Wikipedia:Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article
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This page in a nutshell: Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article. If the latest outrage has no significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed not to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list. |
It happened again, didn't it? Donald Trump, "esteemed" former President of the United States, did something stupid/made a weird tweet/"owned the libs"/contradicted himself/etc. Again. Quick, let's add it to Wikipedia! Well... not so fast.
Why not?
As a former President, a lot of things that Donald Trump does are in fact covered on Wikipedia, but only in proportion to what
Wikipedia is not a diary. Even when an individual is notable, not all events they are involved in are. For example, news reporting about celebrities and sports figures can be very frequent and cover a lot of trivia, but using all these sources would lead to over-detailed articles that look like a diary.}}
Even if there is media coverage, if it's passing insubstantial coverage, consider leaving the topic alone, per
Typical complaints
"This topic totally qualifies by all your criteria! Why was my article deleted / redirected?"
- So maybe your topic is relevant, but that doesn't mean it deserves its own separate article. It may well be best served as a short paragraph in an existing article. Check out Presidency of Donald Trump and its many sub-articles – Immigration policy of Donald Trump, Donald Trump judicial appointment controversies, False or misleading statements by Donald Trump, and so forth. If the section gets really long, it can always be split back off to a separate article later.
"Why are you covering up this horrible crime Trump revealed?" (Or, alternatively...)
"Why was my section on this wild, obviously false accusation that shows Trump is crazy deleted?"
- An additional concern with Donald Trump is the "wild allegations made by Trump" problem. Per the biography of living persons policy, if the thing that Donald Trump did lately was "claim negative/criminal things about another living person", that topic needs to be handled very carefully. Sometimes, the allegation is both sufficiently covered in reliable sources as well as unavoidably a notable part of the person's experience (Joe Scarborough § Media careerfor an example), but in general, Wikipedia errs on the side of caution – even when the accuser is or was a world leader. Unlike many other leaders, he is not a "trusted" leader. Better to say nothing than to say something libelous.