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Hi, I was wondering if you go into a little more detail on why you reverted my edits on changing to outgoing rather than incumbent. The reason why I put those in is because a new president and vice president has just been elected so since they are leaving office soon, putting them as a lame duck seems to make the most sense. I'd be willing to hear your arguments on keeping the incumbent on both the president and VP pages. I'm not sure if there was a time that we used the term outgoing for politicians leaving office, but it just doesn't make sense to keep incumbent there. ] (]) 16:10, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, I was wondering if you go into a little more detail on why you reverted my edits on changing to outgoing rather than incumbent. The reason why I put those in is because a new president and vice president has just been elected so since they are leaving office soon, putting them as a lame duck seems to make the most sense. I'd be willing to hear your arguments on keeping the incumbent on both the president and VP pages. I'm not sure if there was a time that we used the term outgoing for politicians leaving office, but it just doesn't make sense to keep incumbent there. Interstellarity (talk) 16:10, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

But they are the incumbents. We don't need any further editorializing. Leave that to the headline writers. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:12, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

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I just blocked the creator of this as a UPE, mainly due to the shenanigans with the image at Stella Velon (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (it was deleted, then the licence miraculously changed at flickr). Given that, I feel quite apprehensive about us having such a negative article written by them. I'd ordinarily move it to draft, but I thought I would drop you a line since you had already restored it. SmartSE (talk) 22:34, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

There's so much crap from both sides, it's hard to tell what to do. If you don't think that WSJ article indicates notability strongly enough, go ahead and move it, see if anyone cares enough to fix the issues. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 22:41, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
Indeed! I haven't looked at it much, but I guess it's a case of whether the subject meets WP:BIO or whether the "scandal" meets WP:EVENT (I'm using quotes because I can't see any sources using that). Certainly NY post was clearly reporting it all as allegations as of August '24 which is very different to how our article portrays it. It definitely needs attention, but I don't have time to research it in depth, so I think drafting it and dropping some notes around is the best course. SmartSE (talk) 22:57, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
Ok, yes, that sounds like a good way forward. Thanks! --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 00:06, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
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