|{{sortname|Camille|Danguillaume}}}} --PresN 15:12, 20 August 2019 (UTC) Finished all the 120+ sortnames. Thanks for all your help everyone - cheers! Shearonink (talk) 16:45, 20 August 2019 (UTC) PresN - I think I've fixed many of the issues you pointed out. "and since 1994 a number of professionals have been killed in accidents with motorized vehicles while training on public roads." - given that presumably this happened before 1994 as well, this reads strangely. Edited this section, adjusted the wording The "Cyclists who died due to a race" / "Professionals who died during training and other cycling related deaths" section titles are overly verbose, and duplicate the table headers. Adjusted this wording The name field is sorting by first name, not last name- consider the {{sortname}} template. Yeah. This is SO fixed. The 85% text size thing is a bit odd; especially since for me usually the thing that's stretching the rows is the image, not too much text in the notes field. Bumped up to 95% You use "&" a lot in the notes, which should be written out. I think I've fixed most of these. Notes field is inconsistent on using full sentences, and whether or not fragments get a period at the end. -->> Still working on this. You're going to need to justify why the first section gets a table but the "not in a race" deaths don't. -->> I've been thinking about this. Some of your notes seem to be trying to imply a source; you'd be better off just putting a reference in them (there's a couple ways, but easiest is to switch to using the {{efn}} template, and then you can just stick a ref tag in the note -->> Still working on this. Some of your citations are wonky and I'd recommend looking through them all- e.g. "Møller, Pages 467-468", which should be "Møller, pp, 467–468" to start with but also needs the full book or whatever listed because you don't have a sources section for that to be referring to. Also e.g. "Der deutsche Radfahrer, 23. März 1937", which has the same issue plus a non-standard (and non-English) date format. -- -->> Still working on this. Just waiting on some additional info from a collaborator with access to early 20th Century German-language references (hoping for some photos of some of the early cyclists, plus some specific referencing. If there's anything else that screams WRONG in the present version, please let me know. Thanks again, really appreciate all the help. Shearonink (talk) 21:51, 20 August 2019 (UTC) How to get at the URL info in an Introduction to a book, with pages that are roman numerals https://books.google.com/books?id=0-IUC00guXEC&pg=PR17#v=onepage&q&f=false mLive article about Bath School disaster PHOTOS from MICHIGAN (STATE?) HISTORICAL ARCHIVES 22 things you may not have known about the 1927 Bath school massacre by Julie Mack | jmack1@mlive.com article dated May 10, 2017 April 2019 article Revisiting the 1927 Bath School Disaster https://federalcourthistoricaledmi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/201302-Court-Legacy-February-2013.pdf A modern analysis of a historical pediatric disaster: the 1927 Bath school bombing https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20471035 Okemos High School Alumni Website Write-up about Bath, lots of sources: http://www.okemosalumni.org/000/4/8/8/29884/userfiles/file/The%20Story%20of%20Bath%20by%20Sherrie%20Paty%20%2766%20edited.pdf Pertinent links for BSD FAC WP:Media copyright questions Discussion on Nikkimaria's talk page Discussion on Sandy Georgia's talk page Review on Talk:Bath School disaster Pre-FAC comments Bath School disaster TFA nom worksheet {{subst:TFAR nom | article = {{subst:Bath School disaster}} | blurb = The '''Bath School disaster''' was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by [[Andrew Kehoe]] on May{{nbs}}18, 1927, in [[Bath Township, Michigan]]. The attacks killed 38 [[elementary school]]children and 6 adults, and injured at least 58 other people. On the morning of May 18 - having previously murdered his wife at their farm - Kehoe set off almost simultaneous explosions at his home and at the Bath Consolidated School. His explosives destroyed the farm's buildings and ripped through the north wing of the Bath Consolidated School building. As rescuers began working at the school, Kehoe drove up to the schoolyard and detonated [[dynamite]] inside his [[Fragmentation (weaponry)|shrapnel]]-filled truck. The truck explosion killed Kehoe and several bystanders. During the rescue and recovery efforts, searchers discovered an additional 500 [[Pound (mass)|pounds]] (230 kg) of unexploded dynamite and [[pyrotol]] in the south wing of the school that was set to explode at the same time as the initial explosions in the north wing; Kehoe had apparently intended to destroy the entire school and kill everyone in it. | image = Bath School disaster showing front of school.png | caption = Front view of the Bath School building after the bombing | promoted = March 29, 2020 | editors = {{u|Shearonink}} | recents = No recent similar articles that I could find | reasons = The anniversary date of the disaster is May 18. This is my first FA, so it would be my first FA to appear at TFA }} ADDITIONAL SOURCE FOR list of cylists: https://books.google.com/books?id=o3OuBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA67#v=onepage&q&f=false SJW worksheet https://fee.org/articles/how-the-term-social-justice-warrior-became-an-insult/ https://www.flowjournal.org/2018/04/alt-right-bogeyman/ https://indigo.uic.edu/articles/Attack_of_the_50-foot_social_justice_warrior_the_discursive_construction_of_SJW_memes_as_the_monstrous_feminine/10766381/1 https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/05/05/what-happened-after-my-13-year-old-son-joined-the-alt-right/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2018.1447333?scroll=top&needAccess=true https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Far_Right_in_Contemporary_Australia/79KiDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=social+justice+warrior+gamergate+conservative&pg=PA133&printsec=frontcover https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/lane-davis-ralph-retort-seattle4truth-alt-right Cycling stuff https://stuyfssportverhalen.com/?tag=fatal-accidents-in-cycling WORD COUNT Word Count tool ->>> http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/charcount.shtml BRILLIANT Newslinger I have no interest in going in circles, we can look at policy. WP:CONTEXTMATTERS suggests to me that a RS's in house legal department making clarifications about the nature of their own content would be a reliable source in the context of the content in question. Can you think of a better source for whether or not something an RS said is an opinion or a fact, than a RS's own in house legal dept explicitly answering that, given that the issue of fact vs opinion is a significant aspect of law?Sandman9083 (talk) 22:20, 17 November 2020 (UTC) That's an incorrect application of WP:CONTEXTMATTERS. The correct application is to recognize that although The New York Times (RSP entry) is generally reliable, statements made by its legal counsel (not its journalists) are unreliable because they are similar to press releases and "lack meaningful editorial oversight, or have an apparent conflict of interest", as described in the questionable sources policy. It is fruitless to use a questionable source to attempt to discredit high-quality academic sources. Since the consensus of factual coverage in reliable sources, including academic sources and news coverage, is that Project Veritas edited videos to mislead its viewers, that is a factual claim, and not an opinion. The vast majority of editors on this talk page have found your arguments unconvincing, and your best course of action would be to – as you say – "take a step back", respect the consensus here, and refrain from bludgeoning the process any further. — Newslinger talk 01:44, 18 November 2020 (UTC) I want to add a time-stamp to a subst thingy I made a while ago but (From Wikipedia:Village pump (technical), see this edit as pertains to User:Shearonink/Holiday Here's the page: User:Shearonink/Holiday. I created this "Card" 3 years ago but was looking at it today prior to starting to send it out and I realized - eek! - that there is no time-stamp. I am somewhat tech-averse, so I do not understand how to add a time-stamp (heh, or even if it is possible). If some of you tech experts could take a look at the code and tell me how to fix it I'd appreciate that. PLEASE do not go ahead and just fix it yourself. I know that is probably easier but if I don't do it myself in the future I won't understand how to fix similar situations. Thanks & Cheers! Shearonink (talk) 19:11, 15 December 2020 (UTC) @Shearonink: I'm assuming you are going to subst: this places, if so you can add a line that is something like this: ~~<noinclude></noinclude>~~<noinclude></noinclude>~. There are other ways too, but that should be easy to understand (test it in your sandbox). — xaosflux Talk 19:19, 15 December 2020 (UTC) Oh my word Xaosflux, I knew someone around here would have the answer. THANK YOU, you are awesome, I will start testing away! Cheers! Shearonink (talk) 20:13, 15 December 2020 (UTC) @Shearonink: Three tildes (~~<noinclude></noinclude>~) give you your signature without timestamp: — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) Four tildes (~~<noinclude></noinclude>~~) give you your signature with timestamp (as usual): — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 00:04, 16 December 2020 (UTC) Five tildes (~~<noinclude></noinclude>~~<noinclude></noinclude>~) give you a timestamp without signature (as Xaosflux showed): 00:04, 16 December 2020 (UTC) The noinclude code prevents the tildes from being parsed unless the page is substituted. There's also interesting stuff on mw:Help:Magic words but you probably won't need it for now: {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTMONTHNAME}} is here and {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTYEAR}} was very.. special? Greetings from {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>REVISIONUSER}}. December is here and 2020 was very.. special? Greetings from Alexis Jazz. But maybe if you want to customize stuff. Here the "includeonly" will result in the magic words being substituted when you substitute the page, but not when saving the page. (because the substitution happens only when the page is included on another page) — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 00:04, 16 December 2020 (UTC) @Shearonink: Instead of "the New Year 2021 will be an improvement upon the old of 2020" you could say "the New Year '''{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>#expr: {{CURRENTYEAR}} + 1 }}''' will be an improvement upon the old of {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTYEAR}}" as 1 + 1 is 2. Or with an exception for January (for slightly late wishes for a good new year), it could be written as "the New Year '''{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>#ifeq:{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTMONTH}}|01|{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTYEAR}}|{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>#expr: {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTYEAR}} + 1 }}}}''' will be an improvement upon the old of {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>#ifeq:{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTMONTH}}|01|{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>#expr: {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTYEAR}} - 1 }}|{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTYEAR}}}}". Sure it's easier to just update it manually every year, but your card could live on forever! — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 14:10, 16 December 2020 (UTC) Sources for Box Office Poison In New York column (by George Ross), Salinas Morning Post, May 21, 1928, Page 4, Newspapers.com San Francisco Examiner, May 5, 1938, Page 10, Newspapers.com Filter thingy https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=1120 (..sneed->chuck) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/1120 Harv errors stuff User Scripts archive page Interesting editor interaction COPYRIGHT Earwig Copyvio Tool https://copyvios.toolforge.org/ Zapruder book ebook linkage Done Checkmark {{done}} SHORT DESCRIPTION SHORT DESC So, your Wikipedia:Shortdesc helper edits... I noticed that you're adjusting and fixing up a lot of short descriptions using Wikipedia:Shortdesc helper. How do you find all these articles to fix up? Is there an automated process or do you just start looking in general at Wikipedia articles? Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 14:51, 19 April 2022 (UTC) @Shearonink: I monitor categories such as Category:Pages_using_short_description_with_unknown_parameters, Category:Pages with lower-case short description and Category:Articles with long short description which report "errors". Also, whenever I have time, I pick pages at random from Search for articles without a short description (skipping DAB pages). See also my Tidying page — GhostInTheMachine talk to me 15:23, 19 April 2022 (UTC) Ah thanks, appreciate the info. Shearonink (talk) 15:52, 19 April 2022 (UTC) Arranged by Montrose Arranged by Montrose - is this article correct? it is very confusing... Andrew Jackson... Was wondering myself about the "and Jackson received schooling from two nearby priests" (especially that "nearby priests" part...) so I went hunting for when it was added to the article. It's been present in the Jackson article since April 2017 when it was added with this edit [2]. Does Wilentz's 2005 biography say *anything* specifically about Jackson's early schooling? If he did that could certainly be of interest... The text & source are as follows: Jackson's father died in an accident in February 1767 at the age of 29, three weeks before his son Andrew was born in the Waxhaws area. Jackson, his mother, and his brothers lived with Jackson's aunt and uncle in the Waxhaws region, and Jackson received schooling from two nearby priests. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 20:34, 17 May 2022 (UTC) The "two priests" part jumped out at me, too. Obviously that edit was made by a child or an ignoramus with no concept of the time and the place where Jackson grew up. In a small, tightly-knit, very Presbyterian community, sending a child to two priests - presumably Catholic - would have been like sending him to the devil. I followed the link within the source link to the Wilentz biography, which on page 16 says the young Jackson was sent to two clergymen - a very different thing! In the following paragraph, however, Wilentz says he was sent to a "religious academy" but does not name it or say where it was. On page 177, a timeline of "Milestones" gives the names of two men who ran schools (plural) that Jackson attended in 1775-1780. It is not certain that these are the two clergymen mentioned before. All this was too vague and nebulous for me, so I simply deleted the false claim. If you'd like to take the time to stitch these fragments into the wikiarticle, by all means go ahead. I was just there to find out his birth and death dates, really. Thanks for taking an interest. Textorus (talk) 02:36, 18 May 2022 (UTC) I didn't see this nifty little reply link until I'd already replied to you on my talk page. Please take a look over there. Textorus (talk) 02:40, 18 May 2022 (UTC) Yeah, re the "priests" - made no sense. I do not have access to the Wilentz book. Can you put the names of those two men here? I can see if I can figure out if those guys are the two clergymen or not...little puzzles fascinate me lol, maybe I'll stitch it all back in at some point. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 14:59, 18 May 2022 (UTC) The link within a link is footnote 9 in paragraph 2 of the Early life section, but I'll save you a step: just go to https://books.google.com/books?id=1GhZl6KhM4cC&pg=PP8. Textorus (talk) 17:34, 18 May 2022 (UTC) Thanks for the link. Actually Wilentz isn't much help at all on the specifics but at least I have found some names in other sources (TG we get jstor access around here now) - in Vol. 7, No. 1, MARCH, 1948 Tennessee Historical Quarterly... James White Stephenson(school on the Catabaw, prominent Pres. clergyman), Professor Branch, Dr./Mr. William Humphries (school at Waxhaw Church), Reverend Francis Cummins (prominent Pres. clergyman, classical boarding school), Robert M'Culloch (Jackson's last school studies occurred with a Mr. M'Culloch in an area of North Carolina called "the New Acquisition", happened after Jackson returned home after the Rev War and before he studied law - source The Complete Memoirs of Andrew Jackson: Seventh President of the United States : Containing a Full Account of His Military Life and Achievements, with His Career as President by John Henry Eaton, 1878 Edition). Shearonink (talk) 18:35, 18 May 2022 (UTC) Surveying article ideas and references etc. John Savage (surveyor) Fairfax Line - https://books.google.com/books?id=2iMSAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Fairfax Stone Historical Monument State Park Professional Surveyor Magazine, Professional Surveyor April 2004 Volume 24 Number 4 History Corner: Robert Brooke, Father and Son, Surveyors of Virginia Mary M. Root, LS Penn–Calvert boundary dispute Wikidata stuff https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1090177 That supposed "Theodore" Jackson?...HAHAHAHAHAH ACTUAL November 1813 LETTER that Brands slightly misquotes... Page 444 CITATION - The Papers of Andrew Jackson, V. II, 1804-1813. Ed. Harold D. Moser and Sharon Macpherson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984. To Rachel Jackson Head quarters 10 Islands Cosa river Novbr. 4th. 1813 In the hurry of the moment I have but a moment to write you-I detached Genl John Coffee with part of his Brigade of Cavalry and mounted men to destroy the Creek Town Talus,hatchey, [1] he has executed this order in elegant stile leaving dead on the field one hundred & seventy six, and taking 80, prisoners, forty prisoners was left on the ground many of them wounded, others to take care of them-since writing the above Genl Coffee reports 1 80, found dead, and there is no doubt but 200 was killed [2] -I have here forty two added to the thirty two heretofore captured & sent on to Huntsville, in all 74-1 have been and is still badly supplied with provisions, as soon as I can get a supply will proceed on to the heart of the creek nation-Mr Alexander and Jack Donelson [3] were both in the action are safe & behaved like what I could wish & expected, all friends safe, Capt Hammond had 5 of his men wounded-all behaved bravely and as I could wish-I send on a little Indian boy[4] for Andrew to Huntsville-with a request to Colo. Pope to take care of him untill he is sent on-all his family is destroyed-he is about the age of Theodore [5] -In haste your affectionate Husband Andrew Jackson ALS, MH-H. 1. See AJ to John Coffee, November 2. 2. Coffee's losses were five killed and forty-one wounded. The victory at Tallushatchee was the first major blow to the hostile Creeks in upper Mississippi Territory. For details of the battle, see Coffee to AJ, November 4. 3. John ("Jack") Donelson (1787-1840), brother of Alexander, was a lieutenant in Coffee's cavalry brigade and commanded a company of mounted infantry at the Battle of New Orleans. In 1823 he married Edward Butler's daughter, Eliza, and settled near Florence, Ala. 4. Lyncoya (c1813-28), a Creek infant orphaned at the Battle of Tallushatchee, reached the Hermitage in May 1814. He remained in the Jackson household until his death. 5. Theodore (cl813-14) was probably another Indian child at the Hermitage. Jackson and Rachel mentioned his death in their letters of March 4 and 21, 1814 (DLC). THIS^^^letter is about LYNCOYA. Incorrect assertion not backed up by sources added here on January 20, 2012 by User:Rockgenre Revision as of 21:00, 20 January 2012 (edit) (undo) (thank) Rockgenre (talk | contribs) ->edit summary->(Jackson actually had another adopted American Indian son named Theodore.) The ACTUAL TEXT DOES NOT SAY THAT THEODORE WAS ADOPTED, the WP-editor mis-characterizes the source, the actual letter is above, Brands MISQUOTES Jackson and leaves a slight impression that this "Theodore" is somehow adopted. BRANDS says: "I send on a little boy for Andrew. All his family is destroyed. He is about the age of Theodore." but Brands then goes on to say: The young boy named Theodore had come to live at the Hermitage earlier, under circumstances lost to history. ... In Jackson's case, he pitied the Creek child—named Lyncoya—but he also wanted to provide Rachel another child and Andrew (and Theodore) a brother. All of the above is found on Page 198 of Brands' Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times. FEBRUARY 21st 1814 letter Page 35 To Rachel from Jackson say to my little darling Andrew, that his sweet papa will be home shortly, and that he sends him three sweet kisses-I have not heard whether Genl Coffee has taken on to him little Lyncoya-1 have got another Pett-given to me by the chief Jame Fife, that I intend for my other little Andrew [Jackson] Donelson and if I can a third I will give it to little Andrew [Jackson] Hutchings [2] My love I write you as often as time and convayences will permit, and I have a pleasing hope we will with the protection and permission of him who governs all, meet shortly-I wrote you a few days since, requesting you would send the copy of the secratary of wars letter and the copy I had enclosed to Genl Coffee of general Pinckneys letter which I directed to be sent on with my letter to you-To William B Lewis at Nashville 3-If you have not please to do it on the receipt of this, give my compliments to all friends and believe me affectionately yours, &c &c Andrew Jackson ALS, MoSHi (3-0883). 2. Donelson (1799-1871) and Hutchings (1811-41) were, respectively, Jackson's nephew and grandnephew. Hutchings became Jackson's ward after his father, John Hutchings, died in 1817. The Indian children were probably Theodore and Charley. 3. See AJ to Rachel Jackson, February 17, and, above, AJ to Coffee, February 17. “There Was Somebody Always Dying and Leaving Jackson as Guardian”: The Wards of Andrew Jackson by Rachel Meredith A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in History, with Concentration in Public History Middle Tennessee State University May 2013 Thesis Committee: Dr. Rebecca Conard, Chair Dr. Mary Hoffschwelle https://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/443f7089-2583-469f-9f7e-543c01037223/content https://web.archive.org/web/20220524065354/https://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/443f7089-2583-469f-9f7e-543c01037223/content Page 44 Charley was a Creek Indian child whom Jackson received from James Fife, and gave to Andrew Jr. in 1814. Page 44-45 There is also evidence that another Indian child was already residing at the Hermitage when Lyncoya arrived. This child, Theodore, is briefly mentioned in a few letters. When Jackson was estimating Lyncoya’s age to Rachel, he said that he was about Theodore’s age. It is unclear what happened to Charley and Theodore. Personally, sounds like a recipe for disaster. Lyncoya was a small child, no one knows exactly how old but maybe a toddler and Andrea jackson jr was born in 1809 so Jr was around 5 or 6 when Lyncoya showed up...a 5 or 6 year old expected to have a baby/toddler as a companion/friend? An aside...odd to me that Jackson called them "petts" in his letters. James Fife aka Tuskena Hutka (Page 21, Volume III, Footnote by Editors) was a Creek allied with Jackson who gave Jackson another native child, Charly/Charley (Junior refers to "Charly" in his letter to his father dated APRIL 8, 1814 Lyncoya wasn't there until after April 1814, per page 60, Volume III Charley/Charly was already there, he had arrived before Lyncoya, per page 60 Volume III, letter from Junior to Jackson charly/charley was given to Jackson from James Fifrean indian guide or chief Page 59 of Volume III, Rachel's letter to Jackson, dated April 7, 1814, says your Little Andrew is well Is much pleased with his Charley CITATION: The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Vol. III, 1814-1815. Ed. Harold D. Moser, David R. Hoth, Sharon Macpherson, John H. Reinbold. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991, page 59, Page 60 CHARLY/CHARLEY PAGE 60, VOLUME III From Andrew Jackson, Jr. Aprile the 8 [18 14] My Dear Father no one will fetch my Lyncoia I have a thought of going my self for him I like Charly but he will not mind me my mother thinks highly of his understanding she treats him as well as aney purson on Earth Could-write when you think you will be on your returne march and I will Come and Hail you welcome oh the Sweete anticipation of the Long wished for period of it oreflows my soule I must quit the subject for the present-adieue my kindest and Dearest of friends Andrew Jackson j uner THEODORE was already there before Lyncoya, per Jackson's letter to Rachel, Page 444 Volume II. VOLUME III, 1814-1815:https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=utk_jackson VOLUME II, 1804-1813:https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=utk_jackson https://books.google.com/books?id=_Z0nDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91 The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies, edited by Tim Alan Garrison & Greg O'Brien, 2017, Chapter 5 - Andrew Jackson's Indian Son: Native Captives and American Empire by Christina Snyder https://history.la.psu.edu/directory/christina-snyder/ PhD, McCabe Greer Professor of the American Civil War Era at PennState, extensively published books, articles, essays http://npshistory.com/publications/hobe/braund-2017.pdf - bibliography, mentions: December 29, 1813. Andrew Jackson to Rachel Jackson. In this letter, Jackson inquires if Lyncoya, (the infant taken at Tallushatchee) had arrived at the Hermitage and instructs his wife to "Keep Lyncoya in the house," an indication that Jackson did not want him housed with his African American slaves. (2:516) VOLUME III To Rachel Jackson Head quarters Fort Strother Decbr 29th. 1813 . ½ past 11 oclock at night Please write me how my little andrew [is] and whether, his little Indian Lyncoya was taken to him by Major Whyte 3 of Gallatine-if he has got him how & what he thinks of him-Keep Lyncoya in the house-h NPS: http://npshistory.com/publications/hobe/braund-2017.pdf The African American Experience and the Creek War, 1813-14: An Annotated Bibliography Task Agreement NumberP16AC01696 Under Cooperative Agreement Number P13AC00443 Between The United States Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service Horseshoe Bend National Military Park and Auburn University August 8, 2017 Report Prepared By Kathryn H. Braund Hollifield Professor of Southern History Auburn University New/different resource for Bath School article UGA PhD dissertation 2019 & wayback saved version MERGE How to do an article merge - from MelanieN's user talk ...Need some advice/help re: a merge or a re-direct or....? between Bath School disaster & Bath Consolidated School... As an admin who has edited "Bath School disaster", I need some advice re: Wiki-procedures... In May a "merge from" template was placed at Bath School disaster to merge content from Bath Consolidated School into the main article. The discussion so far at Talk:Bath School disaster#Proposed merge of Bath Consolidated School into Bath School disaster has been all in favor. I don't disagree with the template but... In looking over the School article it seems that there is nothing much there different from the main article so a true merge doesn't seem necessary. I've suggested a redirect but am not sure how to best accomplish it (for instance, I don't want to mistakenly strand the Consolidated School's talk page and so on). If you could take a look under the hood and mentor me through the process I'd be happy to take care of it. Yeah, I know it's kind of crazy that I don't know how to do it already but I'm like a cross between toddler around WP, yelling "ME DO!" while simultaneously being afraid I'll Wiki-break something in the process. (FYI - I've also asked for help from one other experienced editor who edited the article somewhat semi-recently on their talk page, figuring maybe one of you will be able to respond shortly with advice.) Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 16:19, 4 June 2022 (UTC) Hello, Shearonink, and thanks for the note. I took a look at the Merge Request and posted a comment agreeing that such a merge should be carried out. I will be happy to advise you how to do it. You will be able to carry it out in full; there is nothing there that calls for admin tools. And you don't strike me as a toddler, with your long experience here! You could look at this advice for help. Also see Wikipedia:WikiProject Merge. Basically, here is what I advise: First, look at the information at the school article and compare it to the information about the school at the disaster article. If there is any significant information missing, copy it and any supporting references into the disaster article, and note in your edit summary that the information is copied from the school article. The format I use for the edit summary is something like this: "Material copied from Bath Consolidated School, see that article's history for attribution." Next, replace the entire content of the school article with a redirect notice to Bath School disaster, and add the template {{Template:R from merge}}. In your edit summary mention/link to the merge discussion. Then go to the school article's talk page, and replace the entire content with a redirect notice to Talk:Bath School disaster and template as above, and mention the merge discussion in your edit summary. Remove the "merge to" template from the disaster article, and comment at the Merge Request discussion that you have carried out the merge. The existing Pending Change protection at the disaster article will remain in place. Have fun! I'm not going to be around for the next 24 hours so if you get stuck, consult the other person! 0;-D -- MelanieN (talk) 17:49, 4 June 2022 (UTC) Thank you for all this advice. I'm going to take a stab at it now...wish me luck! Shearonink (talk) 18:12, 4 June 2022 (UTC)  Done Feel free to check it all out, I don't think there are any dangling bits of code or orphaned pages... Thanks again. I must say, for me it was much easier to follow your step-by-steps than some of the "Help" pages. Shearonink (talk) 22:09, 4 June 2022 (UTC) Nice work, Shearonink. Just one thing: although you added the appropriate template to the talk page and left the wikiprojects in place, you forgot to actually redirect the school talk page to the disaster talk page. I did that just now, although to tell you the truth I don't know if it is actually required. I just don't like to leave the talk page of a redirect behind; seems like kind of an orphan. -- MelanieN (talk) 23:57, 5 June 2022 (UTC) Ah...yeah, I wasn't sure if the School old talk page had to leave. Or not. Thanks for the clean-up on Aisle 5. Shearonink (talk) 02:11, 6 June 2022 (UTC) To look under the hood at how this all turned out: See Bath School disaster edit See edit history and Talk:Bath Consolidated School See edit history and Bath Consolidated School Headrights Surveying Virginia Review: Headrights and Head Counts: A Review Article Reviewed Work: White, Red, and Black: The Seventeenth-Century Virginian by Wesley Frank Craven Review by: Edmund S. 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Bot adds publication dates to undated material Status new bug Reported by Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes 21:17, 27 January 2023 (UTC) What happens The bot's been adding and populating a date= parameter for sources with no listed publication date. There is no indication as to where the bot gets these dates from and no reason to think that they're accurate. What should happen The bot shouldn't add a publication date for sources that don't have one listed. Relevant diffs/links [3], [4] We can't proceed until Feedback from maintainers These dates are stated in the web pages' HTML. You can check with Ctrl-U or other method to view source in your browser. Nemo 21:29, 27 January 2023 (UTC) The first one is coming from one of the items in the HTML source (Ctrl + U in Firefox): <meta property="og:updated_time" content="2019-06-17T16:47:08-04:00" /> <meta property="article:published_time" content="2018-07-17T11:12:23-04:00" /> <meta property="article:modified_time" content="2019-06-17T16:47:08-04:00" /> <meta name="dcterms.date" content="2018-07-17T11:12-04:00" /> The second one has similar: <meta property="article:published_time" content="2017-01-25T14:57:52-05:00" /> <meta property="article:modified_time" content="2022-05-04T10:25:57-04:00" /> (The bot should probably prefer the modified_time/updated_time if it is the source responsible, and if it's getting it from Citoid or other ext service maybe an upstream notification would be valuable.) This metadata is deliberately in that location for the purpose of bots and other systems. Izno (talk) 21:31, 27 January 2023 (UTC) Hmmm. Well, this is interesting to me. Chiming in here as the person who originally added the cites to these articles. The dates that the Bot is adding to the cites would appear to be incorrect in that they are not published on the page with the source material. Also, the date that the Bot is finding would appear to be the date that the material was published onto the web but it might not be the actual date the material was written or the date that the material was published in print. In the case of the Archipedia material on the Ramsdell, that information seems to have originally been published in print in 2012. In any case, is a researcher/WP-editor expected or supposed to always to look up the html dates if material is undated on the page? Shearonink (talk) 16:57, 28 January 2023 (UTC) I usually check the date in the HTML if it's not stated, but one can be forgiven for not doing so. The date in {{cite web}} is usually the date of the web page itself. If the date of original publication of the work carried by the web page has some significance, you can instead use {{cite publication}} or other cite template with the date of the work, indicating that the URL is just one representation. For the sake of WP:RS, I'd expect editors to know whether they're citing a website or some publication of which the website provides a copy, and ideally they'd use citation templates accordingly, but such details can be addressed if/when confusion arises. Nemo 17:21, 28 January 2023 (UTC) I try to be SO scrupulous and careful when citing whatever reference... Does that "Control-U" thingy work with all laptops? (Yay yet another parameter to remember when info or a webpage "appears" to be undated...) I'd never heard about being able to see the date in the html before. Is it something that only works with PCs or Macs/whatever?... Shearonink (talk) 17:42, 28 January 2023 (UTC) On Windows in Firefox: Ctrl + U is how Firefox does it. It should work in other browsers but the specific key combo may be different. A second way: if you right-click on a page, also provides "View page source". The third way is to open console, which is F12 or also right click and select inspect. Other browsers and platforms may have a slightly different way to access the page source. Izno (talk) 18:40, 28 January 2023 (UTC) There is no requirement to hunt down information in the page source, it is simply another way to get the date usually since indeed many pages don't have a displayed date (but of course they all have a publication date). I would suggest leaving the dates if Citation bot adds one, so long as you can verify at least in the page source that the date didn't spontaneously poof into thin air. Izno (talk) 18:47, 28 January 2023 (UTC) Not a question about Citation bot but I am trying to understand the archiving of this particular page... ClueBot III always confuses me, I usually use Lowercase sigmabot III. Anyway, in the archiving set-up for this page it states: {{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis |archiveprefix=User talk:Citation bot/Archive |format= %%i |maxarchsize=150000 |minarchthreads=1 |minkeepthreads=4 |age=2160000 So...what exactly does the age=2160000 mean? At Template:Setup cluebot archiving it states that |age= How many days old a thread should be before archiving. Default: 90 But that obviously isn't the case because of the 2160000...I've tried looking everywhere around here so I can understand this but am having no luck. If someone would post what the "age=" parameters are and where I can find an easy-to-understand explanation that would be awesome. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 22:53, 29 January 2023 (UTC) @Shearonink: According to User:ClueBot_III/ArchiveThis, the |age= parameter is "the number of hours a thread can go without a reply before it should be archived". GoingBatty (talk) 23:58, 29 January 2023 (UTC) Ok, yes, I kind of know what is supposed to happen but if that is true then 2160000 hours = 9000 days. And that isn't the archiving at this page, is it? The last 2 times ClueBot III archived this page was today when the bot archived a post that was posted earlier today and then the bot archived a post from January 26th...I just don't understand when and why the bot is archiving and the code that is posted way up there at the top...Teach me your ways O Wiki Mavens & Coders... Shearonink (talk) 02:58, 30 January 2023 (UTC) |archivenow= is the key. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 03:09, 30 January 2023 (UTC) As AMWNP implies, you can set at least ClueBot up to archive based on wikitext patterns. (I daren't put the specifics in this section lest the bot archive it. :) Izno (talk) 03:27, 30 January 2023 (UTC) AH! THANK YOU...gawd it was driving me crazy!!! I knew I was missing *something*. Geebus... Shearonink (talk) 03:40, 30 January 2023 (UTC) Such as  Not a bug Now we wait. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:30, 30 January 2023 (UTC) Archiving not working Talk page archive problems with archiving User:MiszaBot/config House of Hesse jewel theft https://www.nationalww2museum.org/search?keys=The+Hesse+Heist Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany By Jonathan Petropoulos https://books.google.com/books?id=EuU4PhMmt9kC&pg=PR4&dq=Petropoulos,+Jonathan,+Royals+and+the+Reich,+Oxford+University+Press&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjz09-UrK3_AhVOMlkFHQAVBTcQuwV6BAgCEAc#v=snippet&q=blunt&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=B3w7DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=DIL19510802.2.3&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN---------- publication: The Army Lawyer/Issue 1 2019, Section or Chapter: Lore of the Corps, Title: The German Job - Theft of Hesse Jewels Led to High Profile Courts-Martial by Fred L. 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About a conversation a little over a year ago

Greetings, back in late 2023 I and you had a conversation on SandyGeorgia's talk page about our article Rupperswil murder case (which I see is now back to posting the full name of the perpetrator), where you mentioned that articles on such crimes tend to draw particular people. I just read back on that conversation and remembered that Scott Erskine has a rather detailed description of the crime scene, is that what you meant? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 12:54, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Well... articles about murders, serial killers, and other violent crimes tend to often attract fans of such crimes and fans of the perpetrators. Sometimes these folks seem to luxuriate in the details, they linger over the timeline and the acts... I am only interested in the humanity involved, that we not forget that the victims and the survivors were and are real people, someone's neighbor, relative, loved one. I couldn't care less about the known/proven perpetrators - they did the crime, they can rot in the ash heap of history for all I care. It's sad we know the perpetrators' names and not the victims... As to the details...when one wades through the information on a crime - my personal example is Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, it can be overwhelming, and emotionally wearing. The bare information about the event is terrible - all those dead children, the brave teachers, the timeline of the acts - and then to have to deal with the POV-pushers, the Alex Jones cultists? that is another layer of ick. If one deals with such an article, I think it is possibel to get a type of secondary PTSD, so it's good to take a break, it's good to be careful with one's self.

I haven't read the Scott Erskine article and I don't want to, but if the information has appeared in a reliable source and it's verifiable/factual well then, Wikipedia is not censored and all that. Would I include all the details if I were crafting that article? Maybe not, it would seem somewhat lurid to me but it's not up to me, it's up to the editorial consensus of the people working on that article.

Hope I answered your question. - Shearonink (talk) 14:28, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Currently, the lurid details aren't referenced or so it seems like. I guess that court news or the judgment might have that information, but I am not overly keen to go and check. JoJo Eumerus mobile (main talk) 16:21, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Yeah...more recent crimes tend to have a lot of details that sometimes I just don't want to know. I know that reading some of the details could affect my state of mind...I have to protect myself. When editing one doesn't have to include *everything* on a subject. It's ok to not go hunting for all the events on the timeline, like autopsies and crime photos etc. I remember years ago seeing (claimed) photos or very detailed pencil drawings of JFK's autopsy on some TV show...quite unsettling & horrifying. - Shearonink (talk) 17:07, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Some of the references are broken. I did look at the court judgment after all and it has some of that lurid information, though. In Switzerland, we don't publish primary court rulings so that information wouldn't be public here. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:28, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Talk: Donald Trump lead sentence discussion

Hi Shearonink,

I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to reach out about a consensus debate currently happening on Donald Trump’s page, as it mirrors a similar situation we encountered during Joe Biden’s presidency. Four years ago, we agreed on a consensus to keep the lead sentence format, which I believe was both fair and sensible. Specifically, the line for Joe Biden was: "...who has been the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021." Looking back, I see that you were in favor of maintaining this as the status quo. Talk:Joe Biden/Archive 15#RfC: "serving as" vs. "is".

I believe we should apply this same structure to Donald Trump’s page, just as we did for Joe Biden and Barack Obama before him, to ensure consistency and clarity. This format clearly conveys the order ("47th"), incumbency ("current"), and start date ("since 2025"), which helps maintain uniformity across presidential biographies.

Given your involvement and support in that earlier consensus, your insights would be incredibly valuable in the current discussion. It’s important that we uphold the same standards regardless of the officeholder, and I’d appreciate it if you could weigh in, share your thoughts, and cast a vote. Here is the current discussion and vote underway: Talk:Donald Trump, Superseding consensus #50, sentences 1 and 2

Thanks a lot, and I hope you’ll consider contributing. TimeToFixThis (talk) 07:35, 29 January 2025 (UTC)