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The result was delete. There is clear consensus not to have an article about this. A selective merger has been proposed, but does not find consensus here. Considering that
a talk page merge proposal has also already been closed as failed, I'm deleting instead of redirecting. Should consensus later emerge to cover this topic at
Donald Trump, as a testament to the quality of U.S. political discourse, the relevant material should be available on the talk page and can be copied from there. Sandstein 12:41, 11 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Definitely not encyclopedic content. If really necessary, the content could be merged into Donald Trump, however I vote to delete it completely, since it has absolutely no importance in the description of Mr. Trump and is (imo) on the verge of being considered harassment.
rayukk |
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Delete per nom. Trivial recentism. Imagine how many articles you can create for every nickname every celebrity has been called. The term 'unencyclopedic' has been used loosely before but it clearly applies here.
Spellcast (
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12:48, 3 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Just in the sense that since his campaign is currently big news, trivial unencyclopedic things from the past are being given undue attention here.
Spellcast (
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12:56, 3 April 2016 (UTC)reply
If I understand correctly, Spellcast isn't saying that the original use of the phrase was recent, but rather that its attention in popular culture and the media is recent. —
Granger (
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18:13, 3 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Merge somewhere – Of course, this is rather silly, but perhaps the mention can be merged to an appropriate article, as per
WP:PRESERVE relative to the decent coverage the topic has received. North America100014:00, 3 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete I agree, it is not encyclopedic at all, and it does indeed verges on harassment. I understand that is easy to view D. Trump negatively, but wikipedia should include comedic insults? Specially as a separate article? A lot of details form Trump's past are dug up, including "sensations" like "my date with Trump, " or "I showered with Trump" etc. This 30 years old expression would probably be forgotten if wasn't refreshed already, and soon will be forgotten by the media.
Bialosz (
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15:25, 3 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Comment@
Northamerica1000: Spellcast explained it very well already, in his comment abouttrivial recentivism, he made a good point.Discussion about powers of predictions, mine or yours ;), would be pointelss.
Bialosz (
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15:58, 3 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Merge & redirect. Per
Northamerica1000. The notoriety and duration of the comic "feud" and the pervasiveness of the nickname are substantial. It should be borne in mind that although right now Trump is primarily being viewed in political terms, he's also had a long career in the entertainment world, and this content is thoroughly appropriate in that context. (At some point it may be appropriate to spin off a separate article or articles on Trump's career in entertainment and his media profile.) In the meantime I think this material, written in an appropriately NPOV tone, is appropriately included. --
Arxiloxos (
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15:39, 3 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep I live (thankfully) an ocean away. I'm already familiar with this term. Some political insults are trivia, some stick. Some become defining of particular politicans: Nixon and Clinton, sweaty and unshaved or cigars - you all know instantly which goes with which. This term was coined thirty years ago and it's still in use. I can hear references to Trump's "dimensions" on my national evening news broadcast in a whole different country. This is a notable term with legs (I have no idea if he has short legs).
Andy Dingley (
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16:23, 3 April 2016 (UTC)reply
The "sweaty and unshaved (Nixon)" thing related to a history-changing event/public reaction when presidential political debate was newly broadcast on TV versus the radio. The "cigar" thing related to Bill Clinton's impeachment proceeding, again having significance relating to a historic event. Do you have any similar historic significance to offer re the "short-fingered" thing? (If not then I'd say your comparison argument breaks down.)
IHTS (
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23:41, 3 April 2016 (UTC)reply
We don't work by historical significance here, we work by the independent attention paid to it. This issue has garnered attention - fanned substantially by Trump himself. It also matters less if Nixon was unshaved or was even seen as looking unshaven - what matters is that the newspapers discussed it the day after. Clinton didn't smoke a cigar in the hearing, I don't even know if cigars were mentioned, but they were certainly mentioned in the press. The finger issue has received that same attention.
Andy Dingley (
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01:08, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Your two examples (do you even know what the cigar reference you made is about?; it appeared you did, then subsequently that you don't) had some historical import/significance, so was reasonable to assume you chose them in whole/part for that reason. Now you're saying historical significance is irrelevant to notability, and the only basis you give for notability is the thing got "attention". If I tell you that being in print or generating attention and therefore references isn't sufficient for WP:Notability, it just might just kill me by boredom. (So I won't.) That apparently is your single argument, without qualification towards editorial judgement (save the element of some degree of historical significance, which you said is a ghost).
IHTS (
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04:31, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Btw, is there a separate article on Nixon's beard-stubble? On Clinton's cigar? On any/all of the various alleged Presidential/Presidential-candidates' peccadilloes through the years?
Shearonink (
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01:27, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
I think I have established beyond any reasonable doubt that extremely derogatory memes can have articles in Wikipedia. We can have this kind of raw racist shit but somehow Trump's short fingers are immune? Makes zero sense - apparently the NOTABILITY standards for political memes are far more flexible than any of the "deletes" here are aware of.
Jytdog (
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08:19, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Does someone really need to do the cliche thing and link you
WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS? Maybe those subjects merit an article, maybe they don't. But the fact that they exist right now is not an argument that this one should.
Fyddlestix (
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13:11, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
User:Fyddlestix if you actually read what I wrote here I have explicitly said that I am not making an OTHERSTUFFEXISTS argument. What I said was that the community standards for NOTABILITY and what constitutes an "attack article" seems very low in this topic area. You are surely aware that various topic areas have their own tweaks on the basic NOTABILITY standards. People can disagree but do not distort what i am saying. Just don't do it.
Jytdog (
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19:11, 6 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Speedy Delete - First, it was created by a sockpuppet of a
blocked user. While other editors have edited the article,
the entirety of the content was contributed by a user who has been persistently promoting a comparison of Trump to Hitler. Even if none of that were true, the article should not exist independently of Mr. Trump's main biography, if at all. I suppose
WP:DUEWEIGHT suggests that some mention should be given in the biography, but
WP:NOTSCANDAL suggests that this type of content falls short of our goal of being a serious encyclopedia. Technically, the article should be deleted because
Acroterion has removed the attribution required by
WP:CC BY-SA, although I don't fault him for it.-
MrX17:29, 3 April 2016 (UTC)reply
I'm not really sure the attribution chain is any more compromised by the removal of the originating username than if intervening usernames are redacted. I'd propose starting over again if that's an issue, though it's a bit bureaucratic. I have no view on the actual notability issue here. Acroterion(talk)22:40, 3 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Speedy Delete - If this material is worthy of including in an encyclopedia at all (which I seriously question) it can be dealt within the main Trump article. Obvious troll is obvious, we shouldn't be giving crap like this the time of day.
Fyddlestix (
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17:51, 3 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete. I agree with Rayukk and Spellcast's arguments—at most, this might deserve a single sentence in the article
Donald Trump, if that. Moreover, if, as MrX says, the content of the article was created by a sockpuppet of a blocked user, it should be deleted for that reason as well. —
Granger (
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18:09, 3 April 2016 (UTC)reply
'strong keep i saw the posting at BLPN about this and came here just to check it out, thinking "hoax" or something but the number of legit sources that discuss this in depth was surprising to me. Meets GNG by a mile. About the G5 speedy tag, this has been worked over extensively (by MrX, ironically) and so the tag was no longer applicable - I am the one who removed it. That said, given the overwhelming "delete" response, i would of course accept a merge to the main Trump article.
Jytdog (
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Jytdog (
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Jytdog (
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07:19, 7 April 2016 (UTC))reply
No, I'm pretty sure that's not how it works, but in case there's any question, I do not accept the content added by the banned blocked user.-
MrX21:56, 3 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete The topic is name calling with Graydon Carter is the perpetrator, Trump the victim.
WP:AVOIDVICTIM says in part: Wikipedia editors must not act, intentionally or otherwise, in a way that amounts to participating in or prolonging the victimization.Talk toSageGreenRider19:49, 3 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep There are plenty of sources discussing this, which satisfies
WP:GNG. As long as the article doesn't focus unduly on the current news, it's not a recentism issue. For a similar case, see "
Confessions of a Republican", an old topic which has also been brought up in reference to Trump's current campaign.
clpo13(
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Comment. If this phrase is of enduring WP/encyclopedic interest and noteworthiness and was created by Spy Magazine back in the 1980s - over 30 years ago - to refer to Trump then why was an article on the subject just created yesterday? The phrase was created by Graydon Carter and re:
this Carter/VF essay Carter has continually repeated the phrase because he has the VF pulpit and admits he employs the phrase as a way to jab at Trump. Who wrote all the captions in the VF column I refer to above?...Vanity Fair/Graydon Carter. Why should Wikipedia give credence to an infighting wrestling/schoolyard shouting-match between Carter and Trump?
Shearonink (
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22:57, 3 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete IMO this could have been speedied per G10 as an attack page (recognizing that ridicule is a form of attack). A merge or redirect is out of the question. --
MelanieN (
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00:01, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Why does the Trump article need a sentence on this? It seems like it certainly doesn't need this kind of non notable attack material added to it. --
Malerooster (
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02:28, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Speedy delete with no merge. Insults aimed at currently running political candidates are very common, rarely notable, and never encyclopedic. This is no exception. --
Guy Macon (
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05:16, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
That was mainly an attempt to remove sources and strengthen the argument that the article has notability. If you go through my edit history, I have done the same for other pages as well, and after three sources that say the same thing, nothing is really gained when you have ten sources that all state the same fact.
Kevin Rutherford (
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16:55, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
"an attempt to remove sources and strengthen the argument that the article has notability. "
Excess sources always impress that the case for notability was weak to begin with. So to weed them is productive & helpful towards making any case of notability. What's nonsense is your accuse of nonsense.
IHTS (
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04:39, 5 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Comment: If this is to be kept at all, it should either redirect to Spy Magazine or to Graydon Carter's article. This seems to mostly center around a "feud" between the two that includes the phrase but isn't limited to it. Most of the coverage on this specific phrase is relatively recent despite it being used in the 80s, as it's from the past few months with the exception of a handful of articles written in October of last year like
this one.
Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。)08:52, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Speedy delete. Come on, in a supposedly international encyclopedia? It's ridiculous. Also having an article with this name is intrinsically a BLP vio.
Bishonen |
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(My god, hasn't the Ed Miliband bacon sandwich article been deleted yet?) OK, I expect you're right; this actually is the US- + GB-pedia, not an "international encyclopedia" at all. However, I don't understand why you and other keep !voters argue per "well sourced", as the nomination is nothing to do with sources. I don't see a single delete !vote complaining about sources. Massively sourced doesn't help if something's undue, trivial, and insulting to a living person.
Bishonen |
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I hear you kind of. But again it seems that for politicians that standard is very very low. Again, Barack the Magic Negro which has never been AfDed and was even on the front page as a DYK. That is WP's standards for this sort of thing. (as for the global thing, Trump is likely going to be the republican candidate and the world media is very aware of that) Trump has spent most of his career in the tabloids and this description stuck to him then and is still stuck to him. I cannot see how it is even close to being as demeaning as Barack the Magic Negro. I am baffled - really baffled - by anyone freaking out on "Short-Fingered Vulgarian" in light of the standards we have.
Jytdog (
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10:49, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Yes, we went through this nonsense in 2012 (and probably 2008 and before), and I argued for deletion for pretty much every one of these things last time around too. Wikipedia should make an effort to stay above the fray and not act as a proxy battleground for these politicians and their supporters. I know; it's hard to type that without laughing. —Torchiesttalkedits12:43, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
This isn't funny or cute to me, and this is why I don't edit about politics. This phrase is sourced out the wazoo by multiple people (not just Grayson) for nearly 30 years, and people are having a cow. But Barack the Magic Negro is just fine and hey DYK worthy. Barak. The... Magic. Negro. A proud, proud, Wikipedia article indeed. A good reminder for me to stay the hell out of topics where there are poor sources and active online communities. There is no reason here. Ya'all will do as you will do.
Jytdog (
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12:52, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
I'm not saying it's cute or funny, I'm saying these articles are ridiculous. What's funny is the suggestion that WP will somehow not get sucked into political battles. I knew it was impossible when I said it, but it's still something to strive for. If it makes you feel any better, we did manage to
deleteObama Eats Dogs. —Torchiesttalkedits15:13, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete as an attack page. I'm no fan of Trump at all, but that's straight-up an attack page from a non-reliable source who's only purpose is to deride Donald Trump. Delete and salt !
KoshVorlon15:50, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Selective merge. Per QuackGuru, we should migrate one sentence over, with a reference, then delete the article under this title per
WP:BLP. --
Jayron3216:55, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
BLP states that we can't say critical things without sourcing that they already have an independent notability outside WP. This does. It has had such for thirty years.
Andy Dingley (
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17:21, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
WP:UNDUE notes that Wikipedia should not give more prominence to a concept inside Wikipedia than it receives outside. Mentioning the concept in Donald Trumps article would be in line with the relative importance of this. Dedicating an entire, stand-alone article is a BLP violation of its own self because of the undue level of prominence it gives to a minor issue. --
Jayron3219:57, 4 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Merge or Delete Not worthy of a stand alone article and if deemed notable enough can easily be covered at the main page in a simple sentence.
AIRcorn(talk)06:57, 5 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Do not simply delete. A selective merge would be a reasonable compromise. There's ample RS to demonstrate that the phrase has notability and is not just a recent creation.
Tricky Dick is likewise a redirect to Richard Nixon, with a single sentence and cite for this usage.
Shawn in Montreal (
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19:58, 5 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Selective merge and I'm noting that even some editors voting Delete are saying that they'd be okay with including a sentence or two on the main Trump article (under media coverage?) about this. I don't think the subject warrants a stand-alone article (and deletion of those Obama articles should be considered, too) but the fact is that this reference to short fingers comes up and it could be an element of the Trump campaign that readers are looking for clarification of. It would be BLP violation if Wikipedia stated Trump had these fingers while I think it's fine to include a mention of Grayson's term to indicate Trump's frosty relationship with NYC papers and magazines over the past three decades. It's part of his public profile, it's a feud that Trump brings up himself. It's the feud that is notable, not what Trumps fingers are like that matters. So, I vote for a neutrally worded, explanatory statement on the Trump bio would benefit readers, whatever their political leanings.
LizRead!Talk!19:58, 5 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete. We do not need a separate article about every individual nickname, pejorative or otherwise, that somebody comes up with for a public figure.
Bearcat (
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20:46, 6 April 2016 (UTC)reply
delete and merge into brief mention in Trump article per what everybody says. I am finding the arguments here compelling and willing to accept that NOTABILITY is not applied with lower standards to political figures. I will be interested to see if standards are really consistent here. See
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barack the Magic Negro --
Jytdog (
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07:19, 7 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Strong Delete and Salt Breaks BLP rules, entirely non encyclopedic, frivolous, has little informational value, and breaks the Letter and Spirit of Wikipedia.
scope_creep (
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12:46, 7 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete at most this deserves a line in the main article. Although the reference may have 'gone round in circles' for umpteen years. It has not been the subject of any significant events/coverage etc.
Pincrete (
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21:19, 7 April 2016 (UTC)reply
Merge This is a real thing, it has been talked about for over 30 years, there are abundant sources. It is now relevant to current events. It is true and it is verifiable. While it may not justify an article I don't think the content of this article should go down the memory hole. It should find a home in another article.
HighInBC14:01, 8 April 2016 (UTC)reply
merge very briefly. -- NOT NEWS. The principle is NOT NEWS, and this type of article is one of the reasons why we have and need that policy. I would apply it not just to this article, but to almost all similar, except those with actually proven historical or literary significance. Almost all political insults have -- and are intended to haver -- only an ephemeral significance, and the middle of an election campaign is not the place to judge the permanent value. DGG (
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01:34, 11 April 2016 (UTC)reply
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